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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 4 November 2001


Two titles reach #1 this week: in the UK, Terry Pratchett's Discworld novella, illustrated by Paul Kidby, The Last Hero (Gollancz), reaches the top spot on the Times of London's hardcover fiction list. And in Los Angeles, Dean Koontz's volume of funny verse, The Paper Doorway (HarperCollins), reaches #1 on the LA Times fiction hardcover list.

Anne Rice's Blood and Gold (Knopf) debuts on three more lists this week; it's among the top 10 on seven lists in all.

Title NYT
11 Nov
LAT
4 Nov
SFC
4 Nov
USAT
1 Nov
WP
4 Nov
WSJ
2 Nov
London
Times
4 Nov
PW
5 Nov
BookSense
5 Nov
Amz
(4 Nov)
Amz UK
[4 Nov]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Barker, Coldheart Canyon xx 6 ++                  
Boyle, After the Plague   xx                  
Bradbury, From the Dust Returned xx xx                  
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax 17 -4 x   xxx..   x xxx.. 15 -4   13 -5 xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl               x      
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 11 -3     xx x 12 -2   13 -5      
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 15 -3   4 -1 xx 9 +1 13 -2   11 -1 xx 9 -5  
James Herbert, Once             8 +1       9 -2
Jacques, Taggerung 5 -1   xxx.. xxx..   xx   2 ++ xx    
King/Straub, Black House 7 -1 14 + xxx.. 30 -6 xxx 9 -2 9 -2 8 -2 13 +1 3 = 7 -1
Koontz, The Paper Doorway   1 +1                  
Lackey, Take a Thief 35 -10                 23 ++  
Le Guin, The Other Wind   xx x                
Pratchett, The Last Hero             1 +2       3 ++
Rice, Blood and Gold 5 = 10 ++ 5 ++ 11 -4 5 ++ 3 -1   3 = 6 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 7 +1   xxx.. xxx..   xxx 3 -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 =   xxx 27 +2   8 = 4 -- 8 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 +3   xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 =   xxx..     xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Tolkien, LOTR boxed set                   x  
Fiction paperbacks
Brooks, Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch xxx     xxx..       xxx..      
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen xx     xxx..       xxx.. xxx..    
Jacques, Lord Brocktree               6 ++      
King, Hearts in Atlantis 8 -3 xx   39 -11       11 -3 9 +1 x  
King/Straub, The Talisman 30 -2     xxx       xxx..   21 -10  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass 8 -1               x    
Rice, Merrick 21 -1     x       15 -1      
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... x   xxx.. xxx..     x 3 = xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 =   xxx.. 3 -1     4   1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             2        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 = 6 + xxx.. 7 -1     3 -- x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 3 +1 xxx.. 1 =     1 -- 3 -1    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 10 + 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 = xxx..    
Sachar, Holes 9 +     xxx..       5 -3 xxx    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   21 +2       4 +7 4 -1    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx..           5 -1 mm, 7 -4 tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. xxx..   37 -3 (F)       14 + mm, xxx.. tpb 6 -1 (F)    
  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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