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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 22 April 2001


Though it's slipped sharply on a couple, Stephen King's Dreamcatcher remains on all lists this week -- except, again, Amazon's, which might be tracking a few weeks behind everyone else; it has David Farland's latest book this week, a full month after it placed on the NYT list for a single week.

New this week: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragons of a Lost Star (Wizards of the Coast) debuts on three lists, Tad Williams's Otherland: Sea of Silver Light (DAW) on one list.

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
29 Apr
LAT
22 Apr
SFC
22 Apr
USAT
20 Apr
WP
22 Apr
WSJ
20 Apr
London
Times
22 Apr
PW
23 Apr
BookSense
23 Apr
Amz
(18 Apr)
Amz UK
[22 Apr]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Farland, Wizardborn                   25 ++  
Feist, Krondor Tear of the Gods x         xxx..       x  
Gemmell, Ravenheart             x       9 ++
Jacques, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman 5 = ch hc         xx   4 ++ ch fic 7 +2    
King, Dreamcatcher 2 -1 11 -9 11 -8 8 -5 2 -1 3 -2 2 = 2 -1 4 -2   2 =
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 34 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. x  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark 19 -8 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 19 -7  
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern 10 -3   x 42 -21   11 -8   10 -3 x    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass x ch hc   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   8 -5 ch fic xxx.. ch    
Reaves, SW Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter xx         xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 +1 ch hc xxx ch 9 -2 26 =   5 = 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 6 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 2 -1 ch hc xxx ch 5 = 30 -1   8 +1 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 9 -2 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc xx ch xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   xxx..     xxx.. 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Vornholt, STTNG: Genesis Wave x                    
Weber, Changer of Worlds xxx..                 xxx  
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Lost Star 12 ++         9 ++   14 ++      
Williams, Otherland: Sea of Silver Light 17 ++                    
Fiction paperbacks
Harris, Hannibal xx xxx..   xx xxx..   xxx xxx xxx.. xxx xxx..
Jacques, The Legend of Luke xxx.. ch pb             6 -1 ch fic      
Keyes (Greg), SW New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory 1: Conquest 15 =     22 -5       8 -1      
Pullman, The Golden Compass               10 -6 ch fic      
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               x ch fic   xxx..  
Rice, Vittorio the Vampire xx     xxx..       xx      
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 1 = ch pb 1 +2 ch xxx 9 -3       1 ++ ch fic 1 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 4 = ch pb 4 -2 ch xxx.. 13 -1       1 = ch series 5 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch pb 3 +1 ch xxx.. 11 -1       1 = ch series 4 = ch    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 2 = ch pb 2 +4 ch xxx 10 -2       2 ++ ch fic 2 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 8 -2 ch pb     xxx..       3 -1 ch fic x ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   x ch               13 +2  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 35 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
  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)

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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