Last week I wrote, and tried to post, a long entry about the genre books on the April 22nd New York Times Book Review bestseller lists. But, looking through my archives, I think now that Movable Type ate it, as it's eating so much lately. (And let me say again that I loathe Movable Type, which causes me nothing but pain.)

Well, I'll try again. In the publishing biz, we often see bestseller lists, and consequently I hold in my hands right now the April 29th New York Times lists.

Last week I congratulated Jim Butcher, whose new "Dresden Files" novel White Night was #5 on the hardcover list, which was his first-ever appearance on the Times list. This week, White Night slips only slightly, to #7, but the Times gets the title wrong, adding a "K" to the second word. (Obligatory plug: you can get White Night as one-half of the SFBC's fourth "Dresden Files" omnibus, Wizard Under Fire.)

White Night is the only SFF book on the main hardcover list, but, on the expanded list, we find Boomsday by Christopher Buckley (#18), For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison (#22), Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (#26), and Into a Dark Realm by Raymond E. Feist (#28).

On the paperback list, Oprah pick and Pulitzer Prize winner The Road by Cormac McCarthy is at #2, and, on the expanded list, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is at #16 and Karen Chance's Claimed by Shadow at #31.

On the various Children's lists, there's New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (#1), City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (#7), and Specials by Scott Westerfeld (#8) on the "chapter books" list. The paperback children's list has a lot of genre books: Eldest by Christopher Paolini is #1, and also on the list are Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (32), Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (#6), Eragon by Paolini (#7), The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (#9), and no less than three novelizations of movies with fantasy elements. Lastly, the series children's list has "Harry Potter" in #1, "Magic Tree House" at #3, "Septimus Heap" #4, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" #9, and "Warriors: The New Prophecy" closing it up at #10.

I'm pretty sure there were more last week, and I also think I had many brilliant and witty comments, but all that was as chaff beneath the heel of Movable Type.