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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 26 August 2001


The only noteworthy rankings this week are two ongoing success stories: Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time, which has moved up one to #6 on both UK lists, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, two of which continue to rank in the top 10 on the Wall Street Journal list week after week, a year and two years after publication.

The Raymond E. Feist and William Forstchen novel, Honoured Enemy (Voyager), that debuted on both UK lists last week, lasted only one week.

Amazon's lists are stale this week.

Title NYT
2 Sep
LAT
26 Aug
SFC
26 Aug
USAT
23 Aug
WP
26 Aug
WSJ
24 Aug
London
Times
26 Aug
PW
27 Aug
BookSense
27 Aug
Amz
(22 Aug)
stale
Amz UK
[25 Aug]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Bradley, The Mists of Avalon                   x  
Bradley/Paxson, Priestess of Avalon                   x  
Bujold, The Curse of Chalion                   22 ++  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 10 =             5 -3 xxx..    
Feist/Forstchen, Honoured Enemy             x       x
Gaiman, American Gods xx xxx.. 10 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 19 -11  
King, Dreamcatcher 27 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..
Pratchett, Thief of Time xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       6 +1     xxx.. 6 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 22 +8   6 -1 3 -- 6 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 2 = xxx.. 9 + 28 +3   5 -1 4 -- 7 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 6 = xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 =   xxx..     xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Turtledove, American Empire: Blood and Iron x                 23 ++  
Weber/Ringo, March to the Sea xx                    
Fiction paperbacks
Boulle, Planet of the Apes                   17 ++  
Bradley, The Mists of Avalon x     xxx       xx xxx.. 15 -13  
Harry Potter.. Poster Book 6 +3     xx         xx    
Keyes, The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth 28 -17     36 -20       8 -1      
King/Straub, The Talisman 16 +1     32 -9       14 ++   12 ++  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye             8 -1       8 ++
Koontz, Whispers xxx     xxx..       xxx..      
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 4 +1 6 -5 xxx.. xxx..     5 3 +1 xx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban             4        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = 6 + xxx.. 12 =     3 -- 2 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 3 +1 xxx.. 9 +1     2 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 5 +1 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 +1 xxx    
Sachar, Holes 8 =     xxx..       2 -1 x    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   16 +5       11 +3 4 =    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   xx               4 +1 mm, 3 +3 tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring 23 -2               8 =    
Watson, Jedi Apprentice: The Ties that Bind xxx                    
Nonfiction paperbacks
King, On Writing 21 +4                    
  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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