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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
1 May 2000
Crichton's Timeline has slipped from the last tracked list in the table below, PW's. Two Stephen King paperbacks remain in the table by holding onto one list each. The movie tie-in paperback of Hubbard's Battlefield Earth is a runner-up on two lists this week.
Anne McCaffrey's Pegasus in Space leads the SF genre bestseller lists at both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, but can do no better on general lists than to place a distant runner-up, at #26, on one list, NYT's.
We still check the SF and horror bestseller lists of the online booksellers (Amazon, Amazon UK, and Barnes & Noble), but don't include them in the table below. They are not always updated every week, and there isn't enough consistency among them, or on each list from week to week, for tracking changes to be of much significance.
BookSense keeps changing its mind about how to rank the Harry Potter books on its children's list: this week it's as a series, at #1.
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NYT
30 Apr |
LAT
30 Apr |
SFC
30 Apr |
USAT
27 Apr |
WP
30 Apr |
WSJ
28 Apr |
London
Times
30 Apr |
PW
1 May |
Amz
(26 Apr) |
Book
Sense
1 May |
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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 |
xxxxx (29) |
xxx |
xxxx |
xxxx... |
xxxx... |
xxxx... |
xxxx... |
x |
xxx |
xxxx... |
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Heamey trans., Beowulf |
9 +1 |
2 = |
9 -2 |
-- |
4 +2 |
10 + |
10 gen + |
5 = |
2 +1 |
11 -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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xxx ch |
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McCaffrey, Pegasus in Space |
(26) |
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Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant (US edition) |
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x |
11 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 -1 |
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5 = |
9 +1 |
5 -1 |
3 -1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 +1 |
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4 -1 |
7 = |
6 -3 |
2 -1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
6 +1 |
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10 -1 |
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10 = |
7 -1 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch |
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Sachar, Holes |
-- |
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15 + |
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2 ch |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Anderson/Wallace, Star Wars Essential Chronology |
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(21) |
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Hubbard, Battlefield Earth |
(26) |
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(37) |
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King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
xx (30) |
xxxx.. |
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xxx |
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10 + |
xxxx |
x (22 -8) |
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King, The Green Mile |
xx |
xxxx... |
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xxx |
xxxx.. |
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xxxx |
13 +5 |
xxxx... |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
9 +1 |
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6 -2 |
10 -7 |
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1 series |
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(1) ch |
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NYT |
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 |
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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