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Fiction

THE TENTH INSIGHT: Holding the Vision by James Redfield. (Warner: $19.95.) One more message about saving civilization that builds on the discoveries in “The Celestine Prophecy.”. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

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: 1; Week on List: 4

MALICE by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte: $24.95.) A young woman struggles with memories of incest and murder.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 3

PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.) A fictionalized account of ’92 Democratic primaries by an insider.(3)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 14

THE DEBT TO PLEASURE by John Lanchester (Henry Holt: $20.) A tale of murder and sibling jealousy.. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 2

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace. (Little, Brown & Co.: $29.95.) Obsessed consumers populate this satire of the near future.. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 11

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Lane Smith. (Knopf: $16.) A child’s journey to the center of an immense peach.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

SPRING COLLECTION by Judith Krantz. (Crown: $24.) Romance and family reconciliation acted out in the Parisian and New York fashion worlds.(6). Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 5

FIRST KING OF SHANNARA by Terry Brooks. (Del Rey/Ballantine: $23.50.) A look back at the early history of Shannara and the fate of the Druids.(4)*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 2

THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.)(5)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 14

Nonfiction

IN CONTEMPT by Christopher Darden with Jess Walter. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $26.)(1)*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 6

THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.) An energy-building plan focusing on burning body fat.(6). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 8

SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. (Warner: $17.95.) A collection of self-discovery meditations for women.(2). Southern California ranking: 3; 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: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 3

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: 5; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 14

MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, PhD. (HarperCollins: $23.) (3)*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 111

ELIZABETH: A Biography of Britain’s Queen by Sarah Bradford. (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux: $30.). Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(5)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 55

UNDAUNTED COURAGE: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster: $30.)(9). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 7

DEPTH TAKES A HOLIDAY: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles by Sandra Tsing Loh (Riverhead: $22.95.) The absurdities that Angelenos know so well.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

Paperbacks: FICTION

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

2. GOOSEBUMPS #43: THE BEAST FROM THE EAST by R.L. Stine. (Scholastic: $3.99.)*

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

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

5. LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART by Mary Higgins Clark. (Pocket: $7.50.)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

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

2. CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL edited by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)*

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

4. A 3RD SERVING OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)

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

Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. National hardcover rankings (in parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly. An asterisk (*) indicates that the book is also available in audio (source: Sound Audio Books Distributing, Agoura Hills).