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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 16 September 2001


Ursula K. Le Guin's The Other Wind (Harcourt) debuts on one list this week, at #8.

The Wall Street Journal list has not been updated this week; and Amazon's list appears to be stale for the past two weeks now. (And if Amazon UK's list has been updated, we can't tell.)

There are two paperback debuts this week: Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch is on three lists; Brian Jacques's Lord Brocktree is on one list.

Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time has dropped off The Times of London's list.

Title NYT
23 Sep
LAT
16 Sep
SFC
16 Sep
USAT
12 Sep
WP
16 Sep
WSJ
7 Sep Stale
London
Times
16 Sep
PW
17 Sep
BookSense
17 Sep
Amz
(12 Sep)
Stale?
Amz UK
[16 Sep]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Bujold, The Curse of Chalion                   xx  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl xxx             5 -3 xxx..    
Gaiman, American Gods xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xx  
Haydon, Destiny                   20 =  
King, Dreamcatcher 34 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Le Guin, The Other Wind     8 ++                
Pratchett, Thief of Time xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       x     xxx.. 7 =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 38 =   7 +1 3 -- 6 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 2 -1 xxx.. 14 + 36 -4   5 +1 4 -- 10 -4    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 10 -4 xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 5 -1   xxx..     xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Watson, Jedi Quest: Path to Truth xx                    
Fiction paperbacks
Brooks, Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch 14 ++     49 ++       15 ++      
Harry Potter.. Poster Book xx     xxx..         xxx..    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen 13 +15     45 +1       13 ++ 7 +2    
Jacques, Lord Brocktree 9 ++                    
Keyes, The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth xx     xxx       xx   17 =  
King, Hearts in Atlantis 15 +8     24 +12       14 ++      
King/Straub, The Talisman 28 -9     xx       xx   20 =  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye             xxx       xx
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... x 6 -5 xxx.. xxx..     5 3 +1 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban             4        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 = 6 + xxx.. 16 +3     3 -- 4 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = 3 +1 xxx.. 7 +7     2 -- 3 -1    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 6 +1 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 +1 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes 4 +1     xxx..       2 -1 xxx    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   23 +21       x 3 =    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   xx               4 = mm, 6 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring xx 5 ++   xx         10 -3    
Nonfiction paperbacks
King, On Writing x                    
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW BookSense Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists Italics indicates stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before

The table compiles SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists. The table shows 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.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.  

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