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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 28 October 2001


Anne Rice's latest vampire novel, Blood and Gold (Knopf), debuts on five lists, as high as #2 on the Wall Street Journal list.

Titles by Barker, Boyle, and Bradbury have dropped off lists after just one or two weeks. Novels by Brooks and by Herbert & Anderson show up on Amazon's list this week, after debuting on other lists several weeks ago.

Terry Pratchett's illustrated Discworld novella The Last Hero debuts at #3 on the Times of London's list.

Title NYT
4 Nov
LAT
28 Oct
SFC
28 Oct
USAT
24 Oct
WP
28 Oct
WSJ
26 Oct
London
Times
28 Oct
PW
29 Oct
BookSense
29 Oct
Amz
(28 Oct)
Amz UK
[28 Oct]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Barker, Coldheart Canyon x                    
Boyle, After the Plague   x                  
Bradbury, From the Dust Returned x x                  
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax 13 -1 14 -5   xxx   14 -3 xxx.. 11 -2   8 ++ xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl               x      
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 8 -3     x 7 ++ 10 -6   8 -3      
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 12 -3   3 = x 10 -7 11 -3   10 -2 x 4 ++  
James Herbert, Once             9 -2       7 -1
Jacques, Taggerung 4 +1   xxx.. xxx..   x   2 ++ x    
King/Straub, Black House 6 -2 x xxx.. 24 -7 xx 7 -1 7 -1 6 = 14 -5 3 = 6 -4
Koontz, The Paper Doorway   2 +3                  
Lackey, Take a Thief 25 -1                    
Le Guin, The Other Wind   x 5 =                
Pratchett, The Last Hero             3 ++        
Rice, Blood and Gold 5 ++     7 ++   2 ++   3 ++ 8 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 8 -2   xxx.. xxx..   xxx 3 -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 =   xxx 29 +8   8 +1 4 -- 10 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 7 =   xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 +2   xxx..     xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Tolkien, LOTR boxed set                   23 -4  
Fiction paperbacks
Brooks, Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch xx     xxx..       xxx..      
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen x     xxx..       xxx.. xxx..    
Jacques, Lord Brocktree               6 ++      
King, Hearts in Atlantis 5 -1 x   28 -6       8 -5 10 -5 15 -6  
King/Straub, The Talisman 28 -1     xx       xxx..   11 =  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass 7 -2               7 -1    
Rice, Merrick 20 +1     50 =       14 ++      
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 10 +   xxx.. xxx..     x 3 = xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 -1   xxx.. 2 =     4   1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             2        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 = 6 + xxx.. 6 +2     3 -- 4 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 +1 3 +1 xxx.. 1 =     1 -- 2 +1    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xxx 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 = xxx..    
Sachar, Holes xxx     xxx..       5 -3 xxx    
Star Trek Gateways 1-6 xx                    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   23 +1       11 -4 3 -1    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx           4 = mm, 3 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. xxx..   34 +8 (F)       xxx mm, xxx tpb 5 -1 (F)    
Nonfiction paperbacks
Fraser, Conversations with J.K. Rowling xxx..                    
King, On Writing xxx                    
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW BookSense Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists Italics indicates stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before

The table compiles SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists. The table shows 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.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.  

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