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By Kent Larsen
Bestsellers: Sci-Fi List Shows Card's Influence
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Mormon News added this week the Booksense
bestsellers list to its compilation of Mormon titles national lists,
and found the influence that LDS author Orson Scott Card has among
science fiction readers. Booksense's most recent monthly Science
Fiction and Fantasy Specialty Bestsellers List of the top 25 titles
includes 5 of Card's titles, the highest at number three. The titles
on the Booksense list by Card are "Ender's Shadow" (#3), "Ender's
Game (#4), Speaker for the Dead (#11), Shadow of the Hegemon (#17)
and Xenocide (#23).
But in spite of Card's presence on the specialty list, his book
"Shadow of the Hegemon" dropped from the weekly bestseller lists,
leaving just Stephen Ambrose's "Nothing Like it in the World" and
Covey's perrenial favorite, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People."
Meanwhile, among LDS bookstores, President Gordon B. Hinckley's book
"Standing for Something" remained at the top, while other titles
climbed up the list. The largest jump was Chad Hawkins' "The First
100 Temples" which jumped from #13 to #2.
The current titles on US National bestseller lists are:
Nothing Like it in the World, by Stephen Ambrose
A history of the building of the transcontinental railroad in the US.
Ambrose, a highly regarded historian, details the involvement of
Mormons in building crucial portions of the road, including the
driving of the "golden spike" in the heart of Mormon territory.
Currently on the following bestseller lists:
This
Week | Last
Week | List |
| 28 | 28 | Barnes &Noble (Apr 26) Top 100 |
| 20 | 24 | New York Times (Apr 29) Non-Fiction Hardcover |
| | | New York Times [Independents - 19] |
See:
More about Stephen E. Ambrose's "Nothing Like It in the World:
The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" at Amazon.com
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
This ten-year-old personal management classic is still selling strongly.
Currently on the following bestseller lists:
This
Week | Last
Week | List |
| 100 | - | Amazon.com (Apr 26) Top 100 |
| 16 | 15 | Amazon.com (Apr 26) Non-Fiction Paperback |
| 63 | 66 | Barnes &Noble (Apr 26) Top 100 |
| 105 | 125 | USA Today (Apr 26) |
| 5 | 5 | Wall Street Journal (Apr 20) Business |
See:
More about Stephen R. Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People" at Amazon.com
Bestsellers in LDS Bookstores:
LDS Books rankings reflect sales rankings at approximately 50 LDS
bookstores, generally in the Western United States. Mormon News is
actively seeking to expand both the quality of these rankings and the
number of stores participating. Bookstores and other vendors of LDS
books are urged to contact Mormon News at
editor@mormonstoday.com
to participate.
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