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The table compiles selected SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists.
See #Key below.

from LOCUS Magazine

Bestseller lists compiled from sales at specialty stores:

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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
14 July 2002


Neil Gaiman's Coraline (HarperCollins) debuts at #10 on New York Times's children's chapter book list this week. BookSense notes that it's a title "on the rise," ranking #22 on its children's fiction list.

The major news this week is the debut of the latest "Left Behind" novel, LeHaye & Jenkins's The Remnant, placing #1 on four lists (NYT, USAT, PW, and WSJ); however, while mentioning such occurrences, this page does not necessarily chart every book that might have some SFnal or fantastic element construable. The "Left Behind" books are one example; Tom Clancy near-future techno-thrillers are another; so is Kay Hooper's psychic mystery Whisper of Evil (Bantam; it's filled "with unwieldy discussions of psychic powers, energy fields and electric brain impulses" according to PW's review), currently ranking respectably on the NYT, USAT, and PW lists . The same is true for occasional SF "classics", perhaps bought by students for summer reading, that pop up on Amazon's paperback bestsellers list; George Orwell's 1984, for example, ranks this week at #25.

Title NYT
7.21
LAT
7.14
SFC
7.14
USAT
7.11
WP
7.14
WSJ
7.12
Bookseller [UK] (7.15) PW
7.15
Book
Sense

7.15
Amz
(7.14)
Amz UK
(7.14)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30x5 15x4 10x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt xxx   x   xxx..   10 -5   xxx.. xx 4 =
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 9 = 7 + x 44 -18 9 + 12 -2 3 -1 11 +1 10 -2 10 +2 2 =
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 4 +2           5 -3 2 ++ 5 -2    
Gaiman, Coraline 10 ++                    
King, Everything's Eventual 29 +1 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx   xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets x                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone x                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 40 -3   xxx..   -- 8 +3    
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones 35 -9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Vanished Moon 18 -3     xx       16 -6  
Paperbacks
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451   xx               21 -6  
Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter             10 = nf        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 4 +1           9 -3 4 + 2 =    
Gaiman, American Gods xxx.. x   xxx..       xxx.. xxx..    
King, Dreamcatcher             5 -3       2 -1
Koontz, The Door to December x     xx       xx      
Martin, A Storm of Swords                   xx  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass             8 -1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]             6 -1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife             10 -1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 21 -7     3 =   3 +4    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Fire             1 =        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = xxx.. xxx.. 19 -3     2 +2   4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = xxx.. xxx.. x     x   12 +3    
Rowling, Harry Potter: Celebratory Edition             xxx        
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)       xxx..           20 +3  
Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters x (nf)                    
Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones 8 -1     xxx         xx    
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Bookseller PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists Italics indicates stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before

Key:
The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:
   =    same as last week
   + or - with number:    difference since last week
   +    back on list
   ++    new on list
   x    no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.  



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