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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
8 May 2000
We'll note Mary Higgins Clark's romantic thriller Before I Say Good-Bye (Simon & Schuster) this week, for its ESP element; it's appeared on several lists last week and this week.
Not much else of interest on the bestseller lists lately. Beowulf and Harry Potter continue to do well, but the best any genre books do this week is Anne McCaffrey's Pegasus in Space, still only a runner-up on the NYT list, and Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, running-up at both NYT and USAT.
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NYT
7 May |
LAT
7 May |
SFC
7 May |
USAT
4 May |
WP
7 May |
WSJ
5 May |
London
Times
7 May |
PW
8 May |
Amz
(3 May) |
Book
Sense
8 May |
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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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Clark MH, Before I Say Goodbye |
1 ++ |
3 ++ |
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4 -3 |
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1 = |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
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Heamey trans., Beowulf |
11 -2 |
4 -2 |
5 +4 |
-- |
5 -1 |
14 -4 |
x gen |
9 -4 |
3 -1 |
2 +9 |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
xxxx... |
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xxxx... |
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xxxx... |
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3 ch |
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xxxx ch |
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McCaffrey, Pegasus in Space |
(26 =) |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant (US edition) |
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xx |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
4 -1 |
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9 -4 |
19 -10 |
4 +1 |
4 -1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
3 -1 |
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4 = |
17 -10 |
3 +3 |
2 = |
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1 series |
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(1) ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
7 -1 |
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x |
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x |
8 -1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch = |
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Sachar, Holes |
-- |
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x |
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2 ch |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Anderson/Wallace, Star Wars Essential Chronology |
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-- |
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Hubbard, Battlefield Earth |
(24 +2) |
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(31 +6) |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
xxx (27) |
xxxx.. |
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xxxx |
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x |
xxxxx |
xx |
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King, The Green Mile |
xx |
xxxx... |
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xxxx |
xxxx.. |
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xxxxx |
x |
xxxx... |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
8 +1 |
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11 -5 |
4 +6 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch = |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
Book
Sense |
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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 |
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
-- previously noted anyway but now nowhere in sight
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 general [nonfiction] lists (gen), children's lists (ch), trade paperback lists (tpb), or mass market paperback lists (mm), as indicated.
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