After mainstreaming the women's move-ment, Gloria Steinem has mainstreamed her consciousness in a book that resembles a self-help manual more than a history of feminism's most prominent spokeswoman. As a sign that Steinem has read the spirit of the age, readers eager to turn inward have put her book on the nonfiction list at No. 9. WEEKS FICTION ON LIST
1 SCARLETT: THE SEQUEL TO MARGARET MITCHELL'S GONE WITH THE WIND 14 Alexandra Ripley, Warner, $24.95 2 HIDEAWAY 2 Dean R. Koontz, Putnam, $22.95 3 BLINDSIGHT3 Robin Cook, Putnam, $21.95 4 NO GREATER LOVE 9 Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $23 5 NEEDFUL THINGS 15 Stephen King, Viking, $24.95 6 THE SUM OF ALL FEARS 23 Tom Clancy, Putnam, $24.95 7 PRIVATE EYES 2 Jonathan Kellerman, Bantam, $21.50 8 THE FIRM 46 John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 9 NIGHT OVER WATER 16 Ken Follett, Morrow, $22 10 MCNALLY'S SECRETS 2 Lawrence Sanders, Putnam, $21.95
NONFICTION
1 DEN OF THIEVES 14 James B. Stewart, Simon & Schuster, $25 2 MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK 8 Charles J. Givens, Simon & Schuster, $28 3 THE BEST TREATMENT 7 Isadore Rosenfeld, Simon & Schuster, $22 4 ME: STORIES OF MY LIFE 18 Katharine Hepburn, Knopf, $25 5 BACKLASH: THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST AMERICAN WOMEN 12 Susan Faludi, Crown, $24 6 PLAUSIBLE DENIAL 3 Mark Lane, Thunder's Mouth, $22.95 7 AWAKEN THE GIANT 10 Anthony Robbins, Summit Books, $20 8 THE JORDAN RULES 7 Sam Smith, Simon & Schuster, $20 9 REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN: A BOOK OF SELF-ESTEEM 1 Gloria Steinem, Little, Brown, $22.95 10 MEMORIES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RALPH EMERY 4 Ralph Emery with Tom Carter, Macmillan, $19.95
