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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 30 September 2001


Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax (Del Rey) debuts strongly this week on 6 lists both in the US and UK, though the dominant genre title on bestseller lists is still Stephen King & Peter Straub's Black House (Random House; HarperCollins in the UK). In its second week the King/Straub novel ranks on all lists except for BookSense's, which hasn't been updated, and the Washington Post and Amazon lists, which habitually lag the others.

T.C. Boyle's After the Plague and Other Stories (Viking), which includes several genre-oriented stories, places this week at the author's near-to-hometown newspaper, the LA Times.

Title NYT
7 Oct
LAT
30 Sep
SFC
30 Sep
USAT
27 Sep
WP
30 Sep
WSJ
30 Sep
London
Times
30 Sep
PW
1 Oct
BookSense
24 Sep
stale
Amz
(1 Oct)
Amz UK
[1 Oct]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Boyle, After the Plague   13 ++                  
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax 7 ++     14 ++   3 ++ 9 ++ 5 ++     9 ++
Haydon, Destiny                   xx  
James Herbert, Once             3 +3       3 +3
Jacques, Taggerung 2 =   15 -3 45 -9   7 -3          
King/Straub, Black House 1 = 5 ++ 2 ++ 2 +2   1 = 1 +3 1 =     1 +3
Le Guin, The Other Wind     xx                
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 8 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xx   x 3 -- 6 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 +2 xxx.. x 40 +4   11 +2 4 -- 10 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 9 + xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 7 =   xxx..     xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Wilson, The Chronoliths                   x  
Fiction paperbacks
Brooks, Voyage of Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch 26 +2     xx       xx      
Grimwood, Replay                   x  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen 24 +2     x       13 +1 7 =    
Jacques, Lord Brocktree xx                    
King, Hearts in Atlantis 2 +8     7 +13       2 +7      
King/Straub, The Talisman 13 +10     39 +10       xxx..   7 +1  
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... xx 6 -5 xxx.. xxx..     5 3 +1 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 =   7 ++ 1 =     4        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = 6 + xxx.. 11 -2     3 -- 4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = 3 +1 xxx.. 5 -2     2 -- 3 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages x 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 +1 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes 9 -3     xxx..       2 -1 xxx    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   16 =       14 + 3 =    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   xx   46 +           6 +1 mm, 3 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. x   34 -4       15 + mm, 15 + tpb 10 =    
Nonfiction paperbacks
Fraser, Conversations with J.K. Rowling 6 +1                    
King, On Writing x                    
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW BookSense Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists Italics indicates stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before

The table compiles SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists. The table shows 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.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.  

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