Battle of the Terrys: The strongest SF or fantasy book on bestseller lists this week, aside from Harry Potter, is Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen. Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch has entered the Amazon list this week, but has slipped on three lists, and not entered several other lists at all. PW, LAT, and London Times all update their occasional children’s bestsellers lists this week. Eddings has dropped off London’s list after 11 weeks, while JG Ballard makes the list this week at #10. The Amazon UK lists do not appear to have been updated in the past two weeks. To Track or Not To Track: The table below does not track some literary books with SF components. Example: Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, which is on several lists now (and #1 at SFC). But we will track T.C. Boyle's A Friend of the Earth, which seems to be legitimate SF (a tale set in the future) even if it is by a literary writer. Boyle debuts on two lists this week. James Luceno's next Star Wars paperback shows up on the pre-publication bestseller lists this week. The New York Times, which has split its Children's Bestseller list into three portions, only one of which is run in the print NYT Book Review each week, has planned to post all three portions weekly on its website. But it hasn't happened yet. The table indicates which rankings are stale and which are updated this 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 1 Oct	LAT 24 Sep	SFC 24 Sep	USAT 20 Sep	WP 24 Sep	WSJ 22 Sep	London Times 24 Sep	PW 25 Sep	BookSense 25 Sep	Amz (20 Sep)	Amz UK [25 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
Ballard, Super-Cannes [UK]							10 ++
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]							8 -2
Boyle, A Friend of the Earth									11 ++	25 ++
Brooks, Ilse Witch [UK: Aug]	10 -3					x		12 -5		9 ++	5 NYP
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus							x				2 =
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]											x NYP
Gaiman, American Gods [UK: Nov]											42 ++ NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug]	11 -6	4 +2	14 -5	x	7 -2	x	xx	11 -6	x	8 -4
Heaney trans., Beowulf	xxx..	xxx..	x	--	xxx..	xxx..	xxx.. gen	xxx..	xxx	20 -2
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3]										19 +3 NYP
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep]		5 ++ ch							5 = ch
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]										2 +1 NYP	9 -1 NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling	12 -4	xx		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx		15 -5
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]										1 +1 NYP
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]										10 -1 NYP
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]											7 -3 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]										7 = NYP	21 -18 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]										6 = NYP	15 + NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	2 = ch	4 +5 ch	3 +1	9 -1	x	3 =		1 series =	4 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK	1 = ch	3 -2 ch	2 -1	4 +1	x	1 +1	1 = ch	1 series =	3 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	4 = ch	1 +6 ch	15 -5	xxx..	x	10 -3		1 series =	6 +2 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	3 = ch		8 -3		x	7 -2		1 series =	7 -1 ch
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?	3 = ch-pic	xx ch						2 -1 ch-pic
Fiction paperbacks
Harris, Hannibal	x	xxx..		x	xxx..		x	xxx	xxx..	xxx..	4 =
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides	xx			xxx..
King, Hearts in Atlantis	12 -3			29 -7	xxx..		xxx	12 -3		21 -4	3 =
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug]							xx
Luceno, Star Wars...Jedi Eclipse										21 ++ NYP	26 ++ NYP
Martin, A Clash of Kings	29 +2									20 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]							4 -1 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug]	1 chpb		1 +1	1 =	x		3 +1 ch	1 = ch series	2 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	2 chpb	2 +3 ch	3 =	3 -1	x		2 = ch	1 = series	1 = ch
Sachar, Holes	3 chpb			xxx				1 = ch	8 -1 ch
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon			x						xxx tpb	xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR										12 +6
Nonfiction
King, On Writing										5 +5 NYP	31 ++ NYP
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter	4							2 chnf	xx 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.