SFFH on General Lists

2 February 2003

Not much new this week; Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight (Tor) maintains on all lists except UK's BookScan, and the San Francisco Chronicle, which hasn't bothered to post an update on its site for the second time in three weeks. The one new title is Meg Cabot's Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator (HarperCollins), which debuts at #5 on the New York Times YA hardcover list this week. BookSense notes the paperback of David Brin's Kiln People (Tor) as "on the rise" at #21 (below its standard cutoff of 15 per category), with the comment "76 Pick; science fiction that should be read and noticed". (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.09	LAT 02.02	SFC 01.26	USAT 01.29	WP 02.02	WSJ (02.02)	PW 02.03 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.03	Amz (01.26)	UK Book Scan wk ending 01.25
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	15x4	30x3	50	10x4	10x2	15x5	15x6	25x4	25x3
Hardcovers
Bradbury, Let's All Kill Constance	01.12 / 3		13 -6
Cabot, Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator	02.02 / 1	5 ++
Chabon, Summerland	9.15 / 19x	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..		[ 4 ]	x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	5.12 / 26x	xxx..						[ 7 ]	xxx..
Crichton, Prey	12.08 / 9	7 =	7 +1		25 -5	x	4 -1	5 -1	5 +1	3 +1	xxx..
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion	11.03 / 13	23 -1								9 +1
Funke, The Thief Lord	9.01 / 23	xxx..						[ 1 ]	6 =
Hobb, Golden Fool	01.19 / 3									10 +3
Jacques, Triss	10.13 / 12x	xxx..	xxx		xxx..			[ 6 ]	xxx..
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12 / 4	2 -1	3 =		5 -2	2 -1	2 -1	2 -1	2 =	2 =	xx
King, From a Buick 8	9.08 / 22	x	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	17 +8
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	12.29 / 6	5 +1	10 -4		49 -7		8 -2	7 =
Nix, Abhorsen	01.19 / 3	6 =							2 =
Pratchett, Night Watch (uk)	11.10 / 13										xx
Rice, Blackwood Farm	11.10 / 11x	xx	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets		x			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	7.17.00 / 127x	x	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		x			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone		xx			xxx..
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy	11.24 / 6x									xx
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars	01.05 / 5									22 -3
		NYT 02.09	LAT 02.02	SFC 01.26	USAT 01.29	WP 02.02	WSJ (02.02)	PW 02.03 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.03	Amz (01.26)	UK Book Scan wk ending 01.25
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (uk)	01.12 / 0x										12 -1
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	9.29 / 18	8 +	[ ]		xxx..			[ 8 ]	xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	5.19 / 34	9 -1						[ 3 ]	11 +1
Cook, Taken	12.15 / 3x	xxx..
Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth [tpb]										xx
Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings [tpb]										xxx..	xxx
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12 / 4	4 =	8 +		8 -1			4 =	x
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven	11.10 / 13	29 -3	xxx..		43 +2			xxx	xxx..
Martin, A Storm of Swords [tpb]										24 =
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk)	11.17 / 12										4 -1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		12 +2
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy										xxx..
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		7 +2
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											11 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		3 =	xxx		xxx				9 +5		5 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	8.11 (us) / 26	1 =	xxx..		15 +8				1 =		2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	6.17.01 / 86	2 =	xxx..		29 +6				4 +1		1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		4 =	xxx..		xxx..				x		3 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb]	10.20 / 13x				xxx..					xx	20 +2
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb]	11.24 / 9	24 +4								xxx..	xx
Taylor/Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures [tpb]	12.29 / 2x	xxx
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring					48 -16				x
Tolkien, The Hobbit					24 -3			xxx..	9 +		21 +4
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [tpb]					xx				xx
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set					xx				xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King			xxx		11 -2			10 -3	4 +1		24 -5
Tolkien, The Return of the King [tpb]									xxx
Tolkien, The Silmarillion					xxx					5 -2
Tolkien, The Silmarillion [tpb]										xx
Tolkien, The Two Towers			xxx		46 +2			xx	10 +		xx
		NYT 02.09	LAT 02.02	SFC 01.26	USAT 01.29	WP 02.02	WSJ (02.02)	PW 02.03 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.03	Amz (01.26)	UK Book Scan wk ending 01.25
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists				[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.