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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 29 April 2001


Stephen King's Dreamcatcher remains in the top 10 of all lists this week, except Amazon's.

Booksense has a special SF/fantasy bestseller list posted this week, based on a month of sales in independent bookstores across the US. The list is dominated by backlist titles: the first five spots are books by Tolkien and Card. The highest ranking new hardcover is by McCaffrey; new paperback, Greg Keyes.

Though not officially published in May 1, Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time is already at the top of Amazon UK’s Hot 100 list.

PW's website does not yet have April 30 hardcover lists posted.

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
6 May
LAT
29 Apr
SFC
29 Apr
USAT
28 Apr
WP
29 Apr
WSJ
27 Apr
London
Times
29 Apr
PW
30 Apr
BookSense
30 Apr
Amz
(25 Apr)
Amz UK
[29 Apr]
Items compiled/total on list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Farland, Wizardborn                   x  
Feist, Krondor Tear of the Gods xx         xxx..       xx  
Gemmell, Ravenheart             xx       9 =
Jacques, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman 6 -1 ch hc         xxx   4 ++ ch fic 9 -2    
King, Dreamcatcher 4 -2 6 +5 9 +2 9 -1 4 -2 3 = 6 -4 2 -1 9 -5   3 -1
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xx  
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark 17 +2 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 13 +6  
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern 12 -2   xx x   12 -1   10 -3 xx    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass 9 + ch hc   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   8 -5 ch fic xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = ch hc xxx ch 10 -1 28 -2   8 -3 3 ch hc 1 = ch series 6 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire US UK 2 = ch hc xxx ch 4 +1 31 -1   10 -2 1 = ch hc 1 = ch series 8 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 = ch hc xx ch xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 4 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = ch hc   xxx..     xxx.. 2 ch hc 1 = ch series xxx.. ch    
Vornholt, STTNG: Genesis Wave xx                    
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Lost Star 16 -4         14 -5   14 ++      
Williams, Otherland: Sea of Silver Light 23 -6                    
Fiction paperbacks
Jacques, The Legend of Luke xxx.. ch pb             6 -1 ch fic      
Keyes (Greg), SW New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory 1: Conquest 22 -7     47 -25       13 -5      
Pullman, The Golden Compass               10 -6 ch fic      
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               x ch fic   xxx..  
Rice, Vittorio the Vampire xxx     xxx..       xx      
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 1 = ch pb 1 +2 ch xxx 30 -21       1 ++ ch fic 1 = ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets [US pb 15 Aug] 3 +1 ch pb 4 -2 ch xxx.. 16 -3       1 = ch series 4 +1 ch    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 -1 ch pb 3 +1 ch xxx.. 12 -1       1 = ch series 5 -1 ch    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 2 = ch pb 2 +4 ch xxx 33 -23       2 ++ ch fic 2 = ch    
Sachar, Holes 5 +3 ch pb     xxx..       3 -1 ch fic xx ch    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   x ch               19 -6  
Nonfiction
King, On Writing 34 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
  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)

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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