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04.13 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
04.06
03.30
03.23
03.16
03.09
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:

April

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PW
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SFFH on General Lists
13 April 2003


Several books debut this week, beginning with Laurell K. Hamilton's Cerulean Sins (Berkley) on 5 lists, ranking as high as #2 on 2 of them.

Michael Chabon's paperback anthology McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales debuts on 2 lists, ranking #3 in San Francisco.

Greg Bear's Darwin's Children (Del Rey), Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Avatar (Tor), and Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book (Viking) place among runners-up on the New York Times hardcover fiction list; Fforde's novel also ranks #9 in San Francisco. Brian Jacques's The Angel's Command (Philomel) debuts on 2 children's lists.

Most unusual debut this week: nonfiction anthology Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale edited by James B. South (Open Court) ranks #9 on Washington Post's paperback nonfiction list.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.20
LAT
04.13
SFC
04.13
USAT
04.09
WP
04.13
WSJ
(03.16)
PW
04.14
(ch 03.01)
Book
Sense

04.14
Amz
(04.13)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
04.05
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 30x3 50 10x4 10x2 15x5 15x6 25x4 25x3
Hardcovers
Bear, Darwin's Children 04.06.03 / 2 30 ++               21 -1  
Carey, Kushiel's Avatar 04.13.03 / 1 23 ++                  
Crichton, Prey 12.08.02 / 19 x xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. [ 8 ] xxx.. xxx.. 22 -1 xxx..
Denning, Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost 03.16.03 / 5 x xxx         xxx   17 -3  
Fforde, Lost in a Good Book 04.13.03 / 1 25 ++   9 ++              
Gibson, Pattern Recognition 02.09.03 / 10 x xxx.. 7 +2 xxx.. xxx [ 9 ] xxx.. xx 10 =  
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins 02.09.03 / 10 2 ++   10 ++ 6 ++     2 ++ 5 ++ 4 =  
Jacques, The Angel's Command 04.13.03 / 1 6 ++             5 ++    
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight 01.12.03 / 14 19 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. [ 5 ] x x 15 = xxx..
Lackey, Joust 03.16.03 / 3x xxx               xx  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   10 +                  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 6 9 +                  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 10                 1 =  
South, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale 04.13.03 / 1         9 ++          
Weber, Worlds of Honor #4: The Service of the Sword 04.06.03 / 2 x               19 =  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.20
LAT
04.13
SFC
04.13
USAT
04.09
WP
04.13
WSJ
(03.16)
PW
04.14
(ch 03.01)
Book
Sense

04.14
Amz
(04.13)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
04.05
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Chabon, McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales [tpb] 04.13.03 / 1     3 ++         13 ++    
Claremont, X-Men 2 03.23.03 / 2x xx     xxx            
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 42x xxx xxx..         xxx.. x    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 04.13.03 / 1                   6 ++
Fforde, The Eyre Affair [tpb] 03.09.03 / 6               10 +3    
Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune 03.30.03 / 2x                 x  
Herbert, Children of Dune 03.30.03 / 3                 14 +1  
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 3                 8 =  
Herbert, Dune Messiah 03.30.03 / 3                 9 =  
Herbert, God Emperor of Dune 03.30.03 / 2x                 x  
Herbert, Heretics of Dune 03.30.03 / 2x                 x  
King, Dreamcatcher 03.09.03 / 6 10 -6 10 =   20 -14     8 -4   17 -6  
King, Everything's Eventual (UK) 03.23.03 / 4                   9 -4
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)                 xxx..   25 -2
Robb, Portrait in Death 03.09.03 / 6 23 -5     x     x xxx.. 15 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                     11 +5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   9 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                     4 +7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 36 3 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       10 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                     20 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                     5 +7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 96 4 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       13 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       xxx..    
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set 02.23.03 / 8                 16 = xxx..
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee 04.13.03 / 1                 22 ++  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.20
LAT
04.13
SFC
04.13
USAT
04.09
WP
04.13
WSJ
(03.16)
PW
04.14
(ch 03.01)
Book
Sense

04.14
Amz
(04.13)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
04.05
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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