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Venger
Learned Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 29 May 2013 : 05:26:44
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Out of curiosity, which Forgotten Realms novels have made the New York Times bestseller list? I think every Drizzt novel has done so. Have any others made it? Thanks.
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 29 May 2013 : 15:40:15
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Anything with Bob's name on it (such as the War of the Spider Queen series), and I think maybe the Twilight War series was there, but generally speaking, FR fiction is not the NYT's bag. It's somewhat rare for media-related properties to end up there.
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Emma Drake
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 29 May 2013 : 16:43:59
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| I know Waterdeep (Richard Awlinson/Troy Denning) made the list. |
"I am always here, all about you. You are never truly alone. I flow wherever life flows, wherever winds blow and water runs and the sun and moon chase each other, for there is magic in all things."
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 29 May 2013 : 18:16:59
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<Here> are the lists of past NY Times Best Sellers. You can go back and pull up pdf's for every week that they have on record. Unfortunately, it's not logged and searchable there, so you have to open each week's pdf up and search manually. Ugh.
I think Bob has said that paperback "The Icewind Dale Trilogy" did alright, but I don't know if it was necessarily a best seller or anything. Maybe Homeland changed that? Because something had to serve as the impetus to get The Legacy released as his first hardcover. I believe The Legacy was his first official Best Seller. But I'm not sure, as the lists at that site may only cite hardcovers, and not paperbacks. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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Blueblade
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 29 May 2013 : 21:39:15
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In the 1980s and earlier, the NYT deliberately excluded all media-related fiction and all "genre" romances, because otherwise its slots would have been constantly filled with Star Wars (and Trek?), movie novelizations, Harlequins, and (in the latter half of the 1980s) gaming fiction.
Only in more recent times did the list reflect paperback originals, too. In terms of sales, the first "wave" of both Dragonlance (i.e. the original Weis & Hickman) and Realms (Bob's early novels, Azure Bonds, Ed's Spellfire, etc.) would have placed high on the lists, had they been considered.
(This information comes from a very interesting panel at BookExpoAmerica by a former NYT staffer, and the answers he gave to my questions re. the D&D novels.)
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Blueblade
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USA
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Posted - 29 May 2013 : 21:40:02
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In the 1980s and earlier, the NYT deliberately excluded all media-related fiction and all "genre" romances, because otherwise its slots would have been constantly filled with Star Wars (and Trek?), movie novelizations, Harlequins, and (in the latter half of the 1980s) gaming fiction.
Only in more recent times did the list reflect paperback originals, too. In terms of sales, the first "wave" of both Dragonlance (i.e. the original Weis & Hickman) and Realms (Bob's early novels, Azure Bonds, Ed's Spellfire, etc.) would have placed high on the lists, had they been considered.
(This information comes from a very interesting panel at BookExpoAmerica by a former NYT staffer, and the answers he gave to my questions re. the D&D novels.)
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Emma Drake
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 03 Jun 2013 : 20:21:21
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Originally posted by BEAST
<Here> are the lists of past NY Times Best Sellers. You can go back and pull up pdf's for every week that they have on record. Unfortunately, it's not logged and searchable there, so you have to open each week's pdf up and search manually. Ugh.
I went looking for a list as well and found that this link was the only one that seemed to collect all lists in one place, but even it has a ponderous format. I was quite surprised that there was no readily available "all new york times best sellers" list anywhere! |
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Which novels have made NYT bestseller list?
