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2005 Monitor Archive


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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:

March
   
SFFH on General Lists
22 March 2005

Matthew Stover's novelization of the forthcoming Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, debuts on 2 Amazon lists this week, at #92 on the US list (book from Del Rey), and #9 on the UK list (from Century). Publication is due in early April, well ahead of the movie's release on May 19th.

Also movie-related, Del Rey's The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy appears both on USA Today's and Amazon Canada's list this week, in anticipation of the movie's release on April 29th.

Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is still #1 on San Francisco's hardcover fiction list.

J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince slips to #2 on Amazon UK's list this week, but remains #1 on the US and Canadian Amazon lists.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.27
WP
03.20
SFC
03.20
USAT
03.13
PW
03.14
(ch 03.01)
Amz
(03.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.22)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.22)
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 / 28 8 -3     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Card, Shadow of the Giant 03.13.05 / 2 11 -1   10 ++ 78 +6 11 =        
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.06.05 / 4 4 +4       8 ++        
Crichton, State of Fear 12.13.04 / 15 14 -2 x xxx 124 -45 13 -3 36 +11     xxx..
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 32 1 =     xxx.. 5 + xxx..     xxx..
Goodkind, Chainfire 12.27.04 / 13 24 -6 xxx..   xx xxx xxx..     xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.20.05 / 5             33 -10   9 ++
Luceno, Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil 02.06.05 / 7 27 -2     xxx xxx..        
Morgan, Woken Furies (UK) 03.06.05 / 3             43 -27    
Murakami, Kafka on the Shore 03.06.05 / 3 xx   1 =            
Nix, Abhorsen (UK) 04.05.04 / 11             71 -8    
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday (AUSTRALIA) 01.23.05 / 8               4 +1  
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 4           58 +7      
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 81 2 =     xxx.. 9 + xxx..     xxx..
Robb, Survivor in Death 01.30.05 / 8 19 -8 xx xxx.. xx xxx xxx..     xxx..
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 27 31 +1 xxx.. 9 -1 xxx.. xxx.. x     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 14           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 13             2 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 14                 1 =
Stover, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 03.20.05 / 1           92 ++     65 ++
Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (UK) 03.20.05 / 1             9 ++    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.27
WP
03.20
SFC
03.20
USAT
03.13
PW
03.14
(ch 03.01)
Amz
(03.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.22)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.22)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [tpb] 03.20.05 / 1       135 ++         34 ++
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 16 7 -1                
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 66 6 +1     xxx.. xxx..       xxx..
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli [tpb] 02.06.05 / 7     6 -3            
Koontz/Anderson, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book One: Prodigal Son 02.06.05 / 7 21 -8 xxx   67 -21 x        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 70 xxx..   xxx.. 93 +10 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.13.05 / 6             16 -3    
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 44 20 +1 xx x 35 -2 4 +1 43 -5     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 12             15 =    
Nix, The Creature in the Case (UK) 02.27.05 / 4             78 -23    
Nix, Lirael (UK) 07.26.04 / 7             84 -22    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.09.05 / 7               7 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 38 xxx..   xxx.. 116 = xxx.. xxx..      
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 25 9 =       xxx..        
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 7 xx   3 +3 117 +22          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.27
WP
03.20
SFC
03.20
USAT
03.13
PW
03.14
(ch 03.01)
Amz
(03.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.22)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.22)
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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