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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 29 October 2000


Anne Rice's Merrick (Knopf) is the genre news this week, debuting on six lists, as high as #2 on three of them, including NYT.

Another debut this week: George Saunders's The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp (Villard), a children's book by the award-winning surrealist writer, illustrated by Lane Smith.

The paperback of the second volume in Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy, The Subtle Knife, has appeared on Amazon's list this week, while the first volume has dropped off.

New on prepublication lists in the UK: Ken MacLeod's next novel, Cosmonaut Keep.

Not tracked, but noted: the paperback of Left Behind has reappeared on a couple lists with the release on videotape of the first Left Behind film, which in an odd reversal won't be released in theaters until next year. It’s #9 at USAT, #3 at Amazon.

The $1 Dover paperback of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is #10 on the LAT’s paperback fiction list 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
5 Nov
LAT
29 Oct
SFC
29 Oct
USAT
25 Oct
WP
29 Oct
WSJ
27 Oct
London
Times
29 Oct
PW
30 Oct
BookSense
30 Oct
Amz
(25 Oct)
Amz UK
[29 Oct]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25, 50 NYP 10, 50 NYP
Fiction hardcovers
Brooks, Ilse Witch 27 -5         xxx..   xx xxx.. xx  
Carr, Caleb, Killing Time                   23 = NYP  
Chabon, The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 30 + 3 +7 11 -3   x     xxx xx xx  
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]                     12 -7 NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug] 29 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. 24 -1  
Hamilton, Laurell, A Kiss of Shadows [US: Oct] 25 -4                 23 -5  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3] 12 -4   x xx   xx   12 -4   13 -8  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 6 = chhc 5 ++ ch           2 ++ ch fic xx ch xxx  
Jones/Sutton, Dark Terrors 5 [UK: 19 Oct]                     xx NYP
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]                   2 = NYP 2 +1 NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 20 -2 xx   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   25 =  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]                   1 = NYP  
Lightman, The Diagnosis     14 ++                
MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep [UK: 1 Nov]                     28 ++ NYP
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]                   5 = NYP  
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern [UK: Feb]                     27 -14 NYP
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]                     1 +1 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 5 -2 ch hc   3 -1 45 -35   x     3 -1 ch    
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct] 2 ++   7 ++ 5 ++   2 ++   2 ++ 4 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch hc 4 +5 ch 5 = 12 -4   5 -2   1 = ch series 5 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = ch hc 3 -2 ch 6 -2 6 -2   3 -2 1 = ch 1 = ch series 4 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 +1 ch hc 1 +6 ch xxx xxx..   xxx..   1 = ch series x ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 +1 ch hc   xxx     10 -2   1 = ch series 9 + ch    
Saunders, The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp 7 ++ ch hc                    
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? xxx ch-pic xx ch           3 -1 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Crichton, Timeline [UK]             4 -1        
King, Hearts in Atlantis 32 +     xx xxx..   xxx.. xxx   xxx..  
Luceno, Star Wars...Jedi Eclipse 17 -6     29 -12       15 -10   15 -12 x NYP
Pullman, The Golden Compass                   x  
Pullman, The Subtle Knife                   11 ++  
Rice, Vampire Armand 13 +9     43 +1              
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]             4 -1 ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 1 +1 ch pb   2 = 3 -2     3 +1 ch 1 = ch series 2 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 -1 ch pb 2 +3 ch 1 +2 2 +1     2 = ch 1 = ch series 1 +2 ch    
Sachar, Holes 3 = ch pb     xxx..       1 = ch fic 10 -2 ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   13 +2  
Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth                   xx NYP  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 3 = 3 -2 3 = 21 -10 3 ++ 5 ++   6 ++ 7 -3 7 -2  
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter xx ch pb             3 -1 ch nf xxx.. ch    
  NYT LAT SFC 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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