Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen debuts on the Times of London hardcover fiction list this week at #8 -- just as Iain Banks's Look to Windward did last week. The Banks novel has risen this week to #3. The US paperback of the second Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, published August 15, is #1 at both USA Today and BookSense this week. Noted, though it will not be tracked weekly: the fifth volume of Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, titled The Austere Academy (noted last week on the New SFFH Books page), is 15th this week on NYT’s children’s list, while first volume The Bad Beginning is 9th, fourth volume The Miserable Mill is 18th, second volume The Reptile Room is 22nd, and third volume The Wide Window is 24th. The first volume also makes BookSense’s children’s list this week, at #9. Also noted (once) but not tracked on this page: the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition Player’s Handbook (one of several 3rd edition D&D volumes being published) is #1 on Amazon’s hardcover fiction list this week. New titles on Amazon UK's pre-publication bestsellers list (though they're about to be published in the next couple weeks): J.G. Ballard's Super-Cannes and Kate Elliott's Child of Flame. New trade paperback editions ranking on BookSense's list this week: William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties and Kurt Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box.
This cell color indicates forthcoming books: Amazon US/UK not-yet-published (NYP) rankings			This cell color indicates ineligible titles, e.g. YA titles excluded from fiction lists, or no paperback lists					This cell color indicates stale data; e.g., children's bestseller lists updated only monthly
Title	NYT 3 Sep	LAT 27 Aug	SFC 27 Aug	USAT 23 Aug	WP 27 Aug	WSJ 25 Aug	London Times 27 Aug	PW 28 Aug	BookSense 28 Aug	Amz (23 Aug)	Amz UK [27 Aug]
Items compiled/total on list	15/30	15/15	15/15	30/100	10/10	10/10	10/10	15/15	15 hc, 5 pb	15/25	10/10
Fiction hardcovers
Ballard, Super-Cannes [UK: 4 Sep]											31 ++ NYP
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]							3 +5
Brooks, Isle Witch [US: Sep]										17 -1 NYP
Clark MH, Before I Say Goodbye	(31 =)	10 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
David, Peter, Star Trek...Restoration [UK: Nov]											xx NYP
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus							5 -2				2 =
Elliott, Kate, Child of Flame [UK: 7 Sep]											37 ++ NYP
Faber, Under the Skin										xx
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]											21 + NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug]							8 ++
Heaney trans., Beowulf	xxx	xxx..	7 +5	--	xxx..	xxx..	xxx.. gen	xxx..	x	23 =
Hobb, Ship of Destiny	x									x
Jacques, The Legend of Luke	x ch
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep]											23 + NYP
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]										2 = NYP	14 +6 NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling	10 +1	6 +		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		11 =		10 -1
Martin, A Storm of Swords [UK: 8 Aug; US: Oct]										11 -3 NYP
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]											2 +3 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]										x NYP	10 -7 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]										15 +6 NYP	xx NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	2 +1 ch	9 ch	2 =	7 -1	4 -1	2 =		1 series =	4 -1 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK	1 = ch	1 ch	1 =	3 -2	1 =	1 =	1 = ch	1 series =	2 -1 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	4 -2 ch	7 ch	4 +1	x	2 =	3 =		1 series =	6 -2 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	3 +1 ch		5 -2		6 -1	4 =		1 series =	5 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter #5 [Jul 2001]											xxx NYP
Straub, Magic Terror		xxx
Turtledove, The Great War: Breakthroughs	32 -4
Williams, Tad, Otherland IV [UK: Sep]											29 -16 NYP
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?	17 = ch	x ch						1 ch-pic
Fiction paperbacks
Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties									20 ++ tpb
Harris, Hannibal	15 -3	xx		27 -2	x		6 -2	13 -1	5 =	x	4 =
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides	27 -7			35 -3
King, Hearts in Atlantis	3 =			8 =	7 ++		8 -2	3 =			3 =
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug]							4 +1
Luceno, Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos 1: Hero's Trial [US: Aug; UK: Aug]	18 -2			31 -12				15 -7		x
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]							3 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug]				1 +6			4 = ch		1 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone		5 ch		2 =	1 =		2 = ch	1 series	3 -1 ch
Sachar, Holes				xxx..				1 ch =	7 -1 ch
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon									x	xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR										24 =
Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box									15 ++ tpb
Nonfiction
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter									x ch
	NYT	LAT	SFC	USAT	WP	WSJ	London	PW	BookSense	Amz	Amz UK

The table compiles SFFH books placing 15^th or higher on general bestseller lists (30^th 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
   nyp Not-yet-published (pre-ordered)

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, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). 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.