Fiction

Southern California ranking: (1) THE MOOR’S LAST SIGH by Salman Rushdie. (Pantheon: $25.) The rise and fall of a Portuguese family in India through four generations.

Last Week: -

Weeks on List: 1

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Southern California ranking: (2) THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.) A beautiful journalist escapes New York to find love on the range in Montana.(3)

Last Week: 2

Weeks on List: 16

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Southern California ranking: (3) THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES by Amy Tan. (Putnam: $24.95.) Another story of a woman caught between East and West.(7)

Last Week: 8

Weeks on List: 10

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Southern California ranking: (4) THE CHRISTMAS BOX by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster: $12.95.) A young family learns the true meaning of Christmas.(1)

Last Week: 3

Weeks on List: 7

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Southern California ranking: (5) THE LOST WORLD by Michael Crichton. (Knopf: $25.95.) What’s extinction? Six years after Jurassic Park, and something has survived.(2)

Last Week: 5

Weeks on List: 14

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Southern California ranking: (6) THE TIGER IN THE GRASS by Harriet Doerr. (Viking: $19.95.) Mexico again figures largely in this latest story collection by the author of “Consider This, Senora.”

Last Week: 6

Weeks on List: 5

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Southern California ranking: (7) IN THE CUT by Susanna Moore. (Knopf: $21.) An erotic thriller from the feminine point of view.

Last Week: 7

Weeks on List: 5

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Southern California ranking: (8) FIVE DAYS IN PARIS by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte: $15.95.) Business exec and senator’s wife remedy their boring lives back home with some “infidelite conjugale.”(4)

Last Week: 4

Weeks on List: 6

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Southern California ranking: (9) THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE by Umberto Eco. (Harcourt Brace & Company: $25.) A tale of antique navigation, science and the musings of a 17th century sailor.(12)

Last Week: 10

Weeks on List: 3

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Southern California ranking: (10) SHOCK WAVE by Clive Cussler. (Simon & Schuster: $25.) Adventurer Dirk Pitt crosses swords with diamond miners to stop the killing of dolphins and seals.(5)

Last Week: -

Weeks on List: 1

Nonfiction

Southern California ranking: (1) THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(6)

Last Week: 2

Weeks on List: 39

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Southern California ranking: (2) THE WAY OF THE WIZARD: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life by Deepak Chopra. (Crown/Harmony: $15.)(8)

Last Week: -

Weeks on List: 1

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Southern California ranking: (3) THE ROAD AHEAD by Bill Gates. (Penguin: $29.95.) One tycoon’s vision of the computer future.(1)

Last Week: 1

Weeks on List: 5

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Southern California ranking: (4) LONGITUDE by Dava Sobel. (Walker and Company: $18.) How the 18th century invention of the chronometer solved major ocean navigation problems.(8)

Last Week: 8

Weeks on List: 2

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Southern California ranking: (5) MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, Ph.D. (HarperCollins: $23.) Interpreting relationships for Martians and Venusians.(5)

Last Week: 9

Weeks on List: 96

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Southern California ranking: (6) EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by Daniel Goleman. (Bantam Doubleday Dell: $23.95.)(9)

Last Week: 6

Weeks on List: 13

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Southern California ranking: (7) MISS AMERICA by Howard Stern. (ReganBooks: $27.50.) America’s No.1 “shock jock” pokes more fun at the world, plus nifty color photos.(2)

Last Week: 5

Weeks on List: 7

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Southern California ranking: (8) CHARLES KURALT’S AMERICA by Charles Kuralt. (Putnam: $24.95.) Bringing to page what he did on TV.(4)

Last Week: 3

Weeks on List: 9

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Southern California ranking: (9) MY AMERICAN JOURNEY by Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico. (Random House: $25.95.) The modest beginnings of an American hero.(3)

Last Week: 7

Weeks on List: 14

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Southern California ranking: (10) MR. WILSON’S CABINET OF WONDER by Lawrence Weschler. (Pantheon: $21.) A look at the odd scientific world of the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Last Week: -

Weeks on List: 2

Rankings are based on The Times’ poll of local bookstores. National rankings (parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly. For information on Times bestsellers, call (213) 237-4336 after 11 a.m. on Wednesdays.

Paperbacks

FICTION

1. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson. (Vintage: $12.)

2. THE RAINMAKER by John Grisham. (Bantam: $7.99.)

3. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen. (Signet/NAL: $5.99.)

4. THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields. (Penguin: $10.95.)

5. WAITING TO EXHALE by Terry McMillan. (Pocket: $6.99.)

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NONFICTION

1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT GUIDE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

2. THE CALVIN AND HOBBES TENTH ANNIVERSARY BOOK by Bill Watterson. (Andrews & McMeel: $14.95.)

3. THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron. (Putnam: $13.95.)

4. INNER SIMPLICITY: One Hundred Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul by Elaine St. James. (Hyperion: $7.95.)

5. THE FAR SIDE GALLERY 5 by Gary Larson. (Andrews & McMeel: $12.95.)

Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. For information on Times bestsellers, call (213) 237-4336 after 11 a.m. on Wednesdays.