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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 1 October 2000


The most prominent SF-related book on the lists this week -- even thought it's not really an SF title -- is Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, a literary novel about two sisters, one of whom has written an SF novel called ''The Blind Assassin''. It places this week #1 at LAT and SFC, #2 at BookSense, #3 at Amazon, #7 at NYT.

Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a little slower to rank on the lists; but it does show up at #11 on the BookSense list this week.

Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen slips a bit this week while Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch maintains.

The Amazon UK hardcover and paperback fiction lists do not appear to have been updated for three weeks now; they've been colored 'stale' in the table below.
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
8 Oct
LAT
1 Oct
SFC
1 Oct
USAT
27 Sep
WP
1 Oct
WSJ
29 Sep
London
Times
1 Oct
PW
2 Oct
BookSense
2 Oct
Amz
(27 Sep)
Amz UK
[1 Oct]
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]             x        
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]             10 -2        
Boyle, A Friend of the Earth                 14 -3 x  
Brooks, Ilse Witch [UK: Aug] 9 +1         xx   8 +4 15 ++ 17 -8  
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus             xx       2 =
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]                     xx NYP
Gaiman, American Gods [UK: Nov]                     x NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug] 13 -2 x x xx 8 -1 xx xxx 11 = xx 12 -4  
Heaney trans., Beowulf xxx.. xxx.. xx -- xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. gen xxx.. xxx.. x  
Hamilton, Laurell, A Kiss of Shadows [US: Oct]                   25 ++ NYP  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3]                   19 = NYP  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 5 ++ chhc 5 ++ ch             6 -1 ch 14 ++  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]                   4 -2 NYP 9 = NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 10 +2 xxx   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   23 -8  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]                   2 -1 NYP  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]                   12 -2 NYP  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]                     8 -1 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]                   7 = NYP 7 +14 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]                   8 -2 NYP x NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = chhc 4 +5 ch 8 -5 8 +1 x 4 -1   1 series = 4 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = chhc 3 -2 ch 2 = 4 = x 2 -1 1 = ch 1 series = 3 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = chhc 1 +6 ch 5 +10 xxx.. x x   1 series = 8 -2 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = chhc   9 -1   x 6 +1   1 series = 5 +2 ch    
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? 3 = ch-pic xx ch           2 -1 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Harris, Hannibal xx xxx..   xx xxx..   xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 4 =
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides xxx     xxx..              
King, Hearts in Atlantis 15 -3     31 -2 xxx..   xxx.. 14 -2   x 3 =
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug]             xxx        
Luceno, Star Wars...Jedi Eclipse                   24 -3 NYP x NYP
Martin, A Clash of Kings 31 -2                 25 -5  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]             4 -1 ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 1 chpb   3 -2 1 = x   3 +1 ch 1 = ch series 2 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 chpb 2 +3 ch 1 +2 3 = x   2 = ch 1 = series 1 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 3 chpb     xxx..       1 = ch 9 -1 ch    
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon     xx           xxx.. tpb xxx..  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   15 -3  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing                   6 -1 NYP 46 -15 NYP
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter 4 chpb             2 chnf xxx 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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