What's Hot in Historical Fiction

Last updated: June 4, 2008

Hottest 30 in the Top Tier: Largest increase in sales among Ranks between 1 and 50,000 last week

Title	Author	Rank Increase	This Week's Rank	Last Week's Rank
1. The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	96.78%	756	23497
2. The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)	Cormac Mccarthy	94.19%	2069	35622
3. Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Avi	85.75%	4004	28097
4. The Killer Angels	Michael Shaara	80.26%	643	3258
5. The March: A Novel	E.L. Doctorow	78.69%	5449	25568
6. The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II HNR Editor's Choice	Jeff Shaara	77.84%	2982	13456
7. Drowning Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)	Christina Schwarz	77.75%	7769	34913
8. Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution	Jeff Shaara	75.56%	8270	33834
9. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo	Irving Stone	74.77%	6277	24876
10. Birds Without Wings	Louis De Bernieres	74.16%	9421	36462
11. Tides of War	Steven Pressfield	73.38%	12785	48028
12. The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 6)	Jack Whyte	73.12%	7749	28829
13. Highlander Unchained: A Novel	Monica Mccarty	72.81%	12907	47477
14. The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel	Alan Furst	71.90%	4086	14543
15. The Fort at River's Bend (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 5)	Jack Whyte	69.78%	15002	49650
16. Green Darkness	Anya Seton	69.28%	7414	24138
17. Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos	Robert Lawson	67.87%	6291	19578
18. The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)	Michael Shaara	67.03%	10140	30751
19. Against the Day	Thomas Pynchon	64.75%	12998	36877
20. Berlin Noir (Crime, Penguin)	Philip Kerr	63.01%	12476	33732
21. Pompeii: A Novel	Robert Harris	62.67%	6651	17817
22. Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey	Alison Weir	62.30%	2189	5807
23. A Land Remembered	Patrick Smith	62.19%	5328	14092
24. 1945: A Novel	Robert Conroy	62.17%	10132	26782
25. Black Cross	Greg Iles	61.31%	13140	33965
26. Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era	Eiji Yoshikawa	59.10%	15344	37514
27. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)	Barbara Kingsolver	58.65%	588	1422
28. Ragtime: A Novel	E.L. Doctorow	57.27%	10544	24678
29. The Valley of Horses	Jean M. Auel	56.77%	19408	44898
30. The Priest: Aaron (Sons of Encouragement Series #1)	Francine Rivers	56.28%	16789	38401

Hottest 30 in the Mid-Tier: Largest increase in sales among Rank between 50,000 and 100,000 last week

Title	Author	Rank Increase	This Week's Rank	Last Week's Rank
1. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.)	Michael Chabon	88.43%	9512	82189
2. Highlander Untamed: A Novel	Monica McCarty	87.57%	12084	97203
3. The Ionian Mission (Aubrey Maturin Series)	Patrick O'Brian	85.56%	14372	99552
4. The Clan of the Cave Bear	Jean M. Auel	84.93%	11268	74751
5. The King Must Die: A Novel	Mary Renault	84.66%	14000	91268
6. Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier	81.77%	13857	76015
7. These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman	Pamela Aidan	80.95%	11063	58066
8. Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory (Gingrich and Forstchen's Civil War Trilogy)	Newt Gingrich	80.91%	12906	67596
9. Burning Bright	Tracy Chevalier	78.70%	13706	64355
10. A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials	Ann Rinaldi	78.48%	12627	58677
11. The Widow's War: A Novel	Sally Gunning	78.16%	20005	91605
12. The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great	Steven Pressfield	77.17%	18610	81521
13. And Only to Deceive	Tasha Alexander	76.75%	14260	61332
14. The Wallace: The Compelling 13th Century Story of William Wallace (Coronet Books)	Nigel Tranter	76.68%	17758	76143
15. The Widow of the South	Robert Hicks	73.51%	13463	50828
16. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (Hornblower Saga)	C.S. Forester	72.27%	22308	80442
17. The Eagle's Prophecy	Simon Scarrow	70.63%	25366	86381
18. The Vanishing Point	Mary Sharratt	70.63%	22806	77663
19. Queen of This Realm: The Tudor Queens	Jean Plaidy	70.26%	25668	86316
20. Uther (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 7)	Jack Whyte	68.24%	16011	50405
21. An Inconvenient Wife	Megan Chance	67.60%	28383	87595
22. Forever Amber	Kathleen Winsor	66.97%	18044	54637
23. The Janissary Tree: A Novel	Jason Goodwin	66.80%	31958	96254
24. The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta	Nicholas Nicastro	65.81%	32655	95499
25. A Mist of Prophecies: A Novel of Ancient Rome	Steven Saylor	64.98%	33303	95095
26. The Egyptian: A Novel	Mika Waltari	64.70%	34514	97786
27. Love and War (North and South Trilogy)	John Jakes	63.66%	27125	74641
28. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War	Howard Bahr	61.74%	34511	90202
29. Lady Beware: A Novel of the Company of Rogues (Signet Historical Romance)	Jo Beverley	58.34%	34113	81886
30. Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan	Eiji Yoshikawa	54.06%	29546	64316

