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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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8 February 2005


Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson's Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book One: Prodigal Son (Bantam, mass market) debuts on 4 lists this week, ranking as high as #2 on New York Times' fiction paperback list.

Also new this week: James Luceno's Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil (Del Rey) on 3 lists, and Todd McCaffrey's Dragonsblood (Del Rey) on the same 3 lists lower down.

Paperback reprints debuting this week are J.D. Robb's Visions in Death (Berkley) on 4 lists, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin) on 2 lists.

J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince remains at #1 on all the Amazon lists.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.13
WP
02.06
SFC
02.06
USAT
01.30
PW
02.07
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(02.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(02.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.08)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 22 5 +1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.06.05 / 1 6 ++                
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 28 30 -8 xxx.. xx xxx xxx.. x      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 27             84 -65   xxx..
Crichton, State of Fear 12.13.04 / 9 5 -1 3 = 10 + 36 -13 4 = 26 -10     xx
Farmer, The Sea of Trolls 12.27.04 / 4 9 =                
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 26 1 =     x xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Goodkind, Chainfire 12.27.04 / 7 7 -1 10 -2   46 -21 5 = 86 +1     xxx
Goodkind, Chainfire (UK) 01.23.05 / 3             15 +10 7 ++  
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 45 34 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Koontz, Life Expectancy 12.13.04 / 9 33 -13 xxx..   xxx xxx.. xxx..      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia 11.22.04 / 9 4 +                
Luceno, Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil 02.06.05 / 1 9 ++     65 ++ 7 ++        
McCaffrey, Dragonsblood 02.06.05 / 1 16 ++     140 ++ 14 ++        
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday (AUSTRALIA) 01.23.05 / 3               1 =  
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 75 2 +1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Robb, Survivor in Death 01.30.05 / 2           41 -6     x
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 21 19 -5 xxx.. 6 -1 x x 43 +8     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 8           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 7             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 8                 1 =
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.13
WP
02.06
SFC
02.06
USAT
01.30
PW
02.07
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(02.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(02.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barker, Abarat 10.04.04 / 8 7 +                
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 11 9 -1                
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 60 5 +2     xxx.. xxx..       xxx..
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli [tpb] 02.06.05 / 1     7 ++            
Harrison, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead 01.23.05 / 3       70 ++   x      
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla [tpb] 01.16.05 / 4 x     88 -31 x       77 ++
Koontz/Anderson, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book One: Prodigal Son 02.06.05 / 1 2 ++ 6 ++   5 ++ 3 ++        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 64 xxx..   xxx.. 98 -26 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 38 17 -4 x x 38 -7 6 -3 22 +11     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 6             12 -1    
Nix, Abhorsen (UK) 01.30.05 / 2             83 -12    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.09.05 / 5               7 +3  
Robb, Visions in Death 02.06.05 / 1 6 ++ 10 ++   12 ++ 10 ++        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 119 xxx..   xxx.. 141 -27          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 22             xxx.. 5 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 32 xxx..   xxx.. 73 -15 xxx.. xxx..      
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 19 6 +4       xxx..        
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 1     10 ++ 92 ++          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.13
WP
02.06
SFC
02.06
USAT
01.30
PW
02.07
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(02.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(02.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.08)
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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