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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 24 December 2000


Most genre titles slip this week, except for the Harry Potter books, which rise a bit on mosts lists, perhaps due to holiday sales. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is back at #1 on the Wall Street Journal list.

The other genre success story is Terry Pratchett, whose The Truth has slipped to #2 after six weeks at #1 on the Times of London's list, and still ranks at #1 on the Amazon UK list this week.

The UK paperback of Thomas Harris's Hannibal debuts this week at #1 on the Times of London list. The paperback of Terry Pratchett's The Fifth Elephant has mysteriously disappeared from that list (it's been #2 or #3 for several weeks), but is #3 this week on Amazon UK's paperback list.

Leading the Not-yet-published list this week on Amazon (no longer compiled in the table below) are forthcoming titles by Koontz, Card, and McCaffrey.

Publishers Weekly appears to have taken a week off; the column in the table below shows last week's ranks.
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
31 Dec
LAT
24 Dec
SFC
24 Dec
USAT
20 Dec
WP
24 Dec
WSJ
22 Dec
London
Times
24 Dec
PW
18 Dec
BookSense
25 Dec
Amz
(20 Dec)
Amz UK
[24 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 25 -3 xx xx   xx     x xx 25 -7  
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus 22 -3                    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen 32 -4   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   x  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 6 +1 ch hc 5 ++ ch           3 -1 ch fic xxx.. ch xxx..  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] 12 -2 x x 48 -2 9 = xx xxx 8 -5 11 -5 14 -2  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 30 -3 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xx  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] 1 = x   26 -3 8 -4 8 -2   2 = xx 8 -1  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct] 35 -3   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. x  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov; US 7 Nov] xxx..           2 -1       1 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 5 = ch hc   15 -9 xxx..   xxx..   1 ++ ch fic 10 -1 ch    
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct] 14 -1 x xxx 47 + xx xxx..   13 -2 x 11 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch hc x ch 9 + 7 +2   2 +1 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 5 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = ch hc x ch 10 -5 6 =   1 +1 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 6 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 4 -3 ch x xxx..   6 +1 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   13 +     3 +2 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Salvatore, Servant of the Shard xx     xxx..       xxx..      
Spiegelman & Mouly, Little Lit     7 +4                
Tyers, Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Balance Point x     xxx..       xxx..      
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? xxx.. ch-pic xxx ch           9 -6 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Ender's Shadow 23 +2               xx 14 -1  
Crichton, Timeline 4 = 3 +2   15 -1 1 =   x 3 -2 1 = 7 -1  
Harris, Hannibal [UK]             1 ++        
Herbert, Dune                   8 =  
Herbert, Dune Messiah                   24 -4  
Koontz, False Memory 3 = 7 ++   12 = 3 ++     2 =      
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn [tpb]   x             10 = tpb    
Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant [UK]             x       3
Pullman, The Subtle Knife                   9 -2  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 2 = ch pb   x 2 +1     3 +1 ch 1 = ch series 2 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = ch pb 8 -6 ch 9 + 1 +1     2 = ch 1 = ch series 1 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 6 = ch pb     xxx..       2 -1 ch fic xxx.. ch    
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon                   25 +  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   6 -1  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 11 = x xxx.. xxx.. 6 = xxx..   x xxx.. 16 +2  
  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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