Largest Decline in Sale: Largest decrease in sales among last week's top 100,000

Title	Author	Rank Increase	This Week's Rank	Last Week's Rank
1. Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction)	Barry Unsworth	-99.81%	12557	24
2. The Sparks Fly Upward HNR Editor's Choice	Diana Norman	-96.92%	459209	14134
3. Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam	Maggie Anton	-96.51%	161804	5653
4. These is My Words	Nancy Turner	-96.26%	95184	3559
5. Losing Nelson	Barry Unsworth	-95.43%	376819	17209
6. The Mandrake Broom	Jess Wells	-95.24%	1577109	75148
7. The Eagle and the Raven	Pauline Gedge	-95.23%	99236	4734
8. Taking Liberties	Diana Norman	-94.47%	228627	12640
9. The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club)	Ken Follett	-93.84%	1282	79
10. Venetia	Georgette Heyer	-93.73%	159586	10011
11. A Wanted Man (Stone Creek, Book 2)	Linda Lael Miller	-91.99%	322742	25846
12. Helen of Troy	Margaret George	-91.79%	306229	25142
13. Hawaii: A Novel	James A. Michener	-90.15%	73898	7278
14. The Queen of Bedlam	Robert McCammon	-89.37%	254461	27045
15. Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)	Alan Paton	-89.28%	36262	3886
16. American Gangster	Max Allan Collins	-89.22%	154709	16679
17. A Christmas Secret: A Novel	Anne Perry	-88.91%	187293	20767
18. An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley	Ann Rinaldi	-88.69%	485783	54952
19. Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel	Edmund White	-88.62%	208660	23741
20. Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved (Rashi's Daughters)	Maggie Anton	-88.58%	57952	6619
21. Westward the Tide	Louis L'Amour	-88.47%	223805	25803
22. The Nutmeg of Consolation	Patrick O'Brian	-87.62%	99364	12300
23. Vagabond (The Grail Quest #2)	Bernard Cornwell	-87.44%	226932	28501
24. The Archer's Tale (The Grail Quest, Book 1)	Bernard Cornwell	-87.20%	128442	16444
25. The Red Tent	Anita Diamant	-86.74%	11424	1515
26. Ireland : A Novel	Frank Delaney	-86.53%	198032	26669
27. Dead Man's Walk : A Novel	Larry McMurtry	-86.28%	46302	6354
28. And Less Than Kind (Scepter'd Isle)	Roberta Gellis and Mercedes Lackey	-85.58%	37724	5439
29. Lydia Bennet's Story: A sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice	Jane Odiwe	-84.90%	433775	65495
30. The Ruby in Her Navel: A Novel HNR Editor's Choice	Barry Unsworth	-84.67%	182701	28006