Iain M. Banks's Look to Windward debuts on the Times of London hardcover fiction list at #8. It hasn't placed on Amazon UK's weekly list (yet), but it was at the top of Amazon UK’s hourly-updated ‘Hot 100’ list when we checked in on Saturday 19 August. David and Leigh Edding’s The Redemption of Althalus slipped a notch at both Amazon UK and the Times of London. The paperback of Dean Koontz's False Memory, just out in the UK, placed #5 on the Times of London fiction paperback list. In the US, the Los Angeles Times updated its occasional children's bestseller list this week. BookSense's children's list includes Marc Shapiro's J.K. Rowling biography at #10. For a second week, Robin Hobb's Ship of Destiny and Harry Turtledove's The Great War: Breakthroughs place low on the New York Times list; this week Hobb ranks on Amazon's fiction hardcover list too.
This cell color indicates forthcoming books: Amazon US/UK not-yet-published (NYP) rankings			This cell color indicates ineligible titles, e.g. YA titles excluded from fiction lists, or no paperback lists					This cell color indicates stale data; e.g., children's bestseller lists updated only monthly
Title	NYT 27 Aug	LAT 20 Aug	SFC 20 Aug	USAT 16 Aug	WP 20 Aug	WSJ 18 Aug	London Times 20 Aug	PW 21 Aug	BookSense 21 Aug	Amz (16 Aug)	Amz UK [19 Aug]
Items compiled/total on list	15/30	15/15	15/15	30/100	10/10	10/10	10/10	15/15	15 hc, 5 pb	15/25	10/10
Fiction hardcovers
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]							8 ++				now published
Brooks, Isle Witch [US: Sep]										16 +3 NYP
Clark MH, Before I Say Goodbye	(31 -1)	x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx		xxx..
David, Peter, Star Trek...Restoration [UK: Nov]											x NYP
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus							3 -1				2 -1
Faber, Under the Skin										x
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]											xxx NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug]										3 +1 NYP	now published
Heaney trans., Beowulf	xx	xxx..	12 +	--	xxx..	xxx..	xxx.. gen	xxx..	14 +	23 -6
Hobb, Ship of Destiny	34 -8									21 ++
Jacques, The Legend of Luke	25 + ch
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep]											x NYP
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]										2 +1 NYP	20 + NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling	11 -1	x		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		11 +1		9 -3
Martin, A Storm of Swords [UK: 8 Aug; US: Oct]										8 = NYP	now published?
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]											5 = NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]										12 -3 NYP	3 +11 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]										21 +4 NYP	x NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	3 = ch	9 ch	2 =	6 +1	3 -1	2 +1		1 series =	3 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK	1 = ch	1 ch	1 =	1 =	1 =	1 =	1 = ch	1 series =	1 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	2 = ch	7 ch	5 -2	7 -1	2 +1	3 -1		1 series =	4 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	4 = ch		3 +1		5 -1	4 =		1 series =	5 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter #5 [Jul 2001]											xx NYP
Straub, Magic Terror		xx
Turtledove, The Great War: Breakthroughs	28 -9
Williams, Tad, Otherland IV [UK: Sep]		x									13 +11 NYP
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?	17 -9 ch	x ch						1 ch-pic
Fiction paperbacks
Harris, Hannibal	12 -1	x		25 -2	9 -1		4 =	12 -1	5 =	25 =	4 +1
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides	20 +11			32 ++
King, Hearts in Atlantis	3 =			8 +1			6 -3	3 +2			3 ++
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug]							5 ++
Luceno, Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos 1: Hero's Trial [US: Aug; UK: Aug]	16 -4			19 -4				8 +2		14 ++	(now published)
Martin, A Storm of Swords [UK: 8 Aug?]											x NYP
McDevitt, Slow Lightning [UK: Sep]											xx NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb: 15 Aug]										now pub
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]							3 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [UK]							4 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone		5 ch		2 =	1 =		2 = ch	1 series	2 = ch
Sachar, Holes				xxx..				1 ch =	6 = ch
Salvatore, Star Wars: Vector Prime	xxx
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon									11 -4	xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR										24 -2
Nonfiction
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter									10 ++ ch
	NYT	LAT	SFC	USAT	WP	WSJ	London	PW	BookSense	Amz	Amz UK

The table compiles SFFH books placing 15^th or higher on general bestseller lists (30^th 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
   nyp Not-yet-published (pre-ordered)

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, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). 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.