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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 24 June 2001


Except for Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time in the UK, and J.K. Rowling's paperbacks, no SFFH books have been prominent among general bestsellers for several weeks now. Even hardcovers by Stephen King and Rowling still appear on only a few lists.

New this week: a reissue paperback edition of Dean Koontz's Whispers appears on three lists.

Though not exactly SFF or H, "Lemony Snicket"'s morbid A Series of Unfortunate Events volumes occupy no less than 5 spots on the NYT children's chapter list this week. Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, is on the cover of the June 18 Publishers Weekly, and he's on Entertainment Weekly's "It" List for June 29/July 6.

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
1 Jul
LAT
24 Jun
SFC
24 Jun
USAT
22 Jun
WP
24 Jun
WSJ
22 Jun
London
Times
24 Jun
PW
25 Jun
BookSense
25 Jun
Amz
(20 Jun)
Amz UK
[24 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 xx                 x  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 4 = ch hc             3 +2 ch fic 3 +    
Joy, Ritual of Proof x                    
King, Dreamcatcher 6 +1 xxx.. xx xx xxx.. 11 = 8 + 7 = xxx.. 16 -1 x
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark 21 +5 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Luceno, Star Wars: Cloak of Deception 24 -11         x   x      
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern xx   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 8 +1  
Pratchett, Thief of Time xxx.. xxx.. xx       3 -1     xxx.. 2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = ch hc xxx.. ch xxx.. x   5 +2 3 ch hc 1 = ch series xx ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 2 = ch hc xxx.. ch 15 -4 xxx..   12 -3 4 ch 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 8 = ch hc xxx ch xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 7 = ch hc   xxx..     xxx.. x 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Fiction paperbacks
Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy                   24 -5  
Bradley, The Mists of Avalon                   xx  
Koontz, Whispers 8 ++     20 ++       11 ++      
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 4 = ch pb 6 -5 ch xxx.. xxx..     5 ch 1 = ch fic 7 -3 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban             3 ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 +1 ch pb x ch xxx.. 39 -15     2 ch 1 = ch series 5 + ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 -1 ch pb 4 -1 ch xxx.. 27 -10     1 ch 1 = ch series 4 +1 ch    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 5 = ch pb 1 +1 ch xxx.. xxx..       2 = ch fic 9 + ch    
Sachar, Holes 6 = ch pb     xxx..       4 = ch fic 10 -2 ch    
Saul, Nightshade 21 -3     48 -25              
Tolkien, The Hobbit       41 -3       10 + 7 -3    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   xx ch               1 = mm, 11 +2 tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR x                    
  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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