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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 14 October 2001


It's a busy week for genre books on the bestseller lists, led by the debut of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Dune: House Corrino (Bantam Spectra) on six lists, as high as #3 in San Francisco.

New hardcovers by Clive Barker and Laurell K. Hamilton debut on the extended New York Times hardcover list. Books by Stephen King & Peter Straub and Terry Brooks still rank on a number of lists, though Black House still hasn't appeared among Amazon's hardcover bestsellers.

In paperback, reprints by Anne Rice, Brian Jacques, and Philip Pullman debut on one or two lists each.

PW now has October's Children's lists posted on its site.

Title NYT
21 Oct
LAT
14 Oct
SFC
14 Oct
USAT
12 Oct
WP
14 Oct
WSJ
12 Oct
London
Times
14 Oct
PW
15 Oct
BookSense
15 Oct
Amz
(14 Oct)
Amz UK
[14 Oct]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Barker, Coldheart Canyon 34 ++                    
Boyle, After the Plague   3 +3                  
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax 12 -3 7 +3   x   8 -3 xx 7 -2     xx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl               x      
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 29 ++                    
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 8 ++   3 ++ 41 ++   4 ++   5 ++ 15 ++    
James Herbert, Once             6 -3       3 =
Jacques, Taggerung 7 -5   xx xx   13 -3   2 ++ 6 -1    
King/Straub, Black House 2 = 6 -4 xx 7 -4 6 -4 3 = 2 -1 3 -1 3 +1   1 =
Le Guin, The Other Wind     4 +1                
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx 3 -- xx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = xxx.. xx 40 -5   x 4 -- x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 +4 xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 +3   xxx..     xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Fiction paperbacks
Brooks, Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch 32 -3     xxx..       xxx..      
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen 34 -2     xxx       xx xx    
Jacques, Lord Brocktree               6 ++      
King, Hearts in Atlantis 2 -1     8 -3       2 -1 5 -1 11 ++  
King/Straub, The Talisman 21 -1     49 -10       xxx..   10 -1  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass 8 ++               9 ++    
Rice, Merrick 25 ++                    
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... xxx.. 6 -5 xxx.. xxx..     5 3 = xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 =   xx 2 =     4   1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 = 6 + xxx.. 10 -2     3 -- 3 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = 3 +1 xxx.. 1 +5     2 -- 4 -1    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xxx 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 = xxx..    
Sachar, Holes x     xxx..       5 -3 xxx    
Star Trek Gateways 1-6 35 ++                    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   21 -6       6 = 9 -4    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   xx   x           6 = mm, 5 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. xxx   32 -11       x mm, x tpb x    
Nonfiction paperbacks
Fraser, Conversations with J.K. Rowling xx                    
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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