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Bestsellers Archive
03.09
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02.09
02.02
01.26
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01.12
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12.15
12.08
12.01
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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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16 March 2003

William Gibson's Pattern Recognition still ranks on 7 lists this week. Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight remains on 5 lists, Michael Crichton's Prey on 4 lists. Three hardcovers debut this week: Troy Denning's Star Wars novel Tatooine Ghost (Del Rey) debuts on 2 lists, plus Amazon's not-yet-published list; Matthew Delaney's Jinn (St. Martin's) is on one list; and Mercedes Lackey's Joust (DAW) is a runner-up on the New York Times list, and ranks on Amazon's NYP list. Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Tomorrow Log (Meisha Merlin) moves off Amazon's NYP list to the fiction paperback list, debuting there at #25. Elsewhere, Robert J. Sawyer's Humans (Tor) has debuted at #10 on the hardcover fiction list in Canada's Globe and Mail for Saturday March 15. Robert Jordan ranks on that list at #2, Troy Denning at #9, and Stephen King's Dreamcatcher is #4 on the paperback fiction list. In Australia, the Top Ten Bestsellers at Dymocks includes Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight in 5th place. Dymocks has a separate science fiction list, led by Jordan and including books by Tolkien, McCaffrey, Adams, and Australians Garth Nix (3 titles in the top 10), Jennifer Fallon, and Sean Williams & Shane Dix. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.23	LAT 03.16	SFC 03.16	USAT 03.12	WP 03.16	WSJ (03.16)	PW 03.17 (ch 03.01)	Book Sense 03.17	Amz (03.16)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.08
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	15x4	30x3	50	10x4	10x2	15x5	15x6	25x4	25x3
Hardcovers
Cabot, Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator	02.02.03 / 3x	xx
Crichton, Prey	12.08.02 / 15	15 -5	x	xxx..	xxx	xxx..	8 =	14 -5	xx	17 -5	xxx..
Delaney, Jinn	03.16.03 / 1									23 ++
Denning, Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost	03.16.03 / 1	8 ++						9 ++		16 ++
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.01.02 / 12	xx	xxx..					10 ++	xxx
Gibson, Pattern Recognition	02.09.03 / 6	17 -5	10 +	1 +1	xxx..	7 -4	9 =	x	9 -3	4 -1
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins	02.09.03 / 6									9 +5
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12.03 / 10	10 -3	13 -3	xxx..	xx	x	5 =	8 -2	x	9 =	xxx..
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	12.29.02 / 12	33 -3	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..	xxx..
Lackey, Joust	03.16.03 / 1	28 ++								13 ++
Nix, Abhorsen	01.19.03 / 8	xxx..						6 ++	14 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 6									1 =
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.23	LAT 03.16	SFC 03.16	USAT 03.12	WP 03.16	WSJ (03.16)	PW 03.17 (ch 03.01)	Book Sense 03.17	Amz (03.16)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.08
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (UK)	01.12.03 / 8x										xx
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	09.29.02 / 21	9 -1	xxx..		xxx..			8 ++	x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 40	8 +1	xxx..					4 ++	x
Fforde, The Eyre Affair [tpb]	03.09.03 / 2								11 +5
King, Dreamcatcher	03.09.03 / 2	2 +2			4 +2			4 +1
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12.02 / 10x	x	xxx..		x			xx	xxx..
Koontz, Watchers	02.09.03 / 3x	xx
Lee/Miller, Tomorrow Log [tpb]	03.09.03 / 2									25 ++
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		x
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		x
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											x
Robb, Portrait in Death	03.09.03 / 2	4 -3			7 -4			2 =	x	6 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)											19 -14
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		5 -2	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)											10 -8
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 32	1 =	xxx..	xxx..	x				3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)											18 -12
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)											9 -8
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 92	2 =	xxx..	xxx..	xx				11 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		6 =	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xxx
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb]	11.24.02 / 12x	xx								xxx..	xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set	02.23.03 / 4									13 -7	xxx
Tolkien, The Return of the King			6 +		xxx..			xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Tolkien, The Silmarillion					xxx..					x
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant	02.16.03 / 5	x	xx		x			x		17 -4
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.23	LAT 03.16	SFC 03.16	USAT 03.12	WP 03.16	WSJ (03.16)	PW 03.17 (ch 03.01)	Book Sense 03.17	Amz (03.16)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.08
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists		This cell color indicates rankings on pre-publication or 'not yet published' 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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