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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 2 September 2001


Elizabeth Haydon's Destiny (Tor) places #20 among Amazon's fiction hardcover bestsellers this week, and a new Star Wars book by Jude Watson appears on the New York Times children's list.

Except for Terry Pratchett in the UK, and Harry Potter books on a few (mostly children's) lists, general bestseller lists remain very dry of SFFH, with books by King and Gaiman remaining on only one list each.

Look for Stephen King and Peter Straub's Black House (Random House), which has an on-sale date of September 15 in both the US and UK, to dominate lists by the end of the month.

Title NYT
9 Sep
LAT
2 Sep
SFC
2 Sep
USAT
30 Aug
WP
2 Sep
WSJ
31 Aug
London
Times
2 Sep
PW
3 Sep
BookSense
3 Sep
Amz
(5 Sep)
Amz UK
[5 Sep]
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                   xx  
Bradley/Paxson, Priestess of Avalon                   xx  
Bujold, The Curse of Chalion                   x  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl x             5 -3 xxx..    
Feist/Forstchen, Honoured Enemy             xx       xx
Gaiman, American Gods xxx xxx.. 4 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. x  
Haydon, Destiny                   20 ++  
King, Dreamcatcher 35 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx..
Pratchett, Thief of Time xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       6 =     xxx.. 5 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 22 =   8 -2 3 -- 7 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 +1 xxx.. x 23 +5   6 -1 4 -- 10 -3    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 5 +1 xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 =   xxx..     xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Turtledove, American Empire: Blood and Iron xx                 x  
Watson, Jedi Quest: Path to Truth 9 ++                    
Fiction paperbacks
Boulle, Planet of the Apes                   x  
Bradley, The Mists of Avalon xx     xxx..       xxx xxx.. x  
Harry Potter.. Poster Book 8 -2     xxx         xxx    
Keyes, The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth 27 +1     x       14 -6   17 ++  
King/Straub, The Talisman 14 +2     36 -4       13 +1   20 -8  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye             x       8 =
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 6 -2 6 -5 xxx.. xxx..     5 3 +1 xxx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban             4        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 -1 6 + xxx.. 11 +1     3 -- 5 -3    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 -1 3 +1 xxx.. 7 +2     2 -- 2 -1    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 7 -2 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 +1 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes 5 +3     xxx..       2 -1 xx    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   14 +2       7 +4 3 +1    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR   xx               4 = mm, 6 -3 tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring 25 -2     41 +         6 +2    
Nonfiction paperbacks
King, On Writing 31 -10                    
  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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