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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 25 November 2001


Terry Pratchett is #1 on both UK hardcover lists, and both UK paperback lists, compiled this week, with The Last Hero on the former, and The Truth on the latter.

Interesting though hardly surprising is the upsurge of Harry Potter sales. The books are reappearing, in both hardcover and paperback, on lists--like the Los Angeles Times's--we'd thought had banished the titles for their YA status, not because of declining sales.

Title NYT
2 Dec
LAT
25 Nov
SFC
25 Nov stale
USAT
23 Nov
WP
25 Nov
WSJ
23 Nov
London
Times
25 Nov
PW
26 Nov
BookSense
26 Nov
Amz
(26 Nov)
Amz UK
[26 Nov]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax 28 -1 xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx   25 -3 xxx..
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star 16 +1 x   x   x   13 -1   13 ++  
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 30 -5 xx   xxx.. xxx.. xxx   xxx   20 -6  
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 27 -3 xx xx xxx.. xxx xxx   xxx xxx.. 10 -4  
James Herbert, Once             10 =       x
Jacques, Taggerung 8 =   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   2 = xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 15 +1 x xxx.. 49 +1 xxx.. 15 + xx 14 + xxx 9 -2 x
Pratchett, The Last Hero             1 =       1 =
Rice, Blood and Gold 13 = 10 -7 xx 44 -13 8 = 14 -3   8 +1 xxx 6 -3  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 4 +1   xxx.. xxx..   xxx   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = 14 + xxx 5 +7   5 +2   -- 4 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 +1   10 + xxx..   xxx..   -- 9 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 =   xxx..     2 +   -- 5 +5    
Salvatore, Sea of Swords 19 -1     xx   xx   x   12 ++  
Fiction paperbacks
Eddings & Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus 31 +2             x      
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen 15 ++     48 -8       10 +1 x    
King, Hearts in Atlantis 27 +5 xxx..   xxx       xx xxx xxx..  
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation 6 +6     38 +7              
Pratchett, The Truth             1 +1       1 +1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx             1 ++ xx    
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 10 +   xxx.. xxx..       6 -3 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 -1 3 + 7 + 3 +1     9   3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             8        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 +1   10 + 2 +4     7 -- 2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 1 + 3 + 1 =     6 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 8 +   xxx.. xxx..       7 -3 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes x     xxx..       4 +1 xxx..    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   9 +   11 +3       6 +2 2 +1    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       18 +28         x tpb 2 +2 mm, 4 +2 tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR       45 +7         14 ++ tpb    
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. xxx..   9 =       1 +5 mm 1 +1 mm    
  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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