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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 General Lists
3 November 2002


All four Harry Potter novels appear on this week's New York Times children's bestseller lists, in both hardcover and in paperback. This only happened once before, the week that the US paperback of Goblet of Fire debuted (August 11).

Two debuts this week: Jude Fisher's The Two Towers Visual Companion (Houghton Mifflin), at #19 on Amazon's fiction list, even though it hasn't been published yet; and Karen Marie Moning's The Dark Highlander (Dell) on both the Amazon and NYT paperback fiction lists. (This chart sometimes overlooks genre hybrids like Moning's time-travel romance, and it deliberately omits literary novels, like Eco's Baudolino and Sebold's The Lovely Bones, that may have some genre interest.)

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.10
LAT
11.03
SFC
11.03
USAT
10.31
WP
11.03
WSJ
(11.05)
Book
seller
[UK] (11.05)
PW
11.04
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

11.04
Amz
(11.05)
Amz UK
(11.05)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 10x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 5.12 / 26 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 7 +1
Banks, Dead Air 9.15 / 6x             xxx       xx
Barker, Abarat 9.29 / 6 x                 25 ++ 2 +1
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 9.08 / 9 x xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 23 -8 (16 +1)
Card, Shadow Puppets 9.01 / 8x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xx  
Chabon, Summerland 9.15 / 7 8 +1 xxx 6 -1   8 +1     [1 ++] 4 +2    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 23x xxx..           xxx.. [9 -3] xxx..    
Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk 9.22 / 7             xxx..       1 =
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion 11.03 / 1                   19 ++  
Funke, The Thief Lord 9.01 / 10 2 =             [7 ++] 7 -3    
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 15x xxx..   xxx..         [x] xxx.. x  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: Butlerian Jihad 9.29 / 6 27 -3 15 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xx   xx xxx.. 17 -12  
Hobb, The Golden Fool 10.27 / 1x                     x
Jacques, Triss 10.13 / 4 5 -2     xx         5 -3    
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 9 7 -2 x   24 -9 xxx 9 = xxx.. 7 -2 xx 7 -5 6 +1
Lackey, Exile's Honor 10.13 / 2x xx                 xx  
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 5x xxx..     xxx..   xxx..   [6 -1] xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban   10 -3                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 117 6 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   4 +1                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   9 +                    
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs 10.27 / 2 12 -1     39 -9   7 =   11 -1   9 ++  
Weber, War of Honor 10.13 / 4 26 -1 xx xxx xxx       xx xxx 15 -9  
Williams, Star Wars.. Destiny's Way 10.13 / 4 20 -4 xx   xx       xx   13 -6  
    NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Book
seller
PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
Paperbacks
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting 9.29 / 6 3 =     20 +7       [10 ++] 1 +4    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 21x xxx..           xxx.. 8 -7 xxx..    
Drake, Realm of Shadows 10.27 / 2 33 -5                    
Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 10.06 / 4 27 +     xxx..       xxx   xxx..  
Hobb, Fool's Errand 10.27 / 1x                     x
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 5x xxx             [3 ++] xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 9.08 / 9 18 =     45 -4     10 -3 x (mm) xxx..   1 +1
Koontz, Strangers 10.13 / 3 17 -2     35 -3              
Moning, The Dark Highlander 11.03 / 1 24 ++                 11 ++  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               9 =   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]               7 =   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               xx        
Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy (mm)                     xx  
Robb, Purity in Death 9.08 / 9 32 +1 xxx..   xxx..       xxx.. xxx.. xx  
Rowling, Harry Potter set 10.20 / 3                   1 +4  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 6.17.01 / 73 5 = xxx.. xxx.. 30 +8     3 +1   10 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 8.11 / 13 (us) 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 16 +7     4 -1   3 +4    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   2 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 8 +25     6 -1   9 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   6 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     10 -2   xxx..    
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                     x  
Tolkien, The Two Towers         xxx..       xxx.. 9 +1    
    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 and brackets indicate stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before -- and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]

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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