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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 10 September 2000


Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen slips a bit but remains on several US lists, debuts this week on Amazon's fiction hardcover list, and returns after one week off to the Times of London list.

San Francisco Chronicle, which has not had a regular paperback bestseller list (as indicated by the dark gray cells in the table below), does have a "quality paperbacks" list this week (mixing fiction and nonfiction), with Harry Potter books in positions 1 and 3.
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
17 Sep
LAT
10 Sep
SFC
10 Sep
USAT
6 Sep
WP
10 Sep
WSJ
8 Sep
London
Times
10 Sep
PW
11 Sep
BookSense
11 Sep
Amz
(6 Sep)
Amz UK
[10 Sep]
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
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]             5 +2        
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus             7 -4       2 =
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]                     x NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug] 5 -3   9 = 28 -18   7 -3 8 + 5 -3 8 -3 3 ++  
Heaney trans., Beowulf xxx.. xxx.. xx -- xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. gen xxx.. xxx 18 +5  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep]                     6 +27 NYP
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]                   2 = NYP 17 -10 NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 7 +3 12 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   x   13 -3  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]                   3 NYP  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [UK: 8 Aug; US: Oct]                   12 -1 NYP  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]                     5 +4 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]                   9 +3 NYP 15 -3 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]                   4 +11 NYP 47 + NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch 9 ch 3 = 7 +1 3 -1 3 =   1 series = 4 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = ch 1 ch 1 = 4 = 1 = 2 = 1 = ch 1 series = 3 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch 7 ch 5 +5 xxx 6 -3 9 -1   1 series = 6 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch   x   4 +2 6 =   1 series = 7 -1 ch    
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? 3 ch-pic x ch           1 = ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Harris, Hannibal 19 -4 xxx..   37 -8 xxx   5 -1 x xx xxx 4 =
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides 26 +2     xx              
King, Hearts in Atlantis 7 -3     16 -3 xx   x 5 -2   14 ++ 3 =
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug]             6 +        
Luceno, Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos 1: Hero's Trial [US: Aug; UK: Aug] x     x       xx   xxx  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]             3 = ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug]     1 1 +1 1 ++   4 = ch   1 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   5 ch 3 3 = 2 -1   2 = ch 1 = series 2 = ch    
Sachar, Holes       x       1 = ch 5 +2 ch    
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon                 x tpb xxx..  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   18 +6  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing                   19 +5 NYP  
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter                 9 + ch    
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW BookSense Amz Amz UK

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
   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.  

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