Science Fiction & Fantasy

For the eight-week period ending September 18, 2007, and based on sales at independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide. 1. The Children of Hurin J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, $26, 9780618894642 2.

For the eight-week period ending March 19, 2006, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at meg@booksense.com for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

For the eight-week period ending March 6, 2005, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Meg Smith at meg@booksense.com for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Based on four weeks of sales at over 400 independent bookstores across America. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Based on four weeks of sales from over 400 independent bookstores across America. Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine. Trade Paperback | Mass Market | Hardcover

Here are booksellers' picks for the top ten science fiction and fantasy titles for the fall. Pads will be in the August white box mailing and a downloadable PDF file will be available at www.bookweb.org/read/1474 next week. This Web page also includes links to all past Book Sense 76s.

The Science Fiction Achievements, more popularly known as the Hugo Awards, were recently announced. Among the winners were:

Based on the last eight weeks of sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America. Last week, we ran a list for teens and up, so here's one for the Middle Readers. Yes, Harry and Redwall appear on both lists, but there are a lot of great-selling, new and classic books for ages nine to 12. And kudos to Aladdin and their $2.95 paperback reissues. Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Based on the last eight weeks of sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America. Here is a fantastic cross-section of SF and fantasy fiction, new and classic, for teen readers up to us oldsters. (Dune is still my favorite book of all time.) Look for The Two Towers to make a run at #1 soon. A few nice surprises on this list. Next week: A younger readers' fantasy list. (No, that can't include a wish that summer would never end…)

Shelley Jackson's debut story collection, The Melancholy of Anatomy (an Anchor Books trade paper original), boldly turns the human body inside out, as the visceral becomes visible and takes on a life of its own through her fantastical tales.