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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
20 March 2000

 
Michael Crichton's Timeline and Dean Koontz's False Memory each holds on to one or two lists, while having dropped off other lists weeks or months ago. That leaves, aside from the Harry Potter books, Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf as the fantastic-themed book on the most general bestseller lists this week.

A new V.C. Andrews book, Rain, is being tracked even though we're not sure if it's actually a fantasy or horror book, not having read (or even closely looked at) it. Similarly, perhaps we should have been tracking the Tom Clancy/Martin Greenberg book SSN, a collection of World War III scenarios, which has been on paperback bestseller lists for a few weeks now. (It's not a new book, but a reprint of a 1997 trade paperback.) This week it ranks #4 at both NYT and WP, #10 at PW, #22 at USA Today.

New this week: The paperback of Terry Goodkind's Soul of the Fire debuts on three lists this week, the highest at PW, at #12. A novelization of a TV miniseries, The Tenth Kingdom, places 8th on Amazon's paperback list. A runner-up on NYT's paperback list, at #26, is John Vornholt's Star Trek, The Next Generation: Gemworld: Book One of Two.



The table compiles SFFH books placing 15th or higher on general bestseller lists (30th or higher on the combined USA Today list). The current rank of each book and the change since last week are shown, where:
   = same as last week
   + or - with number: difference since last week
   + back on list
   ++ new on list
   x no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)
   () below cut-off but noted anyway

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, London Times, Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and BookSense. All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Some books are on separate children's lists (ch), trade paperback lists (tpb), or mass market paperback lists (mm), as indicated.

 

Title NYT
19 Mar
LAT
19 Mar
SFC
19 Mar
USAT
16 Mar
WP
19 Mar
WSJ
17 Mar
London
Times
19 Mar
PW
20 Mar
Amz
(15 Mar)
Book
Sense

20 Mar
Items compiled/total on list 15/30 15/15 15/15 30/100 10/10 10/10 10/10 15/15 15/25 15/15
Fiction hardcovers                    
Crichton, Timeline 15 -6 x xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx x xx xxxxxxxxx 12 +2 9 -3 xx
Heamey trans., Beowulf 17 ++ 7 -4 13 -6       7 gen -2 x 3 -1 5 +1
Jacques, The Legend of Luke xx (28 -10)   xx   x     3 ch   xx ch
Koontz, False Memory x (18 -5) xxx   xxxxxxx 10 = xxx   xx xx (25 -5) xxxxxx
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 = 8 -2 8 -4 14 -4 4 -1 4 -1   2 ch   (1) ch =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = 5 -1 7 -4 10 -2 2 = 3 -1   1 ch   (1) ch =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 6 = x 12 -4   7 -1 7 -1   5 ch   (1) ch =
Weber, Ashes of Victory 12 ++         x   13 -5 x (19 -11)  
Fiction paperbacks                    
Andrews, VC, Rain 3 ++     11 -4       7 mm +2    
Goodkind, Soul of the Fire       27 ++       12 mm ++ (16 ++)  
King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 5 -2 9 ++   26 -9     5 ++ 11 mm -3    
King, The Green Mile 14 -6 xxxx   x (36 -24) 9 -1     x mm 11 -3 xx
LeHaye/Jenkins, Apollyon xxxxx             xx tpb x (20 -8)  
LeHaye/Jenkins, Left Behind xxxxxxxxxx             xxxxxxx tpb 15 =  
LeHaye/Jenkins, Tribulation Force                 xx (21 -3)  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 6 -2 2 =   4 -2 3 -1     4 ch   (1) ch =
Stackpole, Stars Wars: The New Jedi Order -- Dark Tide 1: Onslaught xx (31 -15)     xxx       xx mm xxx  
Wesley, The Tenth Kingdom                 8 ++  
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW Amz Book
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