The most prominent SF-related book on the lists this week -- even thought it's not really an SF title -- is Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, a literary novel about two sisters, one of whom has written an SF novel called ''The Blind Assassin''. It places this week #1 at LAT and SFC, #2 at BookSense, #3 at Amazon, #7 at NYT. Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a little slower to rank on the lists; but it does show up at #11 on the BookSense list this week. Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen slips a bit this week while Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch maintains. The Amazon UK hardcover and paperback fiction lists do not appear to have been updated for three weeks now; they've been colored 'stale' in the table below.
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 8 Oct	LAT 1 Oct	SFC 1 Oct	USAT 27 Sep	WP 1 Oct	WSJ 29 Sep	London Times 1 Oct	PW 2 Oct	BookSense 2 Oct	Amz (27 Sep)	Amz UK [1 Oct]
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]							x
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]							10 -2
Boyle, A Friend of the Earth									14 -3	x
Brooks, Ilse Witch [UK: Aug]	9 +1					xx		8 +4	15 ++	17 -8
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus							xx				2 =
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]											xx NYP
Gaiman, American Gods [UK: Nov]											x NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug]	13 -2	x	x	xx	8 -1	xx	xxx	11 =	xx	12 -4
Heaney trans., Beowulf	xxx..	xxx..	xx	--	xxx..	xxx..	xxx.. gen	xxx..	xxx..	x
Hamilton, Laurell, A Kiss of Shadows [US: Oct]										25 ++ NYP
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3]										19 = NYP
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep]	5 ++ chhc	5 ++ ch							6 -1 ch	14 ++
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]										4 -2 NYP	9 = NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling	10 +2	xxx		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		23 -8
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]										2 -1 NYP
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]										12 -2 NYP
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]											8 -1 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]										7 = NYP	7 +14 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]										8 -2 NYP	x NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	2 = chhc	4 +5 ch	8 -5	8 +1	x	4 -1		1 series =	4 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK	1 = chhc	3 -2 ch	2 =	4 =	x	2 -1	1 = ch	1 series =	3 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	4 = chhc	1 +6 ch	5 +10	xxx..	x	x		1 series =	8 -2 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	3 = chhc		9 -1		x	6 +1		1 series =	5 +2 ch
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?	3 = ch-pic	xx ch						2 -1 ch-pic
Fiction paperbacks
Harris, Hannibal	xx	xxx..		xx	xxx..		xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	4 =
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Atreides	xxx			xxx..
King, Hearts in Atlantis	15 -3			31 -2	xxx..		xxx..	14 -2		x	3 =
Koontz, False Memory [UK pb 3 Aug]							xxx
Luceno, Star Wars...Jedi Eclipse										24 -3 NYP	x NYP
Martin, A Clash of Kings	31 -2									25 -5
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]							4 -1 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug]	1 chpb		3 -2	1 =	x		3 +1 ch	1 = ch series	2 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	2 chpb	2 +3 ch	1 +2	3 =	x		2 = ch	1 = series	1 = ch
Sachar, Holes	3 chpb			xxx..				1 = ch	9 -1 ch
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon			xx						xxx.. tpb	xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR										15 -3
Nonfiction
King, On Writing										6 -1 NYP	46 -15 NYP
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter	4 chpb							2 chnf	xxx 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.