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01.19 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
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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:

January

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USA Today
PW
BookSense
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SFFH on General Lists
19 January 2003


Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight (Tor) debuts on 6 US lists, at #1 on five of them (including New York Times, where it was a runner-up last week, and thus not yet on the official list). It's ranking lower on UK's BookScan list, down 1 to #20 this week.

Also debuting this week is Garth Nix's Abhorsen (Eos), ranking high on two children's lists.

San Francisco Chronicle hasn't posted a list this weekend, but all other lists are updated. Los Angeles Times posted its occasional children's list.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.26
LAT
01.19
SFC
01.12
USAT
01.16
WP
01.19
WSJ
(01.19)
PW
01.20
(ch 01.01)
Book
Sense

01.20
Amz
(01.19)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
01.11
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 30x3 50 10x4 10x2 15x5 15x6 25x4 25x3
Hardcovers
Allende, City of the Beasts 12.29 / 1x                    
Barker, Abarat 9.29 / 9x xxx.. xxx..             xxx..  
Bradbury, Let's All Kill Constance 01.12 / 1x   x                
Chabon, Summerland 9.15 / 18 xxx.. xxx.. [ 6 ]   xxx..   [ 4 ] 14 +1    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 26 xxx.. 5         [ 7 ] xxx..    
Crichton, Prey 12.08 / 7 4 -1 2 = [ 10 ] 17 -9 2 = 3 -1 3 -1 6 -4 2 = xxx..
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion 11.03 / 11 33 -27               7 =  
Funke, The Thief Lord 9.01 / 21 xx 3         [ 1 ] 7 -2    
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 19x xxx.. x         xxx.. xxx.. xxx  
Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody (uk) 12.01 / 0x                   xx
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 9.29 / 12x xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx  
Hobb, The Golden Fool 01.19 / 1                 8 ++  
Jacques, Triss 10.13 / 12x xxx.. x   xxx..     [ 6 ] xx    
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight 01.12 / 2 1 +31 11 ++   1 ++   1 ++ 1 ++ 1 ++   20 -1
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 20 x xxx..   xx xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx.. 22 +1  
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon 12.29 / 4 3 -1 7 -2   34 -13   6 -2 5 -2      
Nix, Abhorsen 01.19 / 1 3 ++             2 ++    
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 5x xxx..     xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Pratchett, Night Watch (uk) 11.10 / 11                   23 -15
Pratchett, Night Watch 11.17 / 4x xxx..               xxx..  
Rice, Blackwood Farm 11.10 / 11 20 -2 xx   xxx..   xxx.. xx xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   9 -1     xxx..            
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 126 8 -3 xxx..   xxx..   xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   6 =     xxx..            
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   10 +     xxx..            
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs 10.27 / 10x xx     xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..  
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy 11.24 / 6                 16 =  
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set                   xxx..  
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars 01.05 / 3                 11 -2  
   NYT
01.26
LAT
01.19
SFC
01.12
USAT
01.16
WP
01.19
WSJ
(01.19)
PW
01.20
(ch 01.01)
Book
Sense

01.20
Amz
(01.19)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
01.11
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (uk) 01.12 / 0x                   9 +7
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting 9.29 / 17 9 = 7   xxx..     [ 8 ] xxx..    
Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Photo Guide [tpb] 11.24 / 2x xxx               xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 32 10 -4           [ 3 ] 11 -4    
Cook, Taken 12.15 / 3x xxx                  
Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth [tpb]                   20 -6  
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 11.17 / 9x x     xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings [tpb]                   xx x
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 5x xxx..           xxx.. xxx..    
King, Everything's Eventual 01.12 / 2 3 = 10 ++   6 =     5 -1 x    
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 11.10 / 11 20 -9 xxx..   44 -14     x xxx..    
Koontz, Strangers 10.13 / 4x xxx..     xxx..            
Lem, Solaris [tpb] 12.15 / 1x                 xxx..  
Martin, A Storm of Swords [tpb]                   x  
Moning, The Dark Highlander 11.03 / 4x xxx..               xxx..  
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk) 11.17 / 10                   3 +2
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)                 xxx..   16 +
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy                   xx  
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)                 xxx..   11 +11
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                     17 +
Rice, Blood & Gold 11.10 / 6x xxx..     xxx..     xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   3 = x   x       8 -2   7 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 8.11 (us) / 24 1 = xxx..   28 -12       1 =   4 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 6.17.01 / 84 2 = xxx..   38 -19       3 -1   2 +5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   4 = xxx..   xx       x   12 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] 10.20 / 13       xxx..         4 -1 xx
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb] 11.24 / 7 18 -9               xxx.. 25 -2
Taylor/Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures [tpb] 12.29 / 2x x                  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring         24 -11       6 -1    
Tolkien, The Hobbit         14 -4     xxx.. 8 -2   24 ++
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [tpb]         43 -28       11 -1    
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set         35 -18       xx    
Tolkien, The Return of the King [tpb]                 x    
Tolkien, The Return of the King     x   10 -5     6 +1 3 =   15 -2
Tolkien, The Silmarillion         x         2 -1  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion [tpb]                   17 =  
Tolkien, The Two Towers     x   23 -9     13 -5 10 -6   25 -3
   NYT
01.26
LAT
01.19
SFC
01.12
USAT
01.16
WP
01.19
WSJ
(01.19)
PW
01.20
(ch 01.01)
Book
Sense

01.20
Amz
(01.19)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
01.11
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)

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, and BookScan, which combines hardcovers and paperbacks within lists for fiction, nonfiction, and children's. 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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