Whistling dixie: Despite coruscating reviews, Alexandra Ripley's Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind has jumped to No. 1 after a few scant weeks on the list. And riding on its hoopskirts, just out of sight at No. 12: the real thing, the one by Margaret Mitchell. FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 Scarlett: The Sequel To Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind 3 Alexandra Ripley, Warner, $24.95 2 The Sum Of All Fears 10 Tom Clancy, Putnam, $24.95 3 The Doomsday Conspiracy 6 Sidney Sheldon, Morrow, $22 4 The Firm 33 John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 5 Night Over Water 3 Ken Follett, Morrow, $22 6 Saint Maybe 8 Anne Tyler, Knopf, $22 7 The Deceiver 5 Frederick Forsyth, Bantam, $22.50 8 Flowers In The Rain And Other Stories 7 Rosamunde Pilcher, St. Martin's, $20 9 The Kitchen God's Wife 17 Amy Tan, Putnam, $22.95 10 Russka 6 Edward Rutherfurd, Crown, $25
NONFICTION
1 Me: Stories Of My Life 5 Katharine Hepburn, Knopf, $25 2 Final Exit 10 Derek Humphry, Hemlock/Carol, $16.95 3 La Toya: Growing Up In The Jackson Family 5 La Toya Jackson, Dutton, $19.95 4 Uh-Oh: Some Observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door 8 Robert Fulghum, Villard, $19 5 J. Edgar Hoover: The Man And The Secrets 3 Curt Gentry, Norton, $29.95 6 Parliament Of Whores 18 P.J. O'Rourke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $19.95 7 Iron John: A Book About Men 46 Robert Bly, Addison-Wesley, $18.95 8 Making The Most Of Your Money 6 Jane Bryant Quinn, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 9 Hard Courts: Real Life On The Professional Tennis Tours 5 John Feinstein, Villard, $22.50 10 Exposing Myself 4 Geraldo Rivera with Daniel Paisner, Bantam, $21.50
