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09.21 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
09.14
09.07
08.31
08.24
08.17
08.10
08.03
07.27
07.20
07.13
07.06
06.29
06.22
06.15
06.08
06.01
05.25
05.18
05.11
05.04
04.27
04.20
04.13
04.06
03.30
03.23
03.16
03.09
03.02
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02.16
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02.02
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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:

September

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PW
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SFFH on General Lists
21 September 2003


Neal Stephenson's much-anticipated new novel Quicksilver (Morrow), due in stores September 23, has placed on Amazon lists for 3 weeks now, ranking #8 this week on both the US and Canadian Amazon sites. It's the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle", a trilogy, with subsequent volumes to follow at approximately six month intervals. See www.baroquecycle.com for further details.

When this page is not posted on Sunday, it's usually because one or more source sites have not posted updated lists. This week the culprit is BookSense, which as of Monday evening has still not updated its list for this week (as indicated by the grayed-out table cells below). We're posting anyway.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.28
SFC
09.21
WP
09.21
USAT
09.17
PW
09.22
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

09.15
Amz
(09.22)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
09.13
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.22)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 25x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 4                   10 +
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus 08.24.03 / 5 9 -6     65 -21 9 -6 [ 12 ] x     x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code 04.27.03 / 20x xxx     xxx.. xxx..   xxx..      
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 05.11.03 / 20               21 -8 9 +  
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion (UK) 08.31.03 / 3x               x    
Gaiman/McKean, The Wolves in the Walls 08.17.03 / 6 9 -5           x     xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 15 20 -7 xxx.. xxx.. x x   xx      
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 15                   xx
Hearn, Grass for His Pillow (AUSTRALIA) 09.07.03 / 3                 3 +2  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 09.14.03 / 2             51 ++     x
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 13             63 -3     xxx
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude 09.14.03 / 2             40 ++     46 ++
Nix, Lirael (UK) 09.07.03 / 3               10 -4    
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 3 3 =     101 -10   [ 3 ]        
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.11.03 / 20               23 -8    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   8 -2           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 23 7 -2           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 32 1 = 5 +5   12 -5 xxx.. [ 2 ] 19 -2      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 13               1 = 2 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 11                   25 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 7x                   x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   6 +1           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   4 =           xxx..      
Sawyer, Humans 02.23.03 / 2x             xxx..     x
Spiegelman/Mouly, Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night 09.21.03 / 1             48 ++      
Stephenson, Quicksilver 09.07.03 / 3             8 +10     8 +61
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.28
SFC
09.21
WP
09.21
USAT
09.17
PW
09.22
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

09.15
Amz
(09.22)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
09.13
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.22)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 07.13.03 / 10x xxx     x xxx          
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 07.13.03 / 10x                   xxx..
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 10       107 -6            
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 08.24.03 / 4 9 ++     96 -36           xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 58 xxx..     xxx.. xxx..          
Colfer, Artemis Fowl (UK) 04.27.03 / 19x               x xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 58                   54 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (UK) 04.13.03 / 23x               x    
Crichton, Prey (UK) 08.17.03 / 6               11 -4    
George, Star Trek: The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins 09.14.03 / 1x x                  
Gerber, Barry Trotter & the Shameless Parody (AUS) 07.06.03 / 7x                 xx  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 09.14.03 / 2       53 +13            
King, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands 09.14.03 / 2       111 +30            
Morgan, Altered Carbon [tpb] 09.21.03 / 1             94 ++      
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 10       112 -2           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 10       148 -5            
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)                 19 -1    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)                 15 -4    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 18 +1    
Robb, Imitation in Death 09.07.03 / 3 9 -6   x 21 -12 8 -4   xx      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                 8 +2 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   7 = xxx..   145 +1            
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 4 -1 7 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 5x                   xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 59 2 = xxx..   72 -3   [ 5 ]        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                 7 = xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 5 -1 8 -2  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 119 3 = xxx..   83 -2   [ 8 ]        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   6 = xxx..   131 +5   [ 9 ]        
Tolkien, The Hobbit         136 -4 xxx..     xxx..    
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [tpb]         x            
Tolkien, The Return of the King         91 +4 xxx..     xxx..    
Tolkien, The Silmarillion [tpb] 01.19.03 / 2x             xxx..     xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.28
SFC
09.21
WP
09.21
USAT
09.17
PW
09.22
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

09.15
Amz
(09.22)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
09.13
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.22)
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales [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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