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7.21 Bestsellers

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7.14
7.07
6.30
6.23
6.16
6.09
6.02
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5.05
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4.07
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3.03
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2.03
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1.06.02
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1.07.01
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1.04.00

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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
21 July 2002


Neil Gaiman's Coraline (HarperCollins) debuts at #6 on San Francisco Chronicle's hardcover fiction list (not a children's list), no doubt an effect of Gaiman's book launch reading of the book on July 2 in Berkeley. The book rises to #8 on New York Times's children's chapter book list, and debuts on the July PW children's list at #9.

A Philip K. Dick movie tie-in hardcover collection called Minority Report ranks #9 this week on Amazon UK's hardcover fiction list.

The new shaded column in the table, to the right of the titles, shows the debut date the title appeared on any list compiled here, and the cumulative number of weeks it has ranked on any of these lists. An 'x' after the number of weeks indicates the title doesn't rank on any of this week's lists, but hasn't yet been dropped from the chart. Note that the dates and counts are relative to this weekly page, and may not correspond to the dating of particular besteller lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
7.28
LAT
7.21
SFC
7.21
USAT
7.18
WP
7.21
WSJ
7.19
Book
seller
[UK] (7.21)
PW
7.22
(ch 7.01)
Book
Sense

7.22
Amz
(7.21)
Amz UK
(7.21)
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 5.19 / 10 xxx..   xx   xxx..   x   xxx.. xxx 7 -3
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 5.12 / 11 9 = x xx 49 -5 x 12 = 4 -1 12 -1 10 = 10 = 3 -1
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 11 5 -1           5 = 3 -1 2 +3    
Dick, Minority Report 7.21 / 1                     9 ++
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 2 8 +2   6 ++         9 ++      
King, Everything's Eventual 3.31 / 16x x xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   xx                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   xx                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 106 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 38 +2   xxx..   -- 9 -1    
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones 4.28 / 12x x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Vanished Moon 6.30 / 4 24 -6     xxx   xx    xx    16 =  
Paperbacks
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451     xxx               21 =  
Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter               x nf        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 10 5 -1           9 = 1 +3 1 +1    
Gaiman, American Gods 5.12 / 7x xxx.. xx   xxx..       xxx.. xxx..    
King, Dreamcatcher 6.23 / 5             8 -3       5 -3
Koontz, The Door to December 6.09 / 5x xx     xxx       xxx      
Martin, A Storm of Swords 6.16 / 2x                   xxx  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               8 =   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]               7 -1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               10 =        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 6.17.01 / 58 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 19 +2     2 +1   4 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Fire               1 =        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   2 = xxx.. xxx.. 23 -4     3 -1   6 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   3 = xxx.. xxx.. xx     xx   12 =    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)         xxx..           20 =  
Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters 5.05 / 8x xx (nf)                    
Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones 5.05 / 11x x     xxx..         xxx    
    NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Book
seller
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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