There isn't a lot of movement this week on the hardcover fiction and nonfiction lists.

Particularly hard hit was best-selling hardcover fiction, with sales down some 16 percent from a year earlier.

All three novels were also ranked within the top ten hardcover fiction best sellers for their respective years by Publishers Weekly.

Anderson's also features a rental library of current hardcover fiction.

Sales of hardcover fiction were particularly poor last summer, falling an estimated 16 percent from a year earlier.

A table filled with best-selling hardcover fiction at prices ranging from 20 percent to 40 percent off.

(You can find it instead on the hardcover fiction extended list, available online, where it makes its debut at No. 18.)

For many years the book-publishing industry has regarded women as the most avid readers of hardcover fiction.

The novel would eventually climb to number 23 on the New York Times best sellers list for hardcover fiction.

Ondaatje's new novel is No. 18 on the hardcover fiction extended list.