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06.29 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
06.22
06.15
06.08
06.01
05.25
05.18
05.11
05.04
04.27
04.20
04.13
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
..
1.06.02
...
1.07.01
...
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:

June

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PW
BookSense
Amazon

SFFH on General Lists
29 June 2003


J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (US: Scholastic) debuts, predictably, at #1 on several lists. It's #1 at USA Today and San Francisco Chronicle, and #1 on New York Times's children's list -- a list launched 3 years ago to keep the previous Potter book from dominating its hardover fiction list.

In Britain, publisher Bloomsbury has cleverly issued the book in two editions, a regular and an 'adult', so that BookScan dutifully categories each edition appropriately. Thus the regular edition is #1 on the children's list this week, and the 'adult edition' is #1 on the fiction list.

BookSense has not updated this week, still as of Monday evening; and Wall Street Journal's list is out-of-date as posted by CNN.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.06
LAT
06.29
SFC
06.29
USAT
06.26
WP
06.29
WSJ
(06.21)
PW
06.30
(ch 06.01)
Book
Sense

06.23
Amz
(06.29)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
06.21
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 30x3 50 10x4 10x2 15x5 15x6 25x4 25x3
Hardcovers
Atwood, Oryx and Crake 05.11.03 / 8 xx xx 6 -4   xx   xxx.. [ 12 ] 8 +  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code 04.27.03 / 10 3 -1     23 +24   [ 5 ] x [ 2 ] xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 05.11.03 / 8                   11 -7
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1: The Field Guide 05.11.03 / 6x xx           x [ 13 ]    
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.01.02 / 19 10 -2 xxx..         xxx..      
Gibson, Pattern Recognition 02.09.03 / 16x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xx  
Gingrich/Forstchen, Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War 06.22.03 / 2 28 -16       5 ++   x      
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 4                 24 +  
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 05.25.03 / 5                 12 +  
King, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three 06.01.03 / 4                 16 +  
King, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands 06.01.03 / 4                 17 +  
King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass 06.01.03 / 4                 15 +  
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 5                 4 +  
Koontz, The Face 06.01.03 / 5 4 = 5 -1   44 -18   [ 4 ] 6 -3   21 +  
Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings 06.29.03 / 1 35 ++ 11 ++                
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.11.03 / 8                   6 -5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   8 +                  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 11 5 =                  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 20 1 ++   1 ++ 1 ++         1 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 1                   1 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (UK) 06.29.03 / 1                   1 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   4 +2                  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   2 +7                  
Stover, Star Wars: Shatterpoint 06.15.03 / 3 26 -2           xx      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.06
LAT
06.29
SFC
06.29
USAT
06.26
WP
06.29
WSJ
(06.21)
PW
06.30
(ch 06.01)
Book
Sense

06.23
Amz
(06.29)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
06.21
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Card, Shadow Puppets 06.22.03 / 2             9 -1 [ 5 ]    
Chabon, McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales [tpb] 04.13.03 / 9x   x xxx..           xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 47x xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx.. [ 10 ]    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl (UK) 04.27.03 / 8                   22 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 05.18.03 / 6x x           x [ 7 ]    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (UK) 04.13.03 / 12                   23 -7
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 3                 18 +  
Irwin, The Matrix and Philosophy [tpb] 05.25.03 / 6 x               9 ++  
King, From a Buick 8 (UK) 06.15.03 / 3                   8 -2
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 1x     xx              
Nicholson, Firesong 06.15.03 / 3                   25 -6
Nix, Sabriel (UK) 06.08.03 / 3x                   x
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)                     21 -8
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)                     15 -5
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                     18 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                     5 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   5 + xxx.. xxx.. 17 +            
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                     2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 47 1 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 6 +40       [ 6 ]    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                     4 +3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                     3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 107 2 = xxx.. xxx.. 8 +       [ 9 ]    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   4 +6 xxx.. xxx.. 10 +            
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] 10.20.02 / 3       50 ++         xxx..  
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee 04.13.03 / 8 xxx     xxx..     xxx..   22 +  
Yeffeth, Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix [tpb] 06.08.03 / 3                 7 +  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.06
LAT
06.29
SFC
06.29
USAT
06.26
WP
06.29
WSJ
(06.21)
PW
06.30
(ch 06.01)
Book
Sense

06.23
Amz
(06.29)
UK Book
Scan

wk ending
06.21
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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