Fantasy Book News » Charlaine Harris http://www.fantasybooknews.com Fantasy Book News Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:17:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, July 24, 2010 http://www.fantasybooknews.com/2010/amazon%e2%80%99s-top-5-fantasy-bestsellers-july-24-2010/ http://www.fantasybooknews.com/2010/amazon%e2%80%99s-top-5-fantasy-bestsellers-july-24-2010/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:18:07 +0000 Jeff http://www.fantasybooknews.com/?p=1076 Naomi Novik drops off the top 5 this week, replaced by a second entry from Karen Marie Moning in the top 5. This marks Moning’s first time ever with two books in the top 5 fantasy bestseller list.

  1. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  2. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  3. Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
  4. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
  5. Faefever by Karen Marie Moning

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  1. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  2. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  3. Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
  4. Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
  5. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

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  1. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  2. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  3. His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
  4. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
  5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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  1. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  2. His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
  3. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  4. Frost Moon by Anthony Francis
  5. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

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  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  3. Containment by Christian Cantrell
  4. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
  5. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

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  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  3. Containment by Christian Cantrell
  4. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
  5. Changes by Jim Butcher

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  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  3. Containment by Christian Cantrell
  4. Changes by Jim Butcher
  5. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

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Last on our list this week is an interview at The Dragon Page with Charlaine Harris, and I have to say I was disappointed. Not in the interview, the interview is in fact great, but I was really hoping to find a mastermind behind the wild success of Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels. Rather than sounding like the Sookie novels were planned, well organized and well thought out prior to being written, Harris comes off as aloof, making it sound like all the novels in the series were just written on a whim, and that the success really has nothing to do with any semblance of a structured plan. To me, this lends even more credibility to the notion that the whole vampire romance/urban fantasy genre is a fluke, a fad that will pass as quickly as pogo balls and hot pink Hammer pants. The guys at The Dragon Page seem to hint that they feel the same way, but they dance around it a bit, as is only natural when you’re interviewing one of the genre’s heavyweights. They even go so far as to mention an impending collapse, stating that Harris, Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton would be the only authors in the genre able to survive such an implosion. I’ve been covering the Amazon top 5 fantasy bestsellers for over a year now, and I won’t say I’d welcome such an implosion, but it would freshen up the list a bit. Just sayin’.

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  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton
  3. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  4. Containment by Christian Cantrell
  5. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward

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