Locus Online
Monitor



The latest Locus Magazine bestseller list is here.


Linked titles can be browsed (or ordered) from Amazon.com Books.

BOOK REVIEW LINKS


BESTSELLER LINKS


BOOKSTORE LINKS

PUBLISHER LINKS


§

E-MAIL
LOCUS


SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 10 December 2000


Caleb Carr's Killing Time, which debuted on a couple lists three weeks ago, appears this week on three more lists, very strongly on two of them: #1 at WP, #3 at LAT.

Two paperback reprints debut this week: Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow and Dean Koontz's False Memory. Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn maintains a hold on a couple trade paperback lists.

Once again this week, Amazon's general hardcover and paperback lists do not appear to have been updated.
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
17 Dec
LAT
10 Dec
SFC
10 Dec
USAT
6 Dec
WP
10 Dec
WSJ
8 Dec
London
Times
10 Dec
PW
11 Dec
BookSense
11 Dec
Amz
(15 Nov)
Amz UK
[10 Dec]
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
Baum, Annotated Wizard of Oz x ch hc                    
Carr, Killing Time 18 -1 3 ++ 14 ++   1 ++     14 +1 14 -4    
Chabon, The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay xxx.. 14 + xx   xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]                   3 = NYP  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen 25 =   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   15 -3  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 6 = ch hc 5 ++ ch           3 -1 ch fic xxx.. ch xxx..  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] 6 = 15 -8 8 +1 19 -4 5 -4 6 -1 x 3 = 5 -1    
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye [US: Dec 26]                   7 +1 NYP  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 16 +2 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   21 +2  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] 1 = 11 -3   13 -8 2 ++ 4 -2   2 = 8 -1    
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct] 22 -2   xx xxx   xxx..   xxx xxx 9 ++  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov; US 7 Nov] xxx           1 =       1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 5 = ch hc   x xxx..   xxx..   1 ++ ch fic 8 -2 ch    
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct] 11 = 8 -7 x 42 -9 8 = xx   11 -2 xx 8 -2  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch hc x ch 2 +2 5 +2   3 =   1 = ch series 3 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = ch hc x ch 3 = 4 +2   2 +2 1 = ch 1 = ch series 9 -4 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 4 -3 ch xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   12 +     7 =   1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Salvatore, Servant of the Shard 33 -4     xxx..       xxx..      
Simmons, Darwin's Blade   xxx                  
Spiegelman & Mouly, Little Lit     x                
Tyers, Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Balance Point 30 =     xxx..       xxx..      
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? xxx.. ch-pic xxx ch           9 -6 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Ender's Shadow 29 ++               5 ++    
Crichton, Timeline 1 +1 5 -4   11 -1 3 -2   xxx 1 = 1 = 11 -2  
Koontz, False Memory 5 ++     12 ++       2 ++      
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn [tpb]   8 +             11 -2 tpb    
Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister                 x    
Martin, A Clash of Kings                   21 +  
Martin, A Game of Thrones                   14 +2  
Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant [UK]             3 -1        
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 10 = xxx..  
Pullman, The Subtle Knife                   2 +4  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]             4 -1 ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 2 = ch pb   6 -1 2 +1     3 +1 ch 1 = ch series 2 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = ch pb 8 -6 ch 5 -3 1 =     2 = ch 1 = ch series 1 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 5 = ch pb     xxx..       2 -1 ch fic xxx.. ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   10 +5  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 9 -1 xxx.. xx xxx x xxx   15 -4 xxx 10 -3  
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter xxx.. ch pb             4 -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.  

TOP  
© 2000 by Locus Publications. All rights reserved.