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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
28 February 2000
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The SF-genre bestseller lists on Amazon.com, Amazon.uk.co, and Barnesandnoble.com are no longer tracked on this chart. They are either not regularly updated from week to week, or are too volatile from week to week to be meaningful. (This week Barnesandnoble was updated, but neither Amazon list was.) This change makes the chart much shorter.
Both Terry Pratchett books have dropped off the London Times list, while Seamus Heaney’s new translation of Beowulf, which recently won Britain’s Whitbread Prize, is #1 on the general [nonfiction] list.
We’re not tracking Doctorow’s City of God as a genre title, but it’s entered a couple lists this week (11 at Booksense; 11 at PW); so has Updike’s new book, a prequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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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).
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 (fiction lists), and BookSense. 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. Some books are on separate children's lists (ch), trade paperback lists (tpb), or mass market paperback lists (mm), as indicated.
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NYT
27 Feb |
LAT
27 Feb |
SFC
27 Feb |
USAT
23 Feb |
WP
27 Feb |
WSJ
25 Feb |
London
Times
27 Feb |
PW
28 Feb |
Amz
(23 Feb) |
Book
Sense
28 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 |
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Fiction hardcovers |
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Crichton, Timeline |
10 = |
x |
xxxx |
xxxxxxx |
7 +1 |
8 +1 |
xxxxxx |
5 = |
6 -1 |
13 -3 |
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Heaney trans., Beowulf |
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1 ++ |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
14 +1 |
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15 = |
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xx |
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3 ch ++ |
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xxx ch |
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Koontz, False Memory |
9 = |
15 -2 |
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xxxx |
10 + |
11 -1 |
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8 -2 |
12 -1 |
xxx |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant |
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x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 = |
2 +2 |
1 = |
7 +1 |
5 -3 |
3 = |
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2 ch +1 |
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3 ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 = |
12 -9 |
3 -1 |
4 = |
3 -2 |
2 = |
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1 ch +1 |
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2 ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
6 = |
3 +2 |
x |
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8 -3 |
5 = |
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5 ch -1 |
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xxx ch |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
2 = |
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9 -2 |
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2 mm = |
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King, The Green Mile |
5 = |
x |
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16 +1 |
7 +1 |
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6 mm -1 |
7 -1 |
4 mm = |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Apollyon |
xx |
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15 tpb -1 |
14 + |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Left Behind |
xxxxxxx |
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xxxx tpb |
x (17 -8) |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 = |
2 +3 |
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3 = |
3 -1 |
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4 ch -3 |
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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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27 -4 |
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14 mm -6 |
15 = |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
Book
Sense |
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