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03.09 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
03.02
02.23
02.16
02.09
02.02
01.26
01.19
01.12
01.05
12.29
12.22
12.15
12.08
12.01
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7.07
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1.06.02
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1.07.01
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1.04.00

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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

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PW
BookSense
Amazon

SFFH on General Lists
9 March 2003


Debuting this week are two paperbacks: J.D. Robb's Portrait in Death (Berkley), latest in the series of detective thrillers set in 2059, and the movie tie-in paperback edition of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (Pocket). Robb debuts on 4 lists (and ranks on Amazon's not-yet-published list); King on 3 lists.

A couple not-quite-debuts are the trade paperback of Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (Penguin USA), running-up on BookSense's trade paperback list at #16; and Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Tomorrow Log (Meisha Merlin), due in February but showing up on Amazon's not-yet-published list at #20.

Meanwhile, Gibson, Jordan, and Crichton continue to dominate hardcover lists, with Crichton still on 5 lists and the other two on 7 lists each.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.16
LAT
03.09
SFC
03.09
USAT
03.05
WP
03.09
WSJ
(03.09)
PW
03.10
(ch 02.01)
Book
Sense

03.10
Amz
(03.09)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
03.01
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 30x3 50 10x4 10x2 15x5 15x6 25x4 25x3
Hardcovers
Cabot, Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator 02.02.03 / 3x x                  
Crichton, Prey 12.08.02 / 14 10 = 5 +5 xxx.. xx xxx 8 -1 9 = x 12 -2 xxx..
Elliott, The Gathering Storm 02.23.03 / 1x                 xx  
Farmer, The House of the Scorpion 02.16.03 / 2x                 xx  
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion 11.03.02 / 16x xx               xx  
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.01.02 / 11x x xxx..         [ 10 ] xx    
Gibson, Pattern Recognition 02.09.03 / 5 12 -3 x 2 -1 xxx 3 = 9 = 8 -1 6 +1 3 =  
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins 02.09.03 / 5                 14 =  
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight 01.12.03 / 9 7 = 10 -4 xxx.. x 7 +1 5 = 6 -1 12 -4 9 -1 xxx..
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon 12.29.02 / 11 30 -2 xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx..      
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 1x                 xx  
Nix, Abhorsen 01.19.03 / 7x xxx..           [ 1 ] x    
Rice, Blackwood Farm 11.10.02 / 13x xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 5                 1 =  
Sawyer, Humans 02.23.03 / 1x                 xx  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.16
LAT
03.09
SFC
03.09
USAT
03.05
WP
03.09
WSJ
(03.09)
PW
03.10
(ch 02.01)
Book
Sense

03.10
Amz
(03.09)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
03.01
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (UK) 01.12.03 / 8x                   x
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting 09.29.02 / 20 8 + xxx..   xxx..     [ 6 ] 10 +    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 39 9 -1 xxx..         [ 3 ] 11 +1    
Fforde, The Eyre Affair [tpb] 03.09.03 / 1               16 ++    
King, Dreamcatcher 03.09.03 / 1 4 ++     6 ++     5 ++      
King, Everything's Eventual 01.12.02 / 10 25 -10 xxx..   45 -26     x xxx..    
Koontz, Watchers 02.09.03 / 3x x                  
Lee/Miller, Tomorrow Log [tpb] 03.09.03 / 1                 20 ++  
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (UK) 11.17.02 / 15x                   xx
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)                 xxx..   20 =
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)                 xxx..   16 -1
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                     21 +2
Robb, Portrait in Death 03.09.03 / 1 1 ++     3 ++     2 ++ 5 ++ 2 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                     5 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   3 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       xxx    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                     2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 31 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 48 -11       3 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                     6 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                     1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 91 2 = xxx.. xxx.. x       8 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   6 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       xx    
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb] 11.24.02 / 12x x               xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set 02.23.03 / 3                 6 +1 xx
Tolkien, The Silmarillion         xxx..         25 +  
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant 02.16.03 / 4 30 -10 x   47 -24     15 -8   13 -1  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.16
LAT
03.09
SFC
03.09
USAT
03.05
WP
03.09
WSJ
(03.09)
PW
03.10
(ch 02.01)
Book
Sense

03.10
Amz
(03.09)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
03.01
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists This cell color indicates rankings on pre-publication or 'not yet published' 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.  



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