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.
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]							6 -1
Brooks, Ilse Witch [UK: Aug]	7 ++					9 ++		7 ++
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus							10 -3				2 =
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]											16 + NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug]	5 =	6 ++	9 =	35 -7	5 ++	10 -3	x	5 =	7 +1	4 -1
Heaney trans., Beowulf	xxx..	xxx..	15 +	--	xxx..	xxx..	xxx.. gen	xxx..	xxx	18 =
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3]										22 ++ NYP
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep]									5 ++		42 -36 NYP
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]										3 -1 NYP	8 +9 NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling	8 -1	x		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xx		10 +3
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]										2 +1 NYP
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]										9 +3 NYP
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]											4 +1 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]										7 +2 NYP	3 +12 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]										6 -2 NYP	x NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	2 = ch	9 ch	4 -1	8 -1	x	3 =		1 series =	4 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK	1 = ch	1 ch	1 =	5 -1	x	2 =	1 = ch	1 series =	3 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	4 = ch	7 ch	10 -5	xxx..	x	7 +2		1 series =	8 -2 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	3 = ch		5 +		x	5 +1		1 series =	6 +1 ch
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?	3 ch-pic	x ch						1 = ch-pic
Fiction paperbacks
Harris, Hannibal	21 -2	xxx..		45 -8	xxx..		10 -5	xx	xxx	xxx..	4 =
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides	x			xxx
King, Hearts in Atlantis	9 -2			22 -6	xxx		xx	9 -4		17 -3	3 =
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug]							x
Martin, A Clash of Kings	31 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]							3 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug]	1		2 -1	1 =	x		4 = ch		2 -1 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	2	5 ch	3 =	2 +1	x		2 = ch	1 = series	1 +1 ch
Sachar, Holes	3			xx				1 = ch	7 -2 ch
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon			7 +						xx tpb	xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR										18 =
Nonfiction
King, On Writing										10 +9 NYP
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter	4								x 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.