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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
7 February 2000
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Brian Jacques's The Legend of Luke (Philomel) has entered the Washington Post list at #6, but slipped one on the NYT list and dropped off the SFC list entirely.
Dean Koontz's False Memory (Bantam) holds onto #1 at LA Times, but slipped by one on most other lists.
BookSense has gone back to ranking the four available Harry Potter editions, after tying them all for #1 last week, but has extended its children's list to a total of 8 books. The fourth Harry Potter book ranked #1 on Amazon.com’s hourly-updated 100 Hot Books list Sunday afternoon (6 Feb), even though it won’t be released until July 8th. It was #2 on the same list on Amazon.co.uk.
Not SF, but a notable YA book, is Louis Sachar’s Holes, which has cracked the SFC list at #14 -- over a year after first publication!
The Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk SF genre bestseller columns are shaded to indicate no updates this week. Darker shading indicates ineligibility; e.g., SFC and WP publish no paperback bestseller lists.
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.
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NYT
6 Feb |
LAT
6 Feb |
SFC
6 Feb |
USAT*
4 Feb |
WP
6 Feb |
WSJ
4 Feb |
London
Times
6 Feb |
PW
7 Feb |
Amz
(2 Feb) |
Book
Sense
7 Feb |
Amz
SF |
Amz
UK
SF |
B&N
SF [6 Feb] |
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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 -1 |
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Crichton, Timeline |
11 -3 |
7 +6 |
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10 -5 |
8 -1 |
xxx |
5 = |
4 -2 |
7 -3 |
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xxxx |
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Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties |
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xxx |
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10 |
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Hamilton, Laurell, Obsidian Butterfly |
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3 |
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Hamilton, Peter, The Naked God |
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5 |
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5 -2 |
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Harris, Hannibal |
xxxx |
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x |
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Herbert/Anderson, Dune: House Atreides |
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xxxxx |
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9 |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
15 -1 |
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6 ++ |
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7 ch -5 |
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Koontz, False Memory |
6 -1 |
1 = |
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7 -1 |
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4 = |
5 -1 |
15 -1 |
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LaHaye/Jenkins, Assassins |
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13 + |
15 -3 |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant |
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10 -3 |
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4 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
2 = |
3 +5 |
2 = |
7 +1 |
2 = |
2 = |
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3 ch = |
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3 ch -2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
1 = |
2 = |
1 = |
4 +1 |
1 = |
1 = |
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2 ch = |
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2 ch -1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
5 -1 |
5 +5 |
5 = |
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4 = |
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4 ch -3 |
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Rucka, Batman: No Man's Land |
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9 -2 |
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Salvatore, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime |
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8 + |
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Stephenson, Cryptonomicon |
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xx |
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1 |
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2 + |
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Tolkien, LOTR boxed set (trilogy) |
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Weber, Ashes of Victory |
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Wurts, Grand Conspiracy |
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WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
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Sense |
Amz
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Amz
UK
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Card, Children of the Mind |
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10 + |
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Card, Ender's Game |
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7 + |
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Herbert, Dune Messiah |
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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, The Great Hunt |
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Jordan, Lord of Chaos |
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Jordan, The Path of Daggers |
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4 |
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Jordan, The Shadow Rising |
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4 + |
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King, The Green Mile |
4 -2 |
7 + |
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12 -2 |
4 +5 |
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3 mm = |
6 = |
4 -1 |
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3 |
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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 |
11 +2 |
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25 = |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Apollyon |
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13 tpb + |
12 -1 |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Left Behind |
xxxx |
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Maguire, Wicked |
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Peake, The Gormanghast Trilogy |
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Pinto, The Chosen |
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Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum |
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xxx |
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1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 +1 |
6 -5 |
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3 = |
2 = |
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1 ch= |
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1 ch= |
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Stephenson, Snow Crash |
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2 |
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Tolkien, The Hobbit |
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9 |
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White, Stuart Little |
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Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
Book
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