THE BOYS OF SUMMER

Where'd you go, women readers? Suddenly, the mass-market paperback list is bristling with ostensibly male-oriented thrillers, providing enough crooks, spies, murder, and mayhem to keep a whole army happy. The first six authors in this testosterone-rich lineup: Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, Scott Turow, John le Carre, John Grisham, and Carl Hiaasen, with new kid on the block Scott Smith at No. 7 and old hand Robert Ludlum at No. 10. So where are the fat, old-fashioned romance paperbacks everyone associates with summertime? There's nary a Danielle Steel nor a Barbara Taylor Bradford in sight. Guess the guys are finally demanding equal beach time. Weeks Fiction List 1 The Chamber John Grisham, Doubleday, $24.95 6 2 The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield, Warner, $17.95 20 3 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, $23 4 4 The Alienist Caleb Carr, Random House, $22 14 5 The Waterworks E.L. Doctorow, Random House, $23 4 6 The Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller, Warner, $16.95 98 7 Inca Gold Clive Cussler, Simon & Schuster, $24 10 8 Remember Me Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $23.50 12 9 Black Betty Walter Mosley, Norton, $19.95 3 10 Downtown Anne Rivers Siddons, HarperCollins, $24 4 Nonfiction 1 In the Kitchen with rosie Rosie Daley, Knopf, $14.95 12 2 The Agenda Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $24 4 3 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus John Gray, Ph.D., HarperCollins, $23 67 4 Embraced by the Light Betty J. Eadie, Gold Leaf Press, $16.95 59 5 The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories William J. Bennett, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 28 6 D-day, June 6, 1944 Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $30 6 7 Magic Eye II Thomas Baccei, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 11 8 Magic Eye Thomas Baccei, Andrews & McMeel, $12.95 24 9 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt, Random House, $23 18 10 Standing Firm Dan Quayle, HarperCollins/Zondervan, $25 9 Mass-Market Paperbacks 1 Without Remorse Tom Clancy, Berkley, $6.99 3 2 A Case of Need Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson, Signet, $6.99 4 3 Pleading Guilty Scott Turow, Warner, $6.99 9 4 The Night Manager John le Carre, Ballantine, $6.99 4 5 The Client John Grisham, Dell, $6.99 22 6 Strip Tease Carl Hiaasen, Warner Vision, $6.50 3 7 A Simple Plan Scott Smith, St. Martin's, $5.99 1 8 Star Wars: Dark Apprentice Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam, $5.99 5 9 I'll Be Seeing You Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket Books, $6.50 13 10 The Scorpio Illusion Robert Ludlum, Bantam, $6.99 9