SFFH on General Lists

23 March 2003

Troy Denning's Star Wars novel Tatooine Ghost (Del Rey) debuts on 2 more lists this week, adding to the 2 it first appeared on last week. The books by William Gibson, Robert Jordan, and Michael Crichton slip off one list each this week, and Crichton returns to one list, leaving Gibson still ahead on 6 lists, Jordan on 4, Crichton on 4. All three counts, however, include one for the Wall Street Journal, who presence on CNN hasn't been updated this week. In paperback, Chris Claremont's X-Men 2 novelization debuts on 2 lists, and the UK paperback of Stephen King's Everything's Eventual debuts on BookScan's list. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.30	LAT 03.23	SFC 03.23	USAT 03.19	WP 03.23	WSJ (03.16)	PW 03.24 (ch 03.01)	Book Sense 03.24	Amz (03.23)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.15
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	15x4	30x3	50	10x4	10x2	15x5	15x6	25x4	25x3
Hardcovers
Crichton, Prey	12.08.02 / 16	24 -9	14 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	[ 8 ]	x	xxx	19 -2	xxx..
Delaney, Jinn	03.16.03 / 1x									x
Denning, Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost	03.16.03 / 2	14 -6	13 ++					14 -5		15 ++
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.01.02 / 12x	xxx	xxx..					x	xxx..
Gibson, Pattern Recognition	02.09.03 / 7	21 -4	x	2 -1	xxx..	8 -1	[ 9 ]	xx	11 -2	6 -2
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins	02.09.03 / 7									5 +4
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12.03 / 11	12 -2	x	xxx..	xxx	xx	[ 5 ]	10 -2	xx	14 -5	xxx..
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	12.29.02 / 12x	x	xxx..		xxx..			xxx..
Lackey, Joust	03.16.03 / 2	29 -1								24 ++
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 2									22 +
Nix, Abhorsen	01.19.03 / 9	xxx..						x	11 +3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 7									1 =
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.30	LAT 03.23	SFC 03.23	USAT 03.19	WP 03.23	WSJ (03.16)	PW 03.24 (ch 03.01)	Book Sense 03.24	Amz (03.23)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.15
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	09.29.02 / 21x	x	xxx..		xxx..			x	xx
Claremont, X-Men 2	03.23.03 / 1	35 ++			43 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 41	9 -1	xxx..					x	xx
Fforde, The Eyre Affair [tpb]	03.09.03 / 3								13 -2
King, Dreamcatcher	03.09.03 / 3	2 =			2 +2			2 +2
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12.02 / 10x	xx	xxx..		xx			xxx	xxx..
King, Everything's Eventual (UK)	03.23.03 / 1										7 ++
Lee/Miller, Tomorrow Log [tpb]	03.09.03 / 2x									x
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		xx
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		22 +
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											xx
Robb, Portrait in Death	03.09.03 / 3	3 +1			11 -4			6 -4	xx	8 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)											16 +3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		6 -1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)											9 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 33	1 =	xxx..	xxx..	xx				5 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)											18 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)											10 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 93	3 -1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx				14 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		7 -1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set	02.23.03 / 5									9 +4	xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King			x		xxx..			xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Tolkien, The Silmarillion					xxx..					23 +
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant	02.16.03 / 5x	xx	xxx		xx			xx		x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.30	LAT 03.23	SFC 03.23	USAT 03.19	WP 03.23	WSJ (03.16)	PW 03.24 (ch 03.01)	Book Sense 03.24	Amz (03.23)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.15
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.