FictionPRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.)...

Fiction

PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.) A fictionalized account of the 1992 Democratic primaries by an insider.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 12

MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster: $24.) Photographer seeks stepmother’s killer among Rhode Island’s elite.(1). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 2

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ENEMY by Elizabeth George. (Bantam: $23.95.) A journalist and a politico face the kidnappers of their love child.(5)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 4

NEANDERTHAL by John Darnton. (Random: $24.) Primitive precursors to homo sapiens are found in a remote part of the world.. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

MALICE by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte: $24.95.) A young woman struggles with memories of incest and murder.. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

THE DEBT TO PLEASURE by John Lanchester (Henry Holt: $20.) A tale of murder and sibling jealousy, told by a brilliant gourmand on a French tour.. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 11

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace. (Little, Brown & Co.: $29.95.) Obsessed consumers populate this satire of the near future.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 10

ABSOLUTE POWER by David Baldacci. (Warner: $22.95.) Murder among the elite in the nation’s capital.(9)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 7

SPRING COLLECTION by Judith Krantz. (Crown: $24.)New York and Paris fashion worlds provide the setting for a billionaire’s plan to reconcile with his daughter.(6)*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 4

THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.) (7)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 12

Nonfiction

IN CONTEMPT by Christopher Darden with Jess Walter. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $26.)A life well-acquainted with racism and civil rights leading up to the Simpson trial.(1). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 4

DREAMS INTO ACTION: Getting What You Want by Milton Katselas. (Dove: $19.95.) Turning invisible wishes into concrete realities.. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.) An energy-building plan focusing on burning body fat.(9). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 6

YOU’LL NEVER MAKE LOVE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany as told to Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel and Joanne Parrent. (Dove Books: $22.95.). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 12

THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE by Robert L. Shapiro with Larkin Warren. (Warner: $24.95.) Defending his position in the Simpson trial.(8)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 2

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, one day at a time.(4). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 2

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(7)*. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 53

BLOOD SPORT: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House by James B. Stewart. (Simon & Schuster: $25.)(2)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 5

HITLER’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. (Knopf: $30.) How anti-Semitism at all levels of society created the Holocaust.(13). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 2

UNDAUNTED COURAGE: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster: $30.)(6). Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 6

Paperbacks: FICTION

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

2. THE GREEN MILE PART ONE: THE TWO DEAD GIRLS by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)

3. GOOSEBUMPS #42: EGG MONSTER FROM MARS by R.L. Stine. (Scholastic: $3.99.)

4. LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler. (Fawcett: $12.)

5. MOO by Jane Smiley. (Ballantine: $12.)*

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

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

2. THERE’S TREASURE EVERYWHERE: A Calvin & Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson. (Andrews & McMeel: $12.95.)

3. GOD: A Biography by Jack Miles. (Vintage: $15.)

4. THE LIARS’ CLUB by Mary Karr. (Penguin: $11.95.)

5. SOUL MATES by Thomas Moore. (HarperCollins: $13.)*

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