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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
24 January 2000
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Dean Koontz's False Memory (Bantam) debuted on the Washington Post list this week, but has slipped on other lists, and dropped off the BookSense list already.
Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis has dropped off all lists.
Amazon.com has not updated its SF bestseller list again this week (or remarkably everything is selling exactly the same as last week and the week before that).
Brian Jacques's The Legend of Luke has appeared on BookSense's children's list, underneath 4 Harry Potter editions.
Mervyn Peake's The Gormanghast Trilogy, presumably boosted by the BBC adaptation last week, appears on Amazon.co.uk's SF list. Two older Stephen King books have also appeared on that list (though we don't know why).
The table compiles SFFH books placing 15th or higher on general bestseller lists (30th or higher on the combined USA Today list), and 10th or higher on SF genre lists (last three columns).
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)
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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, Amazon.com (general lists), and BookSense; then SF lists from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Barnesandnoble.com.
All the general 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 children's lists (ch), trade paperback lists (tpb), or mass market paperback lists (mm), as indicated.
The SF genre lists (last three columns) rank hardcovers and paperbacks together. These lists are undated, but were compiled on the dates indicated.
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NYT
23 Jan |
LAT
23 Jan |
SFC
23 Jan |
USAT*
19 Jan |
WP
23 Jan |
WSJ
21 Jan |
London
Times
23 Jan |
PW
24 Jan |
Amz
(19 Jan) |
Book
Sense
24 Jan |
Amz
SF [23 Jan] |
Amz
UK
SF [23 Jan] |
B&N
SF [23 Jan] |
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Items compiled/total on list |
15/30 |
15/15 |
15/15 |
30/100 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
15/15 |
15/25 |
15/15 |
10/25 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
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Fiction hardcovers |
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Card, Ender's Shadow |
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7 = |
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6 -2 |
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Crichton, Timeline |
5 = |
12 -5 |
x |
xx |
3 -2 |
9 -3 |
x |
6 -3 |
3 -2 |
4 -1 |
xxx |
x |
xx |
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Feist, Krondor the Assassins |
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Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties |
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10 = |
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Hamilton, Laurell, Obsidian Butterfly |
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4 ++ |
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3 = |
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Hamilton, Peter, The Naked God |
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5 = |
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4 ++ |
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Harris, Hannibal |
xx |
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9 -5 |
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xxx |
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Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides |
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xxx |
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9 = |
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3 = |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
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5 ch ++ |
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King, Hearts in Atlantis |
x |
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xxx |
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xxx |
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xx |
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xxx |
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Koontz, False Memory |
4 +2 |
1 = |
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26 -8 |
5 ++ |
7 -2 |
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3 -1 |
7 -3 |
x |
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LaHaye/Jenkins, Apollyon |
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x |
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LaHaye/Jenkins, Assassins |
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x |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant |
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5 -2 |
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4 -2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
2 = |
6 -2 |
2 -1 |
7 -1 |
2 +1 |
2 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
1 = |
3 = |
1 +1 |
6 -3 |
1 +1 |
1 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 = |
7 -1 |
6 + |
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6 -2 |
4 = |
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4 ch= |
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4 ch= |
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Salvatore, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime |
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7 = |
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Stephenson, Cryptonomicon |
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14 + |
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1 = |
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2 -1 |
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Tolkien, LOTR boxed set (trilogy) |
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5 +1 |
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Tolkien, LOTR Millennium edition |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Holt, Only Human |
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8 ++ |
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Jones, JV, A Cavern of Black Ice |
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7 ++ |
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Jordan, A Crown of Swords |
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9 ++ |
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Jordan, The Eye of the World |
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8 -3 |
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Jordan, Lord of Chaos |
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10 + |
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Jordan, The Path of Daggers |
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xx |
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4 = |
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1 +1 |
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King, Bag of Bones |
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King, The Green Mile |
3 +2 |
xx |
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9 = |
9 + |
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2 mm = |
5 -1 |
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3 +1 |
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King, Misery Special Ed. |
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10 ++ |
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King, Pet Sematary |
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2 ++ |
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Koontz, Seize the Night |
9 -3 |
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28 -5 |
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14 -7 mm |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Left Behind |
xx |
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13 -1 tpb |
11 = |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Tribulation Force |
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15 -2 |
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Maguire, Wicked |
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6 = |
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Peake, The Gormanghast Trilogy |
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6 ++ |
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Pinto, The Chosen |
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5 ++ |
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Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum |
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1 = |
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Pratchett, The Colour of Magic |
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Pratchett, The Last Continent |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
2 = |
2 +1 |
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2 = |
2 -1 |
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1 ch= |
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Stephenson, Snow Crash |
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xx |
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2 = |
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Tolkien, The Hobbit |
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9 = |
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Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber |
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8 = |
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