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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
5 June 2000

The latest ''Left Behind'' novel debuts on four lists, three of them in first place. The mass-market paperback edition of Thomas Harris's Hannibal (Dell) debuts on three lists, two of them in first place. (It appeared last week on the Times of London list.)

A hardcover by Mercedes Lackey, and a paperback by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes, appear on one list each this week.

Title NYT
4 Jun
LAT
4 Jun
SFC
4 Jun
USAT
1 Jun
WP
4 Jun
WSJ
2 Jun
London
Times
4 Jun
PW
5 Jun
Amz
(31 May)
Book
Sense

5 Jun
Items compiled/total on list 15/30 15/15 15/15 30/100 10/10 10/10 10/10 15/15 15/25 15/15
Fiction hardcovers                    
Bear, Star Wars: Rogue Planet 11 -2     xxx x x x 8 = 16 -2  
Clark MH, Before I Say Goodbye 2 -1 5 -3 x 26 -12 1 = 7 -2   5 -3 7 +1 7 -2
Heaney trans., Beowulf 17 -5 10 + 3 +2 -- x xxx xxxx gen xxx 9 +3 6 -3
Lackey, Brightly Burning (33)                  
LeHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling       1 ++   1 ++   1 ++   3 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 4 +2   4 +4 21 = 10 -1 6 -2   1 series =   (1) ch =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 +4   5 +1 17 = x 4 -2   1 series =   (1) ch =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 10 +4   xxxx..   xxxx.. x   1 series   (1) ch =
Fiction paperbacks                    
Aldrin/Barnes, Encounter with Tiber   10 ++                
Harris, Hannibal       2 ++     6 -5 1 ++   1 ++
Hubbard, Battlefield Earth (20 =)     --       xx --  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 13 -3     7 -2 9 +     1 series   (1) ch =
Sachar, Holes       (36)       1 ch +1   4 ch =
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon                 8 +2 14 tpb =
Nonfiction paperbacks                    
Pratchett et al, The Science of Discworld             8 -5      
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW Amz Book
Sense
  This cell color means the title is not eligible for this list; e.g. the paper does not have paperback list, or apparently does not include YA books on its general fiction lists
  This cell color means the data is stale; e.g., a children's bestseller list only updated once a month

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

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, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and BookSense. 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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