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SFFH on General Lists
17 November 2002
In the UK, Terry Pratchett's Night Watch (Doubleday) is the #1 selling fiction book in the week ending November 9, while the paperback reprint of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents ranks #16 among children's books.
(This table now displays rankings from Nielsen BookScan, which compiles actual UK sales data, in the rightmost column. It replaces columns for Amazon UK, whose lists were irregularly updated, and Bookseller, whose lists were derived from BookScan. Three BookScan lists are monitored for this table, for fiction, nonfiction, and children's books; each list combines hardcovers and paperbacks.)
In the US, the paperback reprint of Terry Goodkind's The Pillars of Creation (Tor) debuts on three lists this week.
The US edition of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch (HarperCollins) is a runner-up on New York Times' hardcover fiction list at #26, and C.J. Cherryh's Explorer (DAW) ranks #10 on this week's Amazon hardcover fiction list.
All four hardcover Harry Potter novels return to the NYT list this week, so once again they are all selling in both hardcover and paperback.
San Francisco Chronicle skips its list this week (its book review devoted to best-of-the-year lists). In the table below, stale rankings are now indicated by gray shading in individual cells, not just the header row cell.
(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
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Title |
Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
11.24 |
LAT
11.17 |
SFC
11.10 |
USAT
11.14 |
WP
11.17 |
WSJ
(11.16) |
PW
11.18
(ch 10.01) |
Book
Sense
11.18 |
Amz
(11.16) |
UK Book
Scan
wk ending
11.09 |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | |
30x5 |
15x4 |
30x3 |
50 |
10x4 |
10x2 |
15x5 |
15x6 |
25x4 |
50x3 |
| Hardcovers |
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Auel, The Shelters of Stone |
5.12 / 26x |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Banks, Dead Air (uk) |
9.15 / 6x |
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Barker, Abarat |
9.29 / 7x |
xxx |
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Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr |
9.08 / 10 |
xxx |
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24 -1 |
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Chabon, Summerland |
9.15 / 9 |
x |
xxx.. |
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xx |
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[ 1 ] |
8 +3 |
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Cherryh, Explorer |
11.17 / 1 |
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10 ++ |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident |
5.12 / 23x |
xxx.. |
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[ 9 ] |
xxx.. |
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Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk (UK) |
9.22 / 7x |
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Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion |
11.03 / 2 |
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x |
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Funke, The Thief Lord |
9.01 / 12 |
x |
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[ 7 ] |
6 = |
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Gaiman, Coraline |
7.14 / 16x |
xxx.. |
[ 3 ] |
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xxx.. |
xx |
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Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad |
9.29 / 6 |
xx |
xx |
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18 -1 |
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Hobb, The Golden Fool (uk) |
10.27 / 1x |
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Jacques, Triss |
10.13 / 6 |
x |
[ 6 ] |
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7 -2 |
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King, From a Buick 8 |
9.08 / 11 |
18 -4 |
xxx |
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xxx.. |
xx |
x |
xxx.. |
7 = |
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Lackey, Exile's Honor |
10.13 / 2x |
xxx.. |
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xxx |
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McCaffrey, A Gift of Dragons |
11.10 / 2 |
x |
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8 ++ |
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Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight |
9.08 / 5x |
xxx.. |
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[ 6 ] |
xxx.. |
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Pratchett, Night Watch |
11.17 / 1 |
26 ++ |
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Pratchett, Night Watch (uk) |
11.10 / 2 |
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1 +11 |
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Rice, Blackwood Farm |
11.10 / 2 |
10 -6 |
6 +9 |
[ 10 ] |
12 -6 |
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6 -3 |
6 -3 |
14 -4 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
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5 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
7.17.00 / 118 |
2 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
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7 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone |
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8 + |
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Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs |
10.27 / 4 |
22 -1 |
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xx |
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xx |
xx |
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12 -3 |
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Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set |
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16 ++ |
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Weber, War of Honor |
10.13 / 5 |
xx |
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14 +1 |
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Williams, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way |
10.13 / 6 |
x |
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21 -8 |
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NYT
11.24 |
LAT
11.17 |
SFC
11.10 |
USAT
11.14 |
WP
11.17 |
WSJ
(11.16) |
PW
11.18
(ch 10.01) |
Book
Sense
11.18 |
Amz
(11.16) |
UK Book
Scan
wk ending
11.09 |
| Paperbacks |
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Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting |
9.29 / 8 |
6 -1 |
[ 4 ] |
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31 -3 |
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[ 10 ] |
4 -1 |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl |
5.19 / 23 |
8 +1 |
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[ 8 ] |
xxx.. |
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Drake, Realm of Shadows |
10.27 / 2x |
xx |
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Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation |
11.17 / 1 |
25 ++ |
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42 ++ |
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4 ++ |
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Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains |
10.06 / 4x |
xx |
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Hobb, Fool's Errand (uk) |
10.27 / 1x |
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Jacques, Taggerung |
9.08 / 5x |
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King/Straub, Black House |
9.08 / 10x |
x |
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16 = |
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Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven |
11.10 / 2 |
2 +1 |
9 ++ |
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5 -1 |
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2 = |
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Koontz, Strangers |
10.13 / 4x |
x |
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xx |
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Moning, The Dark Highlander |
11.03 / 2 |
xx |
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10 +1 |
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Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk) |
11.17 / 1 |
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16 +34 |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK) |
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Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy |
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22 + |
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Pullman, Northern Lights (UK) |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK) |
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Rice, Blood & Gold |
11.10 / 2 |
17 ++ |
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36 +10 |
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15 -1 |
10 -6 |
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Robb, Purity in Death |
9.08 / 9x |
xx |
xxx.. |
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xxx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
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1 = |
[ 7 ] |
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8 +2 |
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9 -1 |
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2 +7 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
8.11 (us) / 15 |
2 = |
xxx.. |
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15 +1 |
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5 = |
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11 -3 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
6.17.01 / 75 |
3 = |
xxx.. |
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28 +4 |
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12 = |
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12 -2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone |
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5 +1 |
xxx.. |
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45 + |
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24 +2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set |
10.20 / 4 |
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2 -1 |
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Tolkien, The Silmarillion |
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xx |
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Tolkien, The Two Towers |
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NYT
11.24 |
LAT
11.17 |
SFC
11.10 |
USAT
11.14 |
WP
11.17 |
WSJ
(11.16) |
PW
11.18
(ch 10.01) |
Book
Sense
11.18 |
Amz
(11.16) |
UK Book
Scan
wk ending
11.09 |
| This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists |
[Italics and brackets, and/or this cell color, 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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