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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
21 February 2000
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This week Amazon.co.uk updated its SF bestsellers list, but not Barnes and Noble, while Amazon.com (US) has been stale since the week of January 10th. Perhaps we'll stop tracking these genre bestsellers if they are not reliably updated each week. (See Locus Magazine for extended monthly compilations from Amazon.com and B&N/B. Dalton, as well as from Waldenbooks, separated into the same hardcover, paperback, trade paperback, media-related and gaming-related categories as the Locus Bestsellers lists compiled from specialty stores.)
The Harry Potter books continue their reign with only slight moves up or down from week to week, barely perturbed by the coming and going of more fleeting books. Dean Koontz's False Memory and Michael Crichton's Timeline are the only other genre books figuring prominently on general lists, though Brian Jacques's The Legend of Luke holds on in last place on a couple lists.
In paperbacks, Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon leaps to #2 on the LAT list, and remains on two other lists from last week. King's The Green Mile continues strong on several lists, as does its movie version at the box office. The only other notable change is the appearance of Michael Stackpole's Star Wars book on three more lists this week.
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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)
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
20 Feb |
LAT
20 Feb |
SFC
20 Feb |
USAT
16 Feb |
WP
20 Feb |
WSJ
18 Feb |
London
Times
20 Feb |
PW
21 Feb |
Amz
(16 Feb) |
Book
Sense
21 Feb |
Amz
SF stale |
Amz
UK
SF [19 Feb] |
B&N
SF stale |
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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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Crichton, Timeline |
10 +1 |
11 -3 |
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xxxxxx |
8 = |
9 = |
xxxxx |
5 +1 |
5 -1 |
10 -2 |
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xxxxx |
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Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties |
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xxxx |
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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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Herbert/Anderson, Dune: House Atreides |
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xxxxxxx |
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9 |
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3 |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
15 -1 |
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15 + |
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xx ch |
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Koontz, False Memory |
9 -3 |
13 -12! |
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xxx |
xxx |
10 -2 |
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6 -1 |
11 -5 |
xx |
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LaHaye/Jenkins, Assassins |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant |
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10 = |
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6 -2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 -1 |
4 -1 |
1 = |
8 +1 |
2 = |
3 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 -1 |
3 -1 |
2 +1 |
4 +2 |
1 = |
2 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
6 -1 |
5 = |
6 +2 |
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5 +1 |
5 +1 |
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4 ch = |
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xx ch |
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Rucka, Batman: No Man's Land |
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[Star Wars], The Phantom Menace Portfolio |
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7 |
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Stephenson, Cryptonomicon |
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xxxx |
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xxxxxxx |
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1 |
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Weber, Ashes of Victory |
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WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
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Amz
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Amz
UK
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B&N
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Buffy Poster Book: Essential Angel |
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Card, Children of the Mind |
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Card, Ender's Game |
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Clancy & Greenberg, Powerplays 3: Shadow Watch |
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2 ++ |
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Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey |
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Cornell, Doctor Who -- The Shadows of Avalon |
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10 ++ |
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Garton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Resurrecting Ravana |
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5 ++ |
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Holt, Only Human |
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xx |
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Jones, JV, A Cavern of Black Ice |
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Jordan, A Crown of Swords |
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Jordan, The Eye of the World |
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Jordan, The Fires of Heaven |
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9 |
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Jordan, The Great Hunt |
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xx |
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Jordan, Lord of Chaos |
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8 |
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Jordan, The Path of Daggers |
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xxxxxx |
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4 |
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Jordan, The Shadow Rising |
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Kerr, The Black Raven |
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8 ++ |
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King, The Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
2 ++ |
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7 = |
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2 mm +1 |
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King, The Green Mile |
5 = |
8 -3 |
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17 -5 |
8 -2 |
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5 mm = |
6 +1 |
4 = |
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King, Misery Special Ed. |
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King, Pet Sematary |
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King, Rose Madder |
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Koontz, Seize the Night |
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Koontz, Shattered |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Apollyon |
x |
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14 tpb +1 |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Left Behind |
xxxxxx |
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xxx tpb |
9 +5 |
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Maguire, Wicked |
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6 |
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Peake, The Gormanghast Trilogy |
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1 = |
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Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum |
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xxxxx |
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3 -1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 = |
5 -1 |
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3 = |
2 = |
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1 ch = |
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1 ch = |
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Stackpole, Stars Wars: The New Jedi Order -- Dark Tide 1: Onslaught |
14 ++ |
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23 -2 |
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8 mm -2 |
15 ++ |
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4 ++ |
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Stephenson, Snow Crash |
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xxxxxx |
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Tolkien, The Hobbit |
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7 + |
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Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber |
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xxxxxx |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
Book
Sense |
Amz
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