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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
17 April 2000
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Mark Z. Danielewski's literary, postmodern horror novel House of Leaves, published simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback, made Amazon's paperback list for a couple weeks, then dropped off, and has appeared on the Los Angeles Times hardcover list this week in 8th place.
The LA Times has apparently exiled the Harry Potter books from its fiction hardcover and paperback lists (or else the books have mysteriously stopped selling in southern California). Cells in the table below are shaded accordingly.
The Times of London, meanwhile, has added a Children's Paperback section to its bestseller lists. The Harry Potter books (all three of which are available in paperback in Britain) occupy the first three slots.
PW and BookSense have updated their children's lists this week. BookSense has gone back to ranking each of the Harry Potter books separately on its children's list, rather than collectively as a series.
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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
16 Apr |
LAT
16 Apr |
SFC
16 Apr |
USAT
19 Apr |
WP
16 Apr |
WSJ
14 Apr |
London
Times
16 Apr |
PW
17 Apr |
Amz
(12 Apr) |
Book
Sense
17 Apr |
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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 |
xxx (19) |
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xx |
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15 -5 |
x (24 -12) |
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Danielewski, House of Leaves |
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8 ++ |
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Gemmell, Hero in the Shadows |
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xx |
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Heamey trans., Beowulf |
8 +3 |
15 -2 |
1 +7 |
(48) |
8 +1 |
x |
9 gen -1 |
7 +1 |
2 +1 |
3 +3 |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
xxxx... |
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3 ch -2 |
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x ch |
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Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn |
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12 -1 |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant (US edition) |
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15 -6 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 +1 |
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4 +1 |
14 -4 |
3 +1 |
3 = |
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1 series = |
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3 ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 = |
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7 -3 |
9 -3 |
5 = |
2 = |
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1 series = |
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2 ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
7 -1 |
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11 = |
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x |
7 -1 |
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1 series = |
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7 ch |
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Sachar, Holes |
(29) |
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2 ch |
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Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box |
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2 + |
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Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Fallen Sun |
x (20 -4) |
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x |
(19 -2) |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Andrews, VC, Rain |
10 -2 |
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x |
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x mm |
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Danielewski, House of Leaves |
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xx |
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Goodkind, Soul of the Fire |
(26) |
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xxxx |
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x mm |
xxxx |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
9 +1 |
xxxx |
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x (40 -15) |
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xx |
xx |
10 -4 |
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King, The Green Mile |
8 +5 |
xxxx... |
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x (43) |
xxxx |
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xx |
15 -4 |
xxxx... |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
7 = |
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5 -2 |
4 =2 |
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1 series = |
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1 ch |
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NYT |
LAT |
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USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
Book
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This cell color means the title is not eligible for this list; e.g. the paper does not have paperback list, or apparently does not include YA books on its general fiction lists |
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This cell color means the data is stale; e.g., a children's bestseller list only updated once a month |
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