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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 14 January 2001


Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Hegemon (Tor) debuts impressively on five lists this week, as high as #4 on the PW list and at #5 on two others.

Dean Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye remains at #1 on three lists, debuts on one list, and slips on two lists.

Terry Pratchett's The Truth slips to #2 on one UK list, but remains #1 on the other UK list.

PW updates its Children's Bestseller Lists for January this week; December lists never were posted.
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
21 Jan
LAT
14 Jan
SFC
14 Jan
USAT
11 Jan
WP
14Jan
WSJ
12 Jan
London
Times
14 Jan
PW
15 Jan
BookSense
15 Jan
Amz
(10 Jan)
Amz UK
[13 Jan]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Baum, Annotated Wizard of Oz xx ch hc                    
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon 5 ++   5 ++ 41 ++       4 ++ 10 ++    
Carr, Killing Time x xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. xxx  
Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay   5 + 11 +                
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus 22 -1                    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen x   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 6 +1 ch hc 5 = ch           5 -2 ch fic xxx.. ch xxx..  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] 18 -5 xxx.. x xxx xx xxx.. xxx.. 15 -5 15 -4 17 -1  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 1 = 10 -9   10 -2   1 =   1 = 11 ++    
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 13 +6 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] 3 = xx   x xx 9 +   6 +3 xxx.. 9 +2  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct] x   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov; US 7 Nov] xxx..           2 -1       1 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 5 = ch hc   14 -3 xxx..   xxx..   1 = ch fic 7 +3 ch    
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct] 21 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx..   x xxx 16 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = ch hc x ch 4 +3 6 +2   1 +1 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 3 +2 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 2 = ch hc x ch 2 +2 11 -5   3 = 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 4 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 4 -3 ch xxx.. xxx..   6 +2 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   13 +1     5 = 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Spiegelman & Mouly, Little Lit     xx                
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? xxx.. ch-pic xxx ch           x ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Ender's Game               xx   x  
Card, Ender's Shadow 25 -2             x xxx 13 =  
Crichton, Timeline 8 -2 3 +2   18 -5 2 +2   10 + 6 -1 3 -2 9 -1  
Harris, Hannibal [UK]             xxx        
Herbert, Dune                   15 -5  
Herbert, Dune Messiah                   xxx  
Koontz, False Memory 5 = 7 ++   13 -6 10 +     4 =   17 +7  
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn [tpb]   xxx..             15 -4 tpb    
Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant [UK]             x       7 =
Pullman, The Golden Compass               3 +      
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               4 +   21 -10  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 2 = ch pb   10 -2 4 -1       1 = ch series 2 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = ch pb 8 -6 ch 4 -2 3 -1       1 = ch series 1 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 4 +1 ch pb     xxx..       2 -1 ch fic 9 + ch    
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon                   x  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   25 -19  
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Fallen Sun 32 ++                    
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 11 -1 13 + xxx.. x xx xxx..   15 -1 xxx.. 7 +15  
  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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