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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 11 February 2001


Of several debuts this week the most prominent is Michael Reaves's Star Wars novel Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (Ballantine Del Rey/Lucasbooks), placing at 8th or 9th on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly lists.

Also: Harry Turtledove's Colonization: Aftershocks enters the extended NYT list at #25.

In the UK, Anne McCaffrey's The Skies of Pern (Bantam) debuts at #6 on the Times of London's fiction hardcover list, with 1,047 copies sold in the first week. (The US edition is due in April.)

Two new books by J.K. Rowling due in March are riding atop the not-yet-published bestseller lists at both Amazon US and Amazon UK -- Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. (Amazon US lists them on one page.) Stephen King's Dreamcatcher is also selling advance copies (US edition; UK edition).

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
18 Feb
LAT
11 Feb
SFC
11 Feb
USAT
9 Feb
WP
11 Feb
WSJ
9 Feb
London
Times
11 Feb
PW
12 Feb
BookSense
12 Feb
Amz
(7 Feb)
Amz UK
[11 Feb]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon 20 -4 xx 13 -3 xxx..       x 14 + 3 =  
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus x                    
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] xxx ch hc 5 = ch           5 -2 ch fic xxx.. ch xxx..  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] 30 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 8 -5 10 -9 xxx x 7 +2 9 -3   5 -2 x 7 +1  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling x xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   21 -2  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] 6 = xxx   xxx.. xxx.. xxx   xx xxx.. 11 -2  
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern             6 ++        
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov; US 7 Nov] xxx..           10 -4       5 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 6 +2 ch hc   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   2 -1 ch fic 8 + ch    
Reaves, SW Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter 9 ++         8 ++   9 ++      
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = ch hc x ch 12 -10 17 -4   3 = 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 2 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 2 = ch hc x ch 6 -1 22 -8   4 = 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 5 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 4 -3 ch xx xxx..   xx 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   xxx..     xx 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Turtledove, Colonization: Aftershocks 25 ++                    
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Ender's Game               xxx..   x  
Card, Ender's Shadow xxx..             xxx.. xxx.. 17 =  
Crichton, Timeline 22 -6     39 -11 xx   xxx.. xx 4 = 12 -1  
Harris, Hannibal 5 -1 10 -1   6 -1 9 -2   xxx.. 2 = 5 + 20 +  
Koontz, False Memory 21 -11     34 -13 xxx     12 -4   xxx  
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn [tpb]   xxx..             xx tpb    
Pullman, The Golden Compass               4 -1 ch fic      
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               x ch fic   x  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 2 = ch pb   xx 11 -3       1 = ch series 1 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = ch pb 8 -6 ch 9 + 10 -3       1 = ch series 3 -2 ch    
Sachar, Holes 5 -2 ch pb     xxx..       3 -1 ch fic 6 + ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   14 -1  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 22 -6 7 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 17 +2  
  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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