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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 22 October 2000


Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass, the third volume of the ''His Dark Materials'' sequence, debuts on four more lists this week, and moves up on the NYT list it debuted on last week. The book won't be published in the UK until early November.

The paperback of Pullman's first volume, The Golden Compass, has appeared on Amazon's list this week. Another paperback reprint to appear this week is Anne Rice's The Vampire Armand, on two lists; her new book Merrick hasn't yet appeared on the fiction hardcover lists.

New on prepublication lists: Caleb Carr's Killing Time; Anne McCaffrey's The Skies of Pern.
This cell color indicates forthcoming books: Amazon US/UK not-yet-published (NYP) rankings 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
29 Oct
LAT
22 Oct
SFC
22 Oct
USAT
18 Oct
WP
22 Oct
WSJ
20 Oct
London
Times
22 Oct
PW
23 Oct
BookSense
23 Oct
Amz
(18 Oct)
Amz UK
[21 Oct]
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
Banks, Look to Windward [UK: Aug]             xx        
Boyle, A Friend of the Earth         xx       xxx xxx..  
Brooks, Ilse Witch 22 -6         xxx..   x xxx x  
Carr, Caleb, Killing Time                   23 ++ NYP  
Chabon, The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay x 10 -6 8 -3   7 ++     xx x x  
Feist, Krondor: Tear of the Gods [US: Dec; UK: Sep]                     5 +19 NYP
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen [US, UK: Aug] 25 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx.. 23 -4  
Hamilton, Laurell, A Kiss of Shadows [US: Oct] 21 -7                 18 ++  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen [US: Oct 3] 8 +3   11 -2 x   x   8 =   5 ++  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 6 -1 chhc 5 ++ ch           2 ++ ch fic x ch xx  
Jones/Sutton, Dark Terrors 5 [UK: 19 Oct]                     x NYP
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov]                   2 +2 NYP 3 -1 NYP
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 18 -1 x   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   25 -5  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov]                   1 = NYP  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct]                   5 +1 NYP  
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern [UK: Feb]                     13 ++ NYP
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov]                     2 -1 NYP
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 3 +5 ch hc   2 ++ 10 ++   5 ++     2 ++ ch   1 +1 NYP
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct]                     4 +11 NYP
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch hc 4 +5 ch 5 +1 8 +8   3 +2   1 = ch series 5 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = ch hc 3 -2 ch 4 -2 4 +1   1 +1 1 = ch 1 = ch series 4 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 1 +6 ch xx xxx..   xxx..   1 = ch series 9 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 5 -2 ch hc   xx     8 +   1 = ch series x ch    
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? xx ch-pic xx ch           3 -1 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Crichton, Timeline [UK]             3 +2        
King, Hearts in Atlantis x     x xxx..   xxx.. xx   xxx.. 3 =
Luceno, Star Wars...Jedi Eclipse 11 -1     17 -4       5 -1   3 ++ x NYP
Pullman, The Golden Compass                   5 ++  
Rice, Vampire Armand 22 ++     44 ++              
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban [UK]             4 -1 ch        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 2 -1 ch pb   2 -1 1 +1     3 +1 ch 1 = ch series 1 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 +1 ch pb 2 +3 ch 3 = 3 +1     2 = ch 1 = ch series 3 -1 ch    
Sachar, Holes 3 = ch pb     xxx..       1 = ch fic 8 -1 ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   15 -2  
Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth                   x NYP  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 3 -1 1 ++ 3 -1 11 -4         4 = 5  
Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, The Wizard Behind Harry Potter x ch pb             3 -1 ch nf xxx.. ch    
  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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