Dream team: The self-help duo that created last year's Life 101 has reappeared with a manual on how to grab the brass ring of your heart's desire. Before you write these authors off as squishheads, keep in mind that John-Roger and Peter McWilliams are experts in fulfilling impossible dreams: They've defied the publishing industry, issued their own books, and propelled them onto the best- seller list. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST

1 The Kitchen God's Wife 8 Amy Tan, Putnam, $22.95 2 The Firm 24 John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 3 Loves Music, Loves To Dance 15 Mary Higgins Clark, Simon & Schuster, $21.95 4 Pastime 4 Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $19.95 5 Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, Vol. I 12 Timothy Zahn, Spectra/Bantam, $15 6 Maximum Bob 3 Elmore Leonard, Delacorte, $20 7 Beast 9 Peter Benchley, Random House, $21 8 Paradise 7 Judith McNaught, Pocket Books, $19.95 9 As The Crow Flies 15 Jeffrey Archer, HarperCollins, $22.95 10 Sky Masters 4 Dale Brown, Donald I. Fine/Putnam, $21.95

NONFICTION

1 Parliament Of Whores 9 P.J. O'Rourke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $19.95 2 Chutzpah 9 Alan Dershowitz, Little, Brown, $22.95 3 When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time To Go Home 4 Erma Bombeck, HarperCollins, $19.95 4 Iron John: A Book About Men 37 Robert Bly, Addison-Wesley, $18.95 5 Toujours Provence 9 Peter Mayle, Knopf, $20 6 Boss Of Bosses: The Fall Of The Godfather: The FBI And Paul Castellano 7 Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins, Simon & Schuster, $22.95 7 Fire In The Belly: On Being A Man 9 Sam Keen, Bantam, $19.95 8 A Question Of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy 7 Thomas C. Reeves, Free Press, $24.95 9 Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts 10 John-Roger and Peter McWilliams, Prelude/Bantam, $20 10 Wealth Without Risk 128 Charles J. Givens, Simon & Schuster, $19.95