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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 17 September 2000
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This week's fantasy novel bestseller debut is Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch, appearing in the top 10 on three US lists this week.
Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen debuts on two more US lists this week.
Washington Post has apparently dropped the Harry Potter books from its fiction hardcover and paperback lists, the latest paper to do so. The books now appear on the same lists as 'adult' bestsellers only on the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal lists. With the Terry Brooks and Terry Goodkind books, in fact, six of the top ten books on this week's WSJ list are fantasy titles. (Five of ten at SFC.)
Meanwhile, the New York Times has split its recently-debuted Children's Bestseller list into three separate sub-lists, for paperbacks, chapter books, and picture books, the three lists cycling so that each week's NYT Book Review lists only one. This means that one of the bestselling books of any type in the US currently, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, gets listed by NYT only every third week.
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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
24 Sep |
LAT
17 Sep |
SFC
17 Sep |
USAT
13 Sep |
WP
17 Sep |
WSJ
15 Sep |
London Times
17 Sep |
PW
18 Sep |
BookSense
18 Sep |
Amz
(13 Sep) |
Amz UK
[17 Sep] |
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] |
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6 -1 |
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Brooks, Ilse Witch [UK: Aug] |
7 ++ |
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9 ++ |
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7 ++ |
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Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus |
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10 -3 |
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2 = |
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep] |
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16 + NYP |
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug] |
5 = |
6 ++ |
9 = |
35 -7 |
5 ++ |
10 -3 |
x |
5 = |
7 +1 |
4 -1 |
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Heaney trans., Beowulf |
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xxx.. |
15 + |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. gen |
xxx.. |
xxx |
18 = |
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Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3] |
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22 ++ NYP |
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Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] |
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5 ++ |
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42 -36 NYP |
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] |
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3 -1 NYP |
8 +9 NYP |
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling |
8 -1 |
x |
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xxx.. |
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xx |
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10 +3 |
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LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] |
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2 +1 NYP |
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Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct] |
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9 +3 NYP |
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Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov] |
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4 +1 NYP |
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] |
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7 +2 NYP |
3 +12 NYP |
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct] |
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6 -2 NYP |
x NYP |
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
2 = ch |
9 ch |
4 -1 |
8 -1 |
x |
3 = |
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1 series = |
4 = ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK |
1 = ch |
1 ch |
1 = |
5 -1 |
x |
2 = |
1 = ch |
1 series = |
3 = ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
4 = ch |
7 ch |
10 -5 |
xxx.. |
x |
7 +2 |
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1 series = |
8 -2 ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 = ch |
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5 + |
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x |
5 +1 |
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1 series = |
6 +1 ch |
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Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? |
3 ch-pic |
x ch |
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1 = ch-pic |
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Fiction paperbacks |
Harris, Hannibal |
21 -2 |
xxx.. |
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45 -8 |
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10 -5 |
xx |
xxx |
xxx.. |
4 = |
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides |
x |
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xxx |
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King, Hearts in Atlantis |
9 -2 |
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22 -6 |
xxx |
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xx |
9 -4 |
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17 -3 |
3 = |
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug] |
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x |
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Martin, A Clash of Kings |
31 ++ |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK] |
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3 = ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] |
1 |
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2 -1 |
1 = |
x |
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4 = ch |
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2 -1 ch |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
2 |
5 ch |
3 = |
2 +1 |
x |
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2 = ch |
1 = series |
1 +1 ch |
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Sachar, Holes |
3 |
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xx |
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1 = ch |
7 -2 ch |
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Stephenson, Cryptonomicon |
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7 + |
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xx tpb |
xxx.. |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR |
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18 = |
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Nonfiction |
King, On Writing |
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10 +9 NYP |
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Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter |
4 |
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x ch |
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USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
BookSense |
Amz |
Amz UK |
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
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.
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