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The table compiles selected SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists.
See #Key below.

Prose Quote #117

The once-proud war galleon was named the Resolve, and she listed drunkenly in the nightmare sea...

from LOCUS Magazine

Bestseller lists compiled from sales at specialty stores:

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SFFH on General Lists
15 September 2002


Two books debut this week: Iain Banks's nongenre Dead Air (Little, Brown) at #7 on one UK list; and Michael Chabon's big fantasy novel Summerland (Talk/Miramax) at #7 on the San Francisco list — an interesting trick, since the book is not due in stores until September 17.

(Note: you can now bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
9.22
LAT
9.15
SFC
9.15
USAT
9.12
WP
9.15
WSJ
(9.15)
Book
seller
[UK] (9.15)
PW
9.16
(ch 9.01)
Book
Sense

9.16
Amz
(9.15)
Amz UK
(9.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 10x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 5.12 / 19 23 +1 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx xxx.. 9 -2
Banks, Dead Air 9.15 / 1             7 ++        
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 9.08 / 2 5 -1     37 -22   3 = 9 ++ 3 = 8 +3    
Card, Shadow Puppets 9.01 / 3 15 -2 10 +3 x xx   x   11 -1 15 -1    
Chabon, Summerland 9.15 / 1     7 ++                
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 19 6 =           xxx.. [6 -2] x    
Dick, Minority Report 7.21 / 8x                     x
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 10 xxx..   3 +         [4 -1] xx    
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 2             5 +2       5 ++
Marshall, The Straw Men 9.01 / 3             x       6 -3
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 2 4 -3     x   x   [5 ++] 3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban   x                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 114 7 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   10 +                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   xxx..                    
Tolkien, LotR Collectors' ed.                     15 =  
Paperbacks
Brooks, The Voyage.. Antrax 9.08 / 2 31 -4                    
Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter               xxx nf        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 18 x           xxx.. [1 =] 12 -6    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 9.08 / 2 32 -3             11 ++ 6 ++    
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 2 9 +1                    
King, On Writing   31 -5 nf                    
King/Straub, Black House 9.08 / 2 2 +2     4 =     2 ++ 4 = 8 ++    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               6 =   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]               7 -2   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               10 -2        
Robb, Purity in Death 9.08 / 2 3 -2 7 ++   3 -1       3 -2 x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 6.17.01 / 66 3 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 21 +25     2 =   7 -3    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 8.11 / 6 (us) 1 = x xxx 8 =     1 =   1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   2 = xxx.. xxx.. 20 +23     3 =   9 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   7 = xxx.. xxx.. 31 +54     9 +1   15 +    
Stover, The New Jedi Order: Traitor 8.11 / 6 xx xxx   xxx       xx   10 =  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring         xx       xx xx    
Tolkien, The Hobbit         30 +4       xx 9 +    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)         xxx..           2 =  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (trade)                     7 =  
Tolkien, LOTR (trade)         xxx..       x      
Tolkien, The Return of the King         xx              
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                     12 =  
Tolkien, The Two Towers         25 +12       x 10 -6    
    NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Book
seller
PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists [Italics and brackets 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)

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). 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. 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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