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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 31 December 2000


At year's end Terry Pratchett's The Truth holds the #1 position on both UK lists in the table below (after slipping to #2 last week on the Times of London list). And Harry Potter is still riding high.

Holiday sales have boosted rankings of several paperbacks, including two "Ender" books by Orson Scott Card, and Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which is up to #14 on Amazon's paperback list.

Washington Post and BookSense have taken this week off; the columns in the table below show last week's ranks.
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
7 Jan
LAT
31 Dec
SFC
31 Dec
USAT
28 Dec
WP
24 Dec
WSJ
29 Dec
London
Times
31 Dec
PW
1 Jan
BookSense
25 Dec
Amz
(27 Dec)
Amz UK
[31 Dec]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Baum, Annotated Wizard of Oz 7 + ch hc                    
Carr, Killing Time 26 -1 xxx xxx   xx     xx xx x  
Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay     13 +                
Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus 21 +1                    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune House Harkonnen 30 +2   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xx  
Jacques, Lord Brocktree [UK: Sep] 6 = ch hc 5 ++ ch           3 -1 ch fic xxx.. ch xxx..  
Jordan, Winter's Heart [US, UK: Nov] 13 -1 xx xx x 9 = xxx xxx 10 -2 11 -5 16 -2  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Indwelling 28 +2 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark [US Nov] 2 -1 15 +   36 -10 8 -4 8 =   4 -2 xx 11 -3  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [US: Oct] x   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xx  
Pratchett, The Truth [UK: 9 Nov; US 7 Nov] xxx..           1 +1       1 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [US: Oct; UK: Nov] 5 = ch hc   9 +6 xxx..   xxx..   1 ++ ch fic 10 -1 ch    
Rice, Merrick [US: Oct; UK: Oct] 11 +3 xx xxx.. 46 +1 xx xxx..   11 +2 x 13 -2  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = ch hc x ch 8 +1 8 -1   2 = 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 5 -1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 1 = ch hc x ch 5 +5 6 =   1 = 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 6 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc 4 -3 ch xx xxx..   6 = 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   11 +2     3 = 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Spiegelman & Mouly, Little Lit     14 -7                
Tyers, Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Balance Point xx     xxx..       xxx..      
Yolen/Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? xxx.. ch-pic xxx ch           9 -6 ch-pic      
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Ender's Game               12 +   15 +  
Card, Ender's Shadow 21 +2               xx 15 -1  
Crichton, Timeline 5 -1 3 +2   15 = 1 =   xx 4 -1 1 = 8 -1  
Harris, Hannibal [UK]             x        
Herbert, Dune                   11 -3  
Herbert, Dune Messiah                   x  
Koontz, False Memory 3 = 7 ++   11 +1 3 ++     2 =   18 ++  
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn [tpb]   xx             10 = tpb    
Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant [UK]             4 +       4 -1
Pullman, The Subtle Knife                   10 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 2 = ch pb   7 + 2 =       1 = ch series 2 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = ch pb 8 -6 ch 4 +5 1 =       1 = ch series 1 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 7 -1 ch pb     xxx..       2 -1 ch fic xxx.. ch    
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon                   14 +11  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                   5 +1  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 11 = xx xxx.. 48 +4 6 = xxx..   15 + xxx.. 18 -2  
  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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