FictionLE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson. (Dutton: $23.95)...

Fiction

LE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson. (Dutton: $23.95) Americans abroad struggle with the barbs and mores of French society. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 2

SILENT WITNESS by Richard North Patterson. (Knopf: $25.95) Attorney Tony Lord faces a killer in his hometown and old memories of his first love’s death (3). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 4

YO! by Julia Alvarez. (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: $18.95) Always under the microscope of their family’s successful author, Yolanda, the Garcias now reveal Yo’s secrets. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

TOTAL CONTROL by David Baldacci. (Warner: $24) A successful lawyer learns that her husband may have faked his own death in a fiery plane crash (2). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 2

HORNET’S NEST by Patricia D. Cornwell. (Putnam: $25.95) (1). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 3

TRUNK MUSIC by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown: $23.95) Odd clues from a Mafia hit send Harry Bosch to Las Vegas and into the middle of a deadly scheme. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 4

LOVE INVENTS US by Amy Bloom. (Random House: $21) The love history of a woman, from shy young girl to middle-aged single mother. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 2

ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $24.95) (15). Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 10

GONE FISHIN’ by Walter Mosley. (Black Classic Press: $22). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 3

SILENT HONOR by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte: $24.95) A successful Japanese family’s world is overturned by World War II and confinement in a relocation center. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 9

Nonfiction

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt. (Scribner: $24) A memoir of childhood in a gloomy Irish city (5). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 15

MASTERING THE ZONE: The Art of Achieving SuperHealth by Barry Sears. (ReganBooks: $24) (3). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 4

PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham. (Knopf: $29.95) A long look back on childhood, personal tragedy and steering the Washington Post through stormy political times. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. (Warner: $17.95) A collection of meditations to take women through a year of self-discovery (1). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 25

EVIDENCE DISMISSED: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Simpson by Dets. Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter, as told to Dan E. Moldea. (Pocket: $24). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

A REPORTER’S LIFE by Walter Cronkite. (Alfred A. Knopf: $26.95) (4)*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 8

THE MANSION ON THE HILL: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerce by Fred Goodman. (Times Books: $25). Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. (Scribner: $25) The FBI investigator applies his criminal profiling skills to sensational news incidents from recent years. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

CONVERSATIONS WITH MY AGENT by Rob Long. (Dutton: $15.95) Mirth and misadventure in the entertainment industry. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 3

THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22) (7)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 47

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. SHE’S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb. (Pocket: $14)

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

3. THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje. (Vintage: $11)

4. ABSOLUTE POWER by David Baldacci. (Warner: $7.50)

5. ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard. (Faber & Faber: $9.95)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1997 LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT GUIDE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95)

2. THE RULES: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider. (Warner: $14.95)

3. THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron. (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam: $13.95)*

4. THE COLOR OF WATER: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride. (Riverhead: $12)

5. INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer. (Anchor: $12.95)

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