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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
24 April 2000
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The Crichtons, Koontzs, and Kings, hardcovers and paperbacks alike, have all but slipped away, leaving the SFFH presence on general bestseller lists to the Harry Potter books and to the new translation of Beowulf.
Notable changes this week are in the margins. Anne McCaffrey's Pegasus in Space is a runner-up at #22 on the New York Times list. Terry Pratchett's The Fifth Elephant (the US edition) popped up last week on the San Francisco Chronicle list, and pops up this week on the Los Angeles Times list. And the movie tie-in re-release of Hubbard's Battlefield Earth appears at #47 on the combined hardcover/paperback USA Today list.
Drop-offs this week (books not within tracked ranks for at least 2 weeks) are David Gemmell's Hero in the Shadows, the paperback of Danielewski's House of Leaves, and the paperback of Terry Goodkind's Soul of the Fire.
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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
-- previously noted anyway but now nowhere in sight
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 general [nonfiction] lists (gen), children's lists (ch), trade paperback lists (tpb), or mass market paperback lists (mm), as indicated.
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NYT
23 Apr |
LAT
23 Apr |
SFC
23 Apr |
USAT
20 Apr |
WP
23 Apr |
WSJ
21 Apr |
London
Times
23 Apr |
PW
24 Apr |
Amz
(19 Apr) |
Book
Sense
24 Apr |
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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 |
xxxx (27) |
xx |
xxx |
xxxx... |
xxxx... |
xxxx... |
xxxx... |
15 = |
xx |
xxxx... |
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Danielewski, House of Leaves |
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x |
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Heamey trans., Beowulf |
10 -2 |
2 +13 |
7 -6 |
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6 +2 |
xx |
x gen |
5 +2 |
3 -1 |
7 -4 |
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Jacques, The Legend of Luke |
xxxx... |
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xxxx... |
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xxxx... |
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3 ch |
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xx ch |
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Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn |
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x (19 -7) |
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McCaffrey, Pegasus in Space |
(22) |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant (US edition) |
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7 ++ |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
2 +1 |
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5 -1 |
10 +4 |
4 -1 |
2 +1 |
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1 series |
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3 ch = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
3 -1 |
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3 +4 |
7 +2 |
3 +2 |
1 +1 |
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1 series |
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2 ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
7 = |
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9 +2 |
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10 + |
6 +1 |
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1 series |
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8 ch -1 |
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Sachar, Holes |
-- |
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2 ch |
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Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box |
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x |
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Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Fallen Sun |
xx (23 -3) |
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xx |
(24 -5) |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Andrews, VC, Rain |
x |
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xx |
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xx mm |
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Hubbard, Battlefield Earth |
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(47) |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
x (25 -16) |
xxxx.. |
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xx |
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xxx |
xxx |
14 -4 |
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King, The Green Mile |
x (22 -14) |
xxxx... |
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xx |
xxxx.. |
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xxx |
x (18 -3) |
xxxx... |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
10 -3 |
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4 +1 |
3 +1 |
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1 series |
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1 ch = |
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LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
Book
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This cell color means the title is not eligible for this list; e.g. the paper does not have paperback list, or apparently does not include YA books on its general fiction lists |
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This cell color means the data is stale; e.g., a children's bestseller list only updated once a month |
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