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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
19 June 2000
The Indwelling is selling everywhere except San Francisco (and London). Hannibal is doing well on every list that includes paperbacks. A new Michael Stackpole Star Wars book debuts on two paperback lists this week. Publishers Weekly posts its June Children's lists this week; the Harry Potter books, and Louis Sachar's Holes, hold their first-place positions.
It doesn't pay to take these bestseller lists too seriously, since it's a mystery sometimes what criteria are used to construct them. Case in point, Greg Bear's Star Wars: Rogue Planet is #10 on Amazon UK's overall fiction hardcover list this past week (not included in the chart below), but ranks only #13 on the same website's SF genre bestseller list... behind, among other titles, Michael Stackpole's new paperback and not-yet-published hardcovers by Iain M. Banks and George R.R. Martin...
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NYT
18 Jun |
LAT
18 Jun |
SFC
18 Jun |
USAT
14 Jun |
WP
18 Jun |
WSJ
16 Jun |
London
Times
18 Jun |
PW
19 Jun |
Amz
(14 Jun) |
Book
Sense
19 Jun |
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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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Bear, Star Wars: Rogue Planet |
14 -1 |
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xxxx.. |
xxx |
xxx |
x |
12 -4 |
xx (21 -1) |
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Clark MH, Before I Say Goodbye |
7 -1 |
15 = |
xxx |
xx (43) |
6 -4 |
9 -1 |
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6 = |
10 +2 |
12 -3 |
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Heaney trans., Beowulf |
20 -1 |
xx |
5 -1 |
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9 + |
xxx.. |
xxx.. gen |
xxx.. |
9 -1 |
5 +1 |
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LeHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling |
1 = |
7 -4 |
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12 -5 |
2 ++ |
1 = |
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1 = |
1 = |
11 -8 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
6 -1 |
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6 +3 |
22 -3 |
xx |
4 +1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
4 = |
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3 +2 |
21 -4 |
10 + |
2 +2 |
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1 series = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
11 -1 |
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xxxx.. |
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xxxx.. |
10 = |
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1 series |
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Fiction paperbacks |
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Harris, Hannibal |
1 = |
4 ++ |
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2 = |
1 ++ |
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1 = |
1 = |
5 -2 |
1 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
11 -2 |
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9 = |
xx |
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1 series |
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Sachar, Holes |
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(44) |
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2 ch +1 |
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Stephenson, Cryptonomicon |
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12 +1 |
15 tpb = |
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Smith/Carey, Star Trek: New Earth Books 1 & 2 |
(25 +2) |
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Stackpole, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide II: Ruin |
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13 ++ |
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6 ++ |
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Nonfiction paperbacks |
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Pratchett et al, The Science of Discworld |
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3 = |
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SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Amz |
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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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