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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 4 March 2001


Anne McCaffrey's The Skies of Pern remains in the top 10 on both UK bestseller lists charted below, while Terry Pratchett's The Truth has finally dropped off both UK lists.

Michael Reaves's Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter still ranks on three lists; Dean Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye on five lists. Otherwise, SF/F/H presence on general hardcover lists is pretty thin.

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
11 Mar
LAT
4 Mar
SFC
4 Mar
USAT
1 Mar
WP
4 Mar
WSJ
2 Mar
London
Times
4 Mar
PW
5 Mar
BookSense
5 Mar
Amz
(28 Feb)
Amz UK
[4 Mar]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon 33 -6 xxx.. 13 + xxx..       xxx xxx 15 -4  
Clarke, Collected Stories                   x  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] xx ch hc 5 = ch           5 -2 ch fic xxx.. ch xxx..  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 11 -3 10 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xx 12 -5   8 -2 xxx.. 18 -3  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] 9 +6 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 11 +3  
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern             9 =       9 -1
Powers, Declare   xx                  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov; US 7 Nov] xxx..           xx       x
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 8 -2 ch hc   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   2 -1 ch fic x ch    
Reaves, SW Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter 12 -3         13 -3   12 =   xx  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = ch hc x ch 4 +6 15 =   3 = 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 3 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 2 = ch hc x ch 7 +1 14 +2   6 -2 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 7 -2 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 4 -3 ch xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   15 +     xxx.. 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Turtledove, Colonization: Aftershocks x                    
Weber, Changer of Worlds 35 ++                    
Fiction paperbacks
Crichton, Timeline 31 -5     xx xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 6 +1 xx  
Harris, Hannibal 4 -1 4 +5   6 -1 5 +5   2 +3 2 = 5 -3 4 = 4 +3
Heaney, Beowulf         3 +6            
Jacques, The Legend of Luke 5 +5 ch pb                    
Koontz, False Memory 33 -1     44 -3 xxx..     xx   xxx..  
Pullman, The Golden Compass               4 -1 ch fic      
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               x ch fic   xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 1 = ch pb   xxx.. 7 +3       1 = ch series 1 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = ch pb 8 -6 ch xx 8 +1       1 = ch series 2 -1 ch    
Sachar, Holes 3 = ch pb     xxx..       3 -1 ch fic xxx ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   14 +1  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 21 = xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx  
  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)

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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