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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 8 October 2000


Not much change this week. Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen and Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch hold on to a few lists; associational novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon has debuted on two more lists.

Newly published books by Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephen King, and Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson have dropped off pre-publication bestseller lists and have yet to show up on regular lists.

Starting this week, NYT updates all three categories of its children’s bestseller lists -- paperbacks, picture books, and chapter books -- on its website.

Amazon UK has not updated its hardcover and paperback fiction lists for a month now.
This cell color indicates forthcoming books: Amazon US/UK not-yet-published (NYP) rankings 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
15 Oct
LAT
8 Oct
SFC
8 Oct
USAT
5 Oct
WP
8 Oct
WSJ
6 Oct
London
Times
8 Oct
PW
9 Oct
BookSense
9 Oct
Amz
(4 Oct)
Amz UK
[7 Oct]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25, 50 NYP 10, 50 NYP
Fiction hardcovers
Ballard, Super-Cannes [UK]             xx        
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]             9 +1        
Boyle, A Friend of the Earth         8 ++       x xx  
Brooks, Ilse Witch [UK: Aug] 11 -2         xxx   10 -2 x 14 +3  
Chabon, The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 18 ++             15 ++ 8 +3 5 ++  
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus             xxx       2 =
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]                     25 + NYP
Gaiman, American Gods [UK: Nov]                     xx NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug] 14 -1 xx xx xxx x xxx xxx.. 12 -1 xxx 17 -5  
Hamilton, Laurell, A Kiss of Shadows [US: Oct]                      
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3]                   x NYP  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 5 = chhc 5 ++ ch             8 -2 ch 22 -8  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]                   3 +1 NYP 4 +5 NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 16 -6 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   21 +2  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]                   1 +1 NYP  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]                   6 +6 NYP  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]                     3 +5 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov]                   4 +3 NYP 2 +5 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]                   5 +3 NYP xx NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = chhc 4 +5 ch 9 -1 10 -2   6 -2   1 series = 4 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = chhc 3 -2 ch 2 = 4 =   2 = 1 = ch 1 series = 3 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = chhc 1 +6 ch 10 -5 xxx..   xx   1 series = 7 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = chhc   14 -5   x 9 -3   1 series = x ch    
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? 4 -1 ch-pic xx ch           2 -1 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
King, Hearts in Atlantis 15 =     29 +2 xxx..   xxx.. 14 =   xx 3 =
Luceno, Star Wars...Jedi Eclipse                   x NYP 9 + NYP
Martin, A Clash of Kings x                 x  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]             4 -1 ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 1 = chpb   2 +1 1 =     3 +1 ch 1 = ch series 1 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = chpb 2 +3 ch 3 -2 3 =     2 = ch 1 = series 2 -1 ch    
Sachar, Holes 3 = chpb     xxx..       1 = ch 6 +3 ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   9 +6  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing                   x NYP x NYP
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter 7 -3 chpb             2 chnf xxx.. ch    
  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)
   () below cut-off but noted anyway
   -- previously noted anyway but now nowhere in sight
   nyp Not-yet-published (pre-ordered)

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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