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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
27 March 2000
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David Gemmell's Hero in the Shadows enters the London Times fiction bestseller list at #3 this week. It was also just published in the US. Mark Z. Danielewski's literary horror novel House of Leaves enters Amazon's fiction bestseller list in 12th place (it's published simultaneously in hardcover and trade paper).
Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn placed 5th this week on Amazon's hardcover list, following its win of a National Book Critics Circle Award. Another older book returning to a list is Perez-Reverte's The Club Dumas, on Amazon's paperback list following the release of the film based on it, The Ninth Gate.
Dean Koontz's False Memory has dropped off all tracked lists, the last being that of Washington Post.
PW has updated its children's list this week, but has moved the Harry Potter series to a separate ‘series and tie-ins’ list.
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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.
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NYT
26 Mar |
LAT
26 Mar |
SFC
26 Mar |
USAT
22 Mar |
WP
26 Mar |
WSJ
24 Mar |
London
Times
26 Mar |
PW
27 Mar |
Amz
(22 Mar) |
Book
Sense
27 Mar |
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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 |
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Fiction hardcovers |
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Crichton, Timeline |
13 +2 |
xx |
xxxxxxxx |
xxxxxxxxxxx |
xx |
xxx |
xxxxxxxxxx |
13 -1 |
10 -1 |
xxx |
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Gemmell, Hero in the Shadows |
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3 ++ |
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Heamey trans., Beowulf |
18 -1 |
7 = |
8 +5 |
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10 ++ |
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8 gen -1 |
12 + |
3 = |
9 -4 |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
xxx (28 =) |
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xxx |
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xx |
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1 ch |
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xxx ch |
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Koontz, False Memory |
xx (24 -6) |
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x |
xxxx |
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xxx |
xxx |
xxxxxxx |
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Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn |
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5 ++ |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 = |
5 =3 |
3 +5 |
12 +2 |
4 = |
3 +1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 = |
3 +2 |
2 +5 |
7 +3 |
3 -1 |
2 +1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
6 = |
15 + |
13 -1 |
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7 = |
6 +1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch = |
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Weber, Ashes of Victory |
16 -4 |
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xx |
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x |
xx (19 =) |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Andrews, VC, Rain |
4 -1 |
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18 -7 |
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8 mm -1 |
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Danielewski, House of Leaves |
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12 ++ |
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Goodkind, Soul of the Fire |
(26) |
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x (32 -5) |
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13 mm -1 |
(25 -9) |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
10 -5 |
x |
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21 +5 |
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5 = |
11 mm = |
5 ++ |
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King, The Green Mile |
x (20 -6) |
xxxxx |
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xx (36) |
x |
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xx mm |
8 +3 |
xxx |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Apollyon |
xxxxxx |
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xxx tpb |
xx |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Left Behind |
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xxxxxxxx tpb |
x (19 -4) |
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Perez-Reverte, The Club Dumas |
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23 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
5 +1 |
3 -1 |
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2 +2 |
2 +1 |
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1 series |
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Wesley, The Tenth Kingdom |
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x |
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NYT |
LAT |
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WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
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