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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 25 February 2001


Anne McCaffrey's presence in the top 10 of the two available UK bestseller lists makes her book, on average, the highest placing genre book on general lists this week. In the US, the paperback of Thomas Harris's Hannibal continues to rise on lists following release of the film.

Brian Jacques's The Legend of Luke and the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf appear on paperback lists for the first time this week.

Arthur C. Clarke's Collected Stories debuts on Amazon's hardcover fiction list this week, at #22.

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
4 Mar
LAT
25 Feb
SFC
25 Feb
USAT
22 Feb
WP
25 Feb
WSJ
23 Feb
London
Times
25 Feb
PW
26 Feb
BookSense
26 Feb
Amz
(21 Feb)
Amz UK
[25 Feb]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon 27 = xxx.. x xxx..       xx xx 11 -2  
Clarke, Collected Stories                   22 ++  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] x ch hc 5 = ch           5 -2 ch fic xxx.. ch xxx..  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] 30 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 8 +1 15 + xxx.. xxx x 7 +4   6 -1 xxx 15 =  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] 15 -5 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx xxx.. 14 =  
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern             9 -1       8 =
Powers, Declare   x                  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov; US 7 Nov] xxx..           x       10 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 6 = ch hc   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   2 -1 ch fic 10 + ch    
Reaves, SW Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter 9 +2         10 =   12 -3   x  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = ch hc x ch 10 = 15 +4   3 = 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 3 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 2 = ch hc x ch 8 = 16 +4   4 = 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 5 + ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 4 -3 ch xxx.. xxx..   xxx 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   xxx..     xxx 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Turtledove, Colonization: Aftershocks 32 =                    
Fiction paperbacks
Crichton, Timeline 26 +3     x xxx..   xxx.. xxx 17 + x  
Harris, Hannibal 3 = 9 +1   5 = 10 =   5 + 2 = 2 = 4 +2 7 =
Heaney, Beowulf         9 ++            
Jacques, The Legend of Luke 10 ++                    
Koontz, False Memory 32 +2     41 -2 xxx..     x   xxx..  
Pullman, The Golden Compass               4 -1 ch fic      
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               x ch fic   xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 1 +1 ch pb   xxx.. 10 +3       1 = ch series 2 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 -1 ch pb 8 -6 ch x 9 +2       1 = ch series 1 +2 ch    
Sachar, Holes 3 +1 ch pb     xxx..       3 -1 ch fic xx ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   15 +1  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 21 +1 xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xx  
  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)

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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