SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST-SELLERS

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST-SELLERS

FICTION / BAY AREA Weeks This Last on Week Week List
1) 1 4 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic; 435 pages; $19.95): Harry's third wizardly adventure finds him as winning as ever.
2) 3 18 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic; 320 pages; $17.95): Further hair-raising adventures of everyone's favorite pint-size wizard.
3) 4 3 A STAR CALLED HENRY, Roddy Doyle (Viking; 352 pages; $24.95): Exuberant account of Ireland's fight for independence.
4) 2 40 HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER'S STONE, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic; 320 pages; $16.95): An enchanting fantasy about an ill-treated orphan who discovers that he is a powerful wizard.
5) 5 5 IN PURSUIT OF THE PROPER SINNER, Elizabeth George (Bantam; 656 pages; $25.95): British detectives Lynley and Havers deal with personal issues.
6) 12 3 BIG TROUBLE, Dave Barry (Putnam; 320 pages; $23.95): Even the acknowledgment page is funny in the Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist's foray into the Florida absurdist crime novel scene.
7) -- 1 PERSONAL INJURIES, Scott Turow (FSG; 384 pages; $27): In Turow's hands this tale of crooked lawyers becomes a suspenseful meditation on morality.
8) -- 1 HARD TIME, Sara Paretsky (Delacorte; 384 pages; $24.95): After a five-year absence, Chicago P.I. V.I. Warshawski returns, as irascible as ever.
9) 6 19 THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING, Melissa Bank (Viking; 288 pages; $23.95): A clever series of stories follows a young woman's search for love.
10) -- 1 THE LAMORNA WING, Martha Grimes (Viking; 364 pages; $22.95): The aristocratic Melrose Plant takes center stage in this mystery, set mainly in moody, atmospheric Cornwall.
11) -- 1 WHY SHE LEFT US, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (HarperCollins; 295 pages; $24): A Japanese American woman abandons her daughter during World War II.
12) 11 20 CRYPTONOMICON, Neal Stephenson (Avon; 928 pages; $27.50): This ambitious tale brings a geek-chic sensibility to the espionage novel.
13) 9 26 THE HOURS, Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 224 pages; $22): Virginia Woolf is a character in this elegant Pulitzer Prize-winning homage to her.
14) -- 8 BLACK NOTICE, Patricia Cornwell (Viking; 288 pages; $23.95): Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta once again does battle with evil.
15) -- 1 THE LANGUAGE OF THREADS, Gail Tsukiyama (St. Martin's; 288 pages; $23.95): The sequel to El Cerrito author's "Women of the Silk" finds heroine Pei struggling to survive in war-torn Hong Kong.
------------------------------------------------------------ NONFICTION / BAY AREA Weeks This Last on Week Week List
1) 1 2 'TIS, Frank McCourt (Scribner; 367 pages; $26): The sequel to "Angela's Ashes" finds McCourt in America, still poor and cranky, still a terrific storyteller.
2) 2 85 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, Mitch Albom (Doubleday; 192 pages; $19.95): A man rediscovers his dying professor during their weekly meetings.
3) -- 1 DUTCH, Edmund Morris (Random House; 864 pages; $35): Innovative biography in which the author inserts himself as a fictional character.
4) 7 45 THE ART OF HAPPINESS, Howard Cutler and the Dalai Lama (Putnam; 288 pages; $23.95): The Tibetan spiritual leader discusses his views on life and love.
5) -- 1 HITLER'S POPE, John Cornwell (Viking; 512 pages; $29.95): A Roman Catholic historian's research finds that Pius XII was an ally of the Germans during World War II.
6) 11 3 THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD, Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (Basic; 720 pages; $32.50): A startling expose of Soviet foreign intelligence efforts in the West by the former chief archivist for the KGB.
7) 4 8 ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Dalai Lama (Riverhead; 237 pages; $24.95): A gentle plea for living more compassionate and less self-centered lives from the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.
8) 8 3 ISAAC'S STORM, Erik Larson (Crown; 320 pages; $25): Engrossing account of the worst disaster in American history, the Galveston, Texas, storm of 1900.
9) -- 1 THE GOOD SON, Michael Gurian (Putnam; 400 pages; $24.95): Family therapist's guide to teaching moral values to boys.
10) -- 2 THE CODE BOOK, Simon Singh (Doubleday; 288 pages; $24.95): A fascinating history of cryptography by the author of "Fermat's Enigma," with emphasis on the battle between code makers and code breakers and on our need for privacy.
11) 6 6 CHEZ PANISSE CAFE COOKBOOK, Alice Waters (HarperCollins; 384 pages; $35): More incomparable recipes from the Berkeley restaurateur, along with her reflections on food, art and the environment.
12) 3 14 THE NUDIST ON THE LATE SHIFT, Po Bronson (Random House; 288 pages; $25): Lively look at Silicon Valley by the San Francisco author of "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest."
13) -- 2 GENERATION J, Lisa Schiffman (HarperSF; 176 pages; $18): A young San Francisco woman's search for the meaning of Jewishness in her life.
14) 12 14 THE SILICON BOYS, David A. Kaplan (Morrow; 352 pages; $27): A witty profile of the humorless and greedy high-tech mecca.
15) -- 7 THE PROMISE OF SLEEP, William Dement (Delacorte; 447 pages; $24.95): A noted authority tells why we need more sleep and how to get it.
------------------------------------------------------------ QUALITY PAPERBACKS / BAY AREA Weeks This Last on Week Week List
1) 1 19 ANGELA'S ASHES, Frank McCourt (Touchstone; 368 pages; $14): The writer's wretched Irish childhood is recalled with lyrical gusto.
2) 4 2 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, Barbara Kingsolver (HarperPerennial; 560 pages; $14): Epic novel of politics and religion in post-colonial Africa.
3) 2 4 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic; 450 pages; $5.99): An enchanting fantasy about an ill-treated orphan who discovers that he is a powerful wizard.
4) 5 37 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, Arthur Golden (Vintage; 448 pages; $14): A retired geisha recalls her life.
5) 3 5 THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, Simon Winchester (HarperPerennial; 256 pages; $13): How an insane murderer helped produce the OED.
6) -- 1 THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS, Leonard Shlain (Arkana; 480 pages; $14.95): A Mill Valley surgeon says the development of writing helped to subjugate women.
7) 7 28 A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR, John Irving (Ballantine; 560 pages; $14.95): A sprawling novel of a writer's life by the author of "The World According to Garp."
8) 8 23 THE PILOT'S WIFE, Anita Shreve (Back Bay; 304 pages; $13.95): A woman discovers who her husband was after he is killed in a plane crash.
9) -- 1 THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1999, Amy Tan (Houghton Mifflin; 320 pages; $13): Editor Tan's picks include Rick Bass, Junot Diaz and Lorrie Moore.
10) -- 1 KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST, Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin; 384 pages; $15): Wrenching history of the Belgian colonization of the Congo.
------------------------------------------------------------ The Bay Area best-seller lists are compiled each Tuesday from a telephone survey of booksellers whose reports are weighted according to store volume. .
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