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SFFH on Bestseller Lists: 18 November 2001


Two paperback reprints debut on lists this week, David and Leigh Eddings's The Redemption of Althalus (Del Rey), and Terry Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen (Tor).

The Times of London has included, unusually, the four "Harry Potter" paperbacks on its Paperbacks General list this week, ranked 6 through 9. The figures indicate the first book in the series has sold 2,098,866 copies to date.

Terry Pratchett remains #1 on both UK hardcover lists, and #2 on both UK paperback lists.

By the way, this chart will not track the latest "Left Behind" novel, Desecration, which debuted last week at #1 on several lists.

Title NYT
25 Nov
LAT
18 Nov
SFC
11 Nov stale
USAT
15 Nov
WP
18 Nov
WSJ
16 Nov
London
Times
18 Nov
PW
19 Nov
BookSense
19 Nov
Amz
(18 Nov)
Amz UK
[18 Nov]
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Barker, Coldheart Canyon xxx.. xx                  
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax 27 -3 xxx   xxx..   xxx xxx.. xx   22 -2 xxx..
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star 17 -6 12 ++   47 -22   13 -7   12 -3      
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 25 -5 x   xxx.. xxx xx   xx   14 +1  
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 24 -3 x x xxx.. xx xx   xx xxx.. 6 +3  
James Herbert, Once             10 -2       8 =
Jacques, Taggerung 8 -2   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   2 ++ xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 16 -6 9 -1 xxx.. 50 -7 xxx.. x x x xx 7 -2 7 +2
Koontz, The Paper Doorway   xx                  
Lackey, Take a Thief xx                 xx  
Pratchett, The Last Hero             1 =       1 =
Rice, Blood and Gold 13 -6 3 -1 x 31 -16 8 = 11 -6   9 -4 xx 3 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 5 -1   xxx.. xxx..   xxx 3 -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 =   xxx 12 +9   7 +4 4 -- 6 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 -1   xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 =   xxx..     xxx.. x -- 10 +    
Salvatore, Sea of Swords 18 -4     x   x   13 -3      
Tolkien, LOTR boxed set                   xxx  
Fiction paperbacks
Eddings & Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus 33 ++             15 ++      
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen       40 ++       11 ++ 8 ++    
Jacques, Lord Brocktree               6 ++      
King, Hearts in Atlantis 32 -17 xxx..   xx       x xx xxx  
King/Straub, The Talisman xx     xxx..       xxx..   x  
Pratchett, The Truth             2 =       2 ++
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xx               x    
Rice, Merrick x     xxx       xx      
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... xxx   xxx.. xxx..     x 3 = xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 =   xxx.. 4 -1     9   3 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             8        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 = 6 + xxx.. 6 -1     7 -- 2 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 3 +1 xxx.. 1 +1     6 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xx 1 +1 xxx.. xxx..       4 = xxx..    
Sachar, Holes 9 -3     xxx..       5 -3 xxx    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +   14 +6       8 +2 3 +7    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       46 +         16 ++ tpb 4 = mm, 6 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. xxx..   9 +18 (F)       6 + mm, xxx.. tpb 2 +2 (F)    
  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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