The Book Sense Sci-Fi/Fantasy Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales from over 400 independent bookstores across America.

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TRADE PAPERBACK

1. Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, Perennial, $11.95, 0060929871
2. The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Company, $20, 0618343997
3. Crossroads of Twilight
Robert Jordan, Tor, $29.95, 0312864590
4. Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut, Delta, $12.95, 038533348X
5. The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, $20, 0618260250
6. A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess, Norton, $13, 0393312836
7. The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell, Fawcett, $13.95, 0449912558
8. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Ballantine, $18, 0345453743
9. Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson, Spectra, $13.95, 0553380958
10. The Gunslinger
Stephen King, Plume, $15.95, 0452284694
11. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection
Gardner Dozois (Ed.), St. Martin's, $19.95, 0312308604
12. 1984
George Orwell, Plume Books, $14, 0452284236
13. The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, $12, 0618260285
14. The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart, Eos, $14.95, 0060548258
15. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire, ReganBooks, $15, 0060987529

MASS MARKET

1. Star Wars --The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III -- Reunion
Shane Dix, Sean Williams, Del Rey, $6.99, 0345428722
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $6.95, 0451524934
3. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Ballantine, $6.99, 0345342968
4. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $6.99, 0812550706
5. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $7.99, 0345339681
6. The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $7.99, 0345339738
7. The Thousand Orcs: The Hunter's Blades Trilogy, Book I
R.A. Salvatore, Wizards of the Coast, $7.99, 0786929804
8. The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson, Spectra, $7.99, 0553580078
9. Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $7.99, 0812550757
10. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $7.99, 0345339703
11. The Princess Bride
William Goldman, Ballantine, $7.50, 0345348036
12. Shadow of the Hegemon
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $7.99, 0812565959
13. The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $7.99, 0345325818
14. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $7.99, 0441172717
15. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $7.99, 0345339711

HARDCOVER

1. Naked Empire
Terry Goodkind, Tor, $29.95, 0765305224
2. Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $26, 0385503857
3. Crossroads of Twilight
Robert Jordan, Tor, $29.95, 0312864590
4. Changing Planes
Ursula K. Le Guin, Harcourt, $22, 0151009716
5. Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde, Viking, $24.95, 0670031909
6. Ilium
Dan Simmons, Eos, $25.95, 0380978938
7. Prey
Michael Crichton, HarperCollins, $26.95, 0066214122
8. The War of the Flowers
Tad Williams, Daw Books, $24.95, 0756401356
9. Star Wars: Shatterpoint
Matthew Stover, Del Rey, $25.95, 0345455738
10. The Gunslinger
Stephen King, Viking, $25, 0670032549
11. Talon of the Silver Hawk
Raymond E. Feist, Eos, $24.95, 0380977087
12. Darwin's Children
Greg Bear, Del Rey, $24.95, 0345448359
13. The Princess Bride
William Goldman, Ballantine, $14.95, 0345418263
14. Kushiel's Avatar
Jacqueline Carey, Tor, $27.95, 0312872402
15. Morgawr, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
Terry Brooks, Del Rey, $27.95, 0345435729