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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
13 March 2000
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David Weber's latest Honor Harrington novel holds on three lists from last week, and ranks among the also-rans, at #20, on the NYT list.
The new Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf enters three more US lists this week. It's ranked among fiction books by everyone except the Times of London, which puts it on the general (nonfiction) list.
Dean Koontz's False Memory still ranks on a couple lists. It never did appear on the San Francisco Chronicle list. SFC's nonfiction list this week puts A General Theory of Love in 12th place; it's by three S.F. psychiatrists, the list notes.
Three genre titles are back on this week’s Washington Post list after one or more weeks off. Presumably other books of more passing interest have come and gone.
Louis Sachar's Holes was mentioned five weeks ago for cracking the SFC list over a year after first publication. (It's not SFFH, but it's a YA book and so is notable, if for no other reason, than for making inroads to the 'adult' bestseller lists.) This week it pops up in 12th place on the Los Angeles Times fiction list.
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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)
() below cut-off but noted anyway
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
12 Mar |
LAT
12 Mar |
SFC
12 Mar |
USAT
9 Mar |
WP
12 Mar |
WSJ
10 Mar |
London
Times
12 Mar |
PW
13 Mar |
Amz
(8 Mar) |
Book
Sense
13 Mar |
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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 |
9 = |
14 -3 |
xxxxxx |
xxxxxxxxx |
7 + |
x |
xxxxxxxx |
14 -9 |
6 +1 |
x |
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Heaney trans., Beowulf |
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3 ++ |
7 ++ |
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5 gen -4 |
13 ++ |
2 +2 |
6 = |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
x (18 -4) |
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x |
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9 + |
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3 ch |
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x ch |
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Koontz, False Memory |
13 -3 |
xx |
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xxxxxx |
10 + |
xx |
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x |
x (20 -6) |
xxxxx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 = |
6 -3 |
4 -1 |
10 -3 |
3 = |
3 = |
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2 ch |
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(1) ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 = |
4 -2 |
3 -1 |
8 -3 |
2 = |
2 = |
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1 ch |
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(1) ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
6 -1 |
9 +5 |
8 + |
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6 = |
6 -1 |
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5 ch |
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(1) ch = |
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Weber, Ashes of Victory |
(20) |
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10 -2 |
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8 +1 |
8 -2 |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Andrews, VC, Rain |
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7 ++ |
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9 mm ++ |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
3 -1 |
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17 -6 |
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8 mm -4 |
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King, The Green Mile |
8 = |
xxx |
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12 +7 |
8 -1 |
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12 mm -4 |
8 -3 |
x |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Apollyon |
xxxx |
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x tpb |
12 + |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Left Behind |
xxxxxxxxx |
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xxxxxx tpb |
15 -3 |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, Tribulation Force |
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x (18 -4) |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
4 = |
2 -1 |
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2 +1 |
2 = |
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4 ch |
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(1) ch = |
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Stackpole, Stars Wars: The New Jedi Order -- Dark Tide 1: Onslaught |
x (16 -1) |
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xx (48 -12) |
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x mm |
xx (17 -1) |
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LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
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