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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 10 June 2001


New this week: James Luceno's Star Wars: Cloak of Deception (Ballantine) debuts on three lists, ranking from #9 to #12. And the paperback of John Saul's Nightshade (Ballantine) debuts on the NYT and USA Today lists.

The trade paperback of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon shows up on Amazon's list this week, while various editions of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings appear on several lists, all presumably in response to publicity for forthcoming TV and film adaptations of these books. (Combined sets of Tolkien have been steady sellers at Amazon for months.)

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
17 Jun
LAT
10 Jun
SFC
10 Jun
USAT
7 Jun
WP
10 Jun
WSJ
8 Jun
London
Times
10 Jun
PW
11 Jun
BookSense
4/11 Jun
Amz
(6 Jun)
Amz UK
[10 Jun]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Bradley/Paxson, The Priestess of Avalon 35 -9                 21 +3  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 4 -1 ch hc             5 ++ ch fic 14 (runner-up)    
Jacques, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman xxx.. ch hc         xxx..   6 -2 ch fic xxx..    
King, Dreamcatcher 6 -2 xxx.. 10 + 50 -6 xxx.. 11 -5 8 -2 7 +1 xxx 18 + 8 -1
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark 16 +6 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Luceno, Star Wars: Cloak of Deception 12 ++         9 ++   10 ++      
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern 28 +3   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 12 +5  
Pratchett, Thief of Time xxx.. xx 13 -1       2 -1     xxx 1 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx.. ch hc   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   10 -2 ch fic xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch hc xxx.. ch xx 45 +1   6 +4 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 10 + ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = ch hc xxx.. ch xxx xx   8 +4 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 8 +1 ch hc xxx ch xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 7 +1 ch hc   xxx..     xxx.. 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Williams, Otherland: Sea of Silver Light xxx..   x             xx  
Fiction paperbacks
Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy                   x  
Bradley, The Mists of Avalon                   15 +  
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 4 +1 ch pb 6 -5 ch xxx.. xxx..       1 = ch fic 4 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 +1 ch pb x ch xxx.. 17 +11       1 = ch series 7 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 -1 ch pb 4 -1 ch xxx 15 +10       1 = ch series 5 +1 ch    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 5 -1 ch pb 1 +1 ch xxx.. xxx..       2 = ch fic 8 -3 ch    
Sachar, Holes 6 = ch pb     xxx..       4 -1 ch fic xxx.. ch    
Saul, Nightshade 16 ++     30 ++              
Tolkien, The Hobbit       46 +         10 =    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   xx ch               2 +11mm, 25 tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR 32 +                    
  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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