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Bestsellers 7 Jun
Stephen King
Dean Koontz

Bestsellers 31 May
G.P. Taylor
J.K. Rowling



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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:

June

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14 June 2004


Steven Barnes' new Star Wars novel, The Cestus Deception (Del Rey), debuts on 2 lists this week.

Dean Koontz's The Taking remains on 4 lists this week; Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club remains on 8 lists. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah, still ranks high on Amazon lists but hasn't yet placed on newspaper or magazine lists.

Paperback debuts this week include Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire (Tor), on 2 lists, and R.A. Salvatore's The Lone Drow (Wizards of the Coast), on 1 list.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.20
SFC
06.13
WP
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USAT
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PW
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 50x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barnes, Star Wars: The Cestus Deception 06.14.04 / 1 21 ++     146 ++            
Colfer, The Supernaturalist 05.10.04 / 6 8 +1         13 -3        
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.03.04 / 7 9 +4 2 +1 8 +1 91 -17 10 = 4 = 40 -16     20 +
Gingrich/Forstchen, Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War 06.22.03 / 10 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   98 -10      
Gingrich/Forstchen, Grant Comes East 06.07.04 / 2             45 -17      
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli 03.29.04 / 11 xxx.. 9 -2         xxx..      
Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon (AUSTRALIA) 06.07.04 / 2                 3 =  
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 44 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 97 -14     xxx..
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 11             8 -7     14 -11
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 2             x     51 ++
Koontz, The Taking 05.24.04 / 4 5 -1   7 -1 36 -16 4 =   xx      
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 11             34 +20     x
Nix, Abhorsen (UK) 04.05.04 / 9               50 -7    
Nix, Lirael (UK) 09.07.03 / 13               47 -5    
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 41 2 =     90 -15 1 + 6 -4 xx     xxx..
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky 06.07.04 / 2             96 -49      
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 5               4 = 5 = 52 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 70 6 -1 xxx..   105 +8 xxx.. 15 + 74 +8      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 49               22 +13 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   9 +           xxx..      
Stephenson, The Confusion 03.08.04 / 12 xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     36 +
Taylor, Shadowmancer 04.26.04 / 8 5 -4     119 -53 2 ++ 7 -6 xxx      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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06.13
WP
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Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 05.03.04 / 6                   30 -8
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 15       116 +13            
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 04.05.04 / 9               34 -2    
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.14.04 / 1 34 ++     51 ++            
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 30 xxx.. xxx..   62 -6     68 -4      
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 4 25 +5 7 ++   33 +15 7 = 8 +1 36 -1      
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 2: Grim Tuesday (UK) 06.07.04 / 2               12 +17    
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 14       115 -3   x 91 ++      
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.03.04 / 6               1 = 10 =  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)             xxx..   32 -7    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   28 -7    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 33 -9    
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA) 05.24.04 / 4                 1 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                 29 + xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 8 +1 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 96 2 +4 xxx..   72 +15   3 +10        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                 19 +22 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 5 +1 6 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 151 1 = xxx..   41 +2   1 +4        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   5 + xxx..   133 +15   11 +        
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] 10.20.02 / 18       xxx..     48 +1      
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Lone Drow 06.14.04 / 1       83 ++            
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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06.13
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06.14
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Australia:
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Canada:
Amz.ca
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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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