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07.20 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
07.13
07.06
06.29
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
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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:

July

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SFFH on General Lists
20 July 2003


Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix slips to #2 in San Francisco, while the 'Adult Editions' in the UK and Canada slip several notches but remain in the top 10.

Dan Simmon's Ilium (Eos) shows up on Amazon's Top-100 list at #99 (when viewed Sunday morning; the list is updated hourly).

Beginning this week, the Amazon, Amazon Canada, and USA Today lists are compiled to their full extent (100 or 150), not just the top 50. This puts some regularly selling backlist paperback classics by Bradbury and Orwell on the chart. Both Amazon lists are updated hourly, producing sometimes curious results. When checked, Canada's list included Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others (last year's Tor hardcover) at #36, but where will it be an hour from now?

Meanwhile, BookSense's occasional Top 10 SF and fantasy list, posted July 17, is led by Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (Del Rey).

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.27
SFC
07.20
WP
07.20
USAT
07.18
PW
07.21
(ch 06.01)
Book
Sense

07.21
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.12
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 25x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, Oryx and Crake 05.11.03 / 10x xxx.. x xxx..   xxx.. xx xxx      
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (UK) 07.06.03 / 1x                 xx  
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 2x                   x
Card, Shadow Puppets 09.01.02 / 3       148 -21            
Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others 07.20.03 / 1                   36
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code 04.27.03 / 13 8 -2     73 +5 xxx.. 9 = 87      
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 05.11.03 / 11               9 +2 7 -1  
Froud, The World of the Dark Crystal 07.06.03 / 1x                   xx
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.01.02 / 20x xx       xxx.. xxx..        
Gingrich/Forstchen, Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War 06.22.03 / 5 26 -7   xxx 141 -20 xxx..          
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 6             29 +     5
Hoffman, The Probable Future 07.06.03 / 3 29 -2 4 ++     xx 12 +2        
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 05.25.03 / 8 20 +10       xx   xxx      
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 6x             xxx     xx
King, The Stand (CANADA) 07.20.03 / 1                   13
Koontz, The Face 06.01.03 / 8 15 -3     131 -43 15 -5   xxx     76
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.11.03 / 11               8 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   5 =           xx      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 14 2 =           xx      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 23 1 = 2 -1   1 =   1 = 1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 4               1 = 1 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 3                   1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (UK) 06.29.03 / 4               6 -5 xx  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 3                   10 -8
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (CANADA) 07.13.03 / 1x                   x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   3 +1           xx      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   4 -1           xx      
Simmons, Ilium 07.20.03 / 1             99 ++      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.27
SFC
07.20
WP
07.20
USAT
07.18
PW
07.21
(ch 06.01)
Book
Sense

07.21
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.12
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Anderson, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 07.20.03 / 1       108 -136            
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 07.13.03 / 2 2 =     10 = 2 ++ 4 -1        
Auel, The Shelters of Stone (UK) 05.11.03 / 8               xxx.. 9 +1  
Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of The Prince of Nothing (CANADA) [tpb] 07.06.03 / 1x                   xx
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 1       75 +15            
Card, Shadow Puppets 06.22.03 / 5         xxx 10 -3       xx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 50 7 +     xxx.. xxx.. 12 +2        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl (UK) 04.27.03 / 11               13 +5    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 05.18.03 / 9 xxx..       xxx.. 14 -3        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (UK) 04.13.03 / 15               17 +2    
Gerber, Barry Trotter & the Shameless Parody (AUS) 07.06.03 / 3                 5 =  
Hagberg, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 07.20.03 / 1       146 -51            
Irvine, Dark Is the Moon (UK) 07.06.03 / 1x                   xx
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 07.13.03 / 2       48 -6            
King, From a Buick 8 (UK) 06.15.03 / 6               12 -2    
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 2x   xx                
Moore/O'Neill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [tpb] 07.13.03 / 2             98 -63     x
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 1       119 +1            
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 1       90 +6            
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)             xxx..   20 =    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   12 +1    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 21 -4    
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (UK) 07.06.03 / 2                 10 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                 4 = 8 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 1x                   xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   4 = xxx..   18 -1   4 +1        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 3 = 2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 1x                   xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 50 1 = xxx..   9 -3   2 =        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                 5 = 4 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 2 = 3 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 1x                   xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 110 2 = xxx..   13 -4   3 =        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   3 = xxx..   16 -5   4 =        
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] 10.20.02 / 6       63 -11     28 -2      
Rowling, Harry Potter Schoolbooks Box Set [tpb] 07.06.03 / 1x                   xx
Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages (UK) 07.06.03 / 1x                 xx  
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs 07.13.03 / 2 34 +1     66 +3            
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion 07.13.03 / 2 22 -9     33 -11 10 -4   67      
Willis, Doomsday Book 07.20.03 / 1                   43
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.27
SFC
07.20
WP
07.20
USAT
07.18
PW
07.21
(ch 06.01)
Book
Sense

07.21
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.12
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
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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