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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 15 October 2000


Several genre books debut on general bestseller lists this week, most prominently Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Dune: House Harkonnen (Bantam Spectra), which appears on five lists, as high as #8. Also debuting this week, after a one week gap from dropping off pre-publication lists: Laurell K. Hamilton's A Kiss of Shadows (Ballantine), Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass (Knopf), Stephen King's nonfiction On Writing (Scribner), and James Luceno's paperback Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Del Rey).

PW has updated its children's lists for October.

A couple associational books (not in the table below) are selling well: Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, and a short novel by Mark Salzman, Lying Awake (Knopf), about a nun whose visions might be medically cured (see New SFFH Books in October for more). Salzman debuted last week on the LAT list and is up to #1 this week; it's also in the top 10 at Amazon and SFC.
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
22 Oct
LAT
15 Oct
SFC
15 Oct
USAT
13 Oct
WP
15 Oct
WSJ
13 Oct
London
Times
15 Oct
PW
16 Oct
BookSense
16 Oct
Amz
(11 Oct)
Amz UK
[13 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
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]             x        
Boyle, A Friend of the Earth         x       xx xxx  
Brooks, Ilse Witch 16 -5         xxx..   15 -5 xx 24 -10  
Chabon, The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 29 -11 4 ++ 5 ++         x 13 -5 15 -10  
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]                     24 +1 NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug] 25 -11 xxx xxx xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. 19 -2  
Hamilton, Laurell, A Kiss of Shadows [US: Oct] 14 ++                    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3] 11 ++   9 ++ 45 ++   10 ++   8 ++      
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 5 = chhc 5 ++ ch           2 ++ ch fic 10 -2 ch x  
Jones/Sutton, Dark Terrors 5 [UK: 19 Oct]                     47 ++ NYP
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]                   4 -1 NYP 4 = NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 17 -1 14 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   20 +1  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]                   1 = NYP  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]                   6 = NYP  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]                     1 +2 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 8 ++ ch hc                   2 = NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]                   3 +2 NYP 15 + NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch hc 4 +5 ch 6 +3 16 -6   5 +1   1 = ch series 5 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = ch hc 3 -2 ch 2 = 5 -1   2 = 1 = ch 1 = ch series 3 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 1 +6 ch x xxx..   xxx   1 = ch series 9 -2 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   x     x   1 = ch series 8 + ch    
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? x ch-pic xx ch           3 -1 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Crichton, Timeline [UK]             5 ++        
King, Hearts in Atlantis 24 -9     30 -1 xxx..   xxx.. x   xxx 3 =
Luceno, Star Wars...Jedi Eclipse 10 ++     13 ++       4 ++     6 +3 NYP
Martin, A Clash of Kings xx                 xx  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]             4 -1 ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 1 = ch pb   1 +1 2 -1     3 +1 ch 1 = ch series 1 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = ch pb 2 +3 ch 3 = 4 -1     2 = ch 1 = ch series 2 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 3 = ch pb     xxx..       1 = ch fic 7 -1 ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   13 -4  
Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth                   21 ++ NYP  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing     2 ++ 7 ++              
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter 7 = ch pb             3 -1 ch nf 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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