Southern California Rating:FICTION1 HARRY POTTER AND THE...

Southern California Rating:

FICTION

1 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic: $16.95) Unhappy at home, a young boy discovers that he is a great magician.

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 10

2 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books: $17.95) Harry risks his life to solve a mystery at the Hogwarts School.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 12

3 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic: $19.95) Sirius Black--an escaped convict--is on the loose, and he’s after Harry.

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 12

4 TIMELINE by Michael Crichton (Random House: $26.95) Investigators battle mad lords, crazed giants and peasant bandits after time-traveling to 14th century France.

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 5

5 ATLANTIS FOUND by Clive Cussler (Putnam: $26.95) Adventurer Dirk Pitt unravels the mystery of an ancient civilization while fanatics hatch a plot to dominate the world.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2

6 VOID MOON by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $24.95) A parolee with a tormented past robs a Las Vegas high roller who turns out to be a psychotic mobster.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3

7 DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende (HarperCollins: $26) A young woman escapes from the bonds of her youthful passion to Gold Rush California.

Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 11

8 THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP by Stephen J. Cannell (William Morrow: $25) Lives of a college student, hobos and scientists collide after a biological accident in a small Texas town.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 3

9 BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY edited by Katrina Kenison and John Updike (Houghton Mifflin: $28) Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Raymond Carver and Co.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 19

10 HUNTING BADGER by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins: $26) Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee chase after militiamen who pulled off a heist. Reviewed by Anthony Day, Page 10.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 5

11 DISGRACE by J.M. Coetzee (Viking: $23.95) Fired from academe, a South African professor pursues the simple life on his daughter’s farm but finds danger in the post-apartheid world.

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 5

12 BLUE AT THE MIZZEN by Patrick O’Brian (W.W. Norton: $24) The continuing maritime adventures of Aubrey and Maturin in the age of Napoleon.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 7

13 PERSONAL INJURIES by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27) Dirty lawyers, dirty judges and one equally soiled informant face off in fictional Kindle County.

Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 13

14 DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Bantam: $27.50) This prequel to Frank Herbert’s epic “Dune” series describes turmoil in a faraway galactic empire.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

15 BIG TROUBLE by Dave Barry (Putnam: 23.95) The male ego runs amok in the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist’s first novel, set in the fabled world of Miami’s vice.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

NONFICTION

1 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom (Doubleday: $19.95) A sportswriter’s empowering story about his weekly visits to see an older dying friend.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 102

2 CENTURY edited by Bruce Bernard (Phaidon: $49.95) A hundred years in the history of our world, with images, photos and documents to boot.

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 4

3 THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS by Tom Brokaw (Random House: $19.95) More stories of American heroism during the ‘30s and ‘40s in this sequel to “The Greatest Generation.”

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2

4 ‘TIS by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $26) A young McCourt arrives from Ireland in New York, with all its peril and promise, in this sequel to “Angela’s Ashes.”

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 14

5 THE CENTURY by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Doubleday: $60) The story of our last 100 years as told through the experiences of ordinary people.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 26

6 GALILEO’S DAUGHTER by Dava Sobel (Walker & Co.: $25) The story of the famous scientist and his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 8

7 LIFE: OUR CENTURY IN PICTURES edited by Richard B. Stolley and Tony Chiu ( Bulfinch: $60) More than 770 images chronicle the century’s major moments.

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 2

8 GUINNESS 2000 BOOK OF RECORDS by the editors of Guinness Media (Guinness Records: $25.95) The “millennium edition” features updated records in a host of categories.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

9 AND THE CROWD GOES WILD narrated by Bob Costas, edited by Joe Garner (Sourcebooks: $49.95) Sports history’s greatest moments, with accompanying CD recordings.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

10 CONVERSATIONS WITH WILDER by Cameron Crowe (Alfred A. Knopf: $35) The “Jerry Maguire” director coaxes Billy Wilder to reveal the secrets behind his movie hits and flops.

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 6

11 HOTEL LACHAPELLE by David LaChapelle (Bulfinch: $60) Surreal visions of Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marilyn Manson and others captured by the hip photographer.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

12 WHERE DID I GO RIGHT? by Bernie Brillstein with David Rensin (Little, Brown: $24.95) A star manager dishes dirt and describes his rise from the William Morris mail room.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 5

13 JOHN GLENN by John Glenn with Nick Taylor (Bantam: $27) A life of dreams, lived in the clouds and on the ground, by the first American to orbit the Earth.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

14 WOMEN by Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag (Random House: $75) A rap artist, an astronaut, Supreme Court justices and others populate this book of photos and essay.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 4

15 DESIRE OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS by Thomas Cahill (Doubleday: $24.95) How a religious sect known as the Jesus Movement swept across the Roman Empire and the world.

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 2

PAPERBACKS

FICTION

1 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine: $5.99) A young wizard-in-training.

2 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Vintage: $14) The life and loves of a teahouse entertainer in Kyoto.

3 SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson (Vintage: $14) Turmoil on Puget Sound during a fisherman’s trial.

4 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperPerennial: $14) A missionary family’s ordeals.

5 THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith (Vintage: $13) A cunning young sociopath goes to Europe.

6 THE PRODIGAL SPY by Joseph Kanon (Dell: $7.50) A young man fights Cold War demons.

7 HANNA’S DAUGHTERS by Marianne Fredriksson (Ballantine: 12.95) Swedish women during a century of love and loss.

8 THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco: $13) A shepherd’s journey to find gold in Egypt.

9 THE HAMMER OF EDEN by Ken Follett (Fawcett: $7.99) Terrorists threaten to cause earthquakes in California.

10 LOST IN TRANSLATION by Nicole Mones (Delacorte: $12.95) Archeologists search for Peking Man’s remains in China.

PAPERBACKS

NONFICTION

1 ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Touchstone: $14) Overcoming an Irish childhood during the Depression.

2 THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN by Simon Winchester (HarperPerennial: $13) A madman with a flair for words.

3 WORLD ALMANAC & BOOK OF FACTS 2000 (World Almanac: $10.95) Includes “Countdown to the Millennium.”

4 SINS OF THE CITY by Jim Heimann (Chronicle Books: $18.95) L.A. noir photographs from the ‘20s to the ‘50s.

5 BLIND MAN’S BLUFF by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (HarperPerennial: $7.99) American submarine espionage.

6 A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson (Broadway: $13) A funny memoir and a meditation on American wilderness.

7 THE TERRIBLE HOURS by Peter Maas (HarperCollins: $13) One man’s efforts to rescue a lost submarine.

8 LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME by James W. Loewen (Touchstone: $14) Errors taught as facts in school.

9 GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton: $14.95) The part played by this triad in history.

10 EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS by Peter Biskind (Simon and Schuster: $15) How ‘70s filmmakers saved Hollywood.

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.