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10.19 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
10.12
10.05
09.28
09.21
09.14
09.07
08.31
08.24
08.17
08.10
08.03
07.27
07.20
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
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02.16
02.09
02.02
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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:

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SFFH on General Lists
19 October 2003


Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife (MacAdam/Cage) has debuted on 2 more lists this week. Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude remains on 3 lists; Herbert/Anderson's The Machine Crusade is still on 3 lists; Greg Keyes' Star Wars novel The Final Prophecy remains on 4 paperback lists; Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver leads with ranks on 8 lists.

Several new YA novels have come into play, in addition to Brian Jacques' Loamhedge, Christopher Paolini's Eragon, and of course the Harry Potter books. Cornelia Funke's Inkheart debuted last week on the BookSense list, this week at New York Times. The third DiTerlizzi/Black Spiderweb Chronicles, Lucinda's Secret, also debuts on this week's NYT list. New books by Ian Irvine, Scrutator, and Garth Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday, rank on Dymock's Australian children's list this week.

Robin Hobb's Fool's Fate, third book of a trilogy, ranks #1 this week in Australia on Dymock's fiction list. In the US, Peter Straub's lost boy lost girl is a runner-up, at #25, on NYT's hardcover fiction list.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.26
SFC
10.19
WP
10.19
USAT
10.17
PW
10.20
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

10.20
Amz
(10.19)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.11
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.19)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 25x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 6                   4 +
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus 08.24.03 / 8x x     xx xxx xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Bujold, Paladin of Souls 08.10.03 / 2x xx                 xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 05.11.03 / 22x               xxx.. x  
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3: Lucinda's Secret 10.19.03 / 1 10 ++                  
Funke, Inkheart 10.12.03 / 2 9 ++         10 +3        
Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights 09.28.03 / 4 34 -7     x     xx     12 +
Gaiman/McKean, The Wolves in the Walls 08.17.03 / 8x xx         xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 18x x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Hearn, Grass for His Pillow (AUSTRALIA) 09.07.03 / 6x                 x  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 09.14.03 / 6 21 -4 xxx x 135 -50 xx   89 +     xxx..
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade (UK) 10.12.03 / 1x                 x  
Hobb, Fool's Fate (UK) 10.19.03 / 1                 1 ++  
Irvine, Scrutator (AUSTRALIA) 10.19.03 / 1                 5 ++  
Jacques, Loamhedge 09.28.03 / 4 6 =     94 -26   5 -1 87 +      
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 17             14 +15     xxx..
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude 09.14.03 / 6 23 +1 2 = x xx xxx 12 +2 xx     xxx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife 10.12.03 / 2 17 +1   6 +1 138 ++   4 ++ 72 -7      
Nix, Lirael (UK) 09.07.03 / 5x               xx    
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 7 3 =     34 +7 x 2 +1 16 +18      
Pierce, Trickster's Choice 10.05.03 / 2x x     x   x        
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment 10.12.03 / 2 22 -2 9 ++   x            
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK) 10.05.03 / 3               4 = 6 = 33 +39
Rice, Blood Canticle 10.12.03 / 2             52 +39      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 36 2 = xx   26 +2 x 8 -2 24 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 17               3 -2 3 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 15                   6 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 8x                   xx
Salvatore, The Lone Drow 08.31.03 / 2             84 ++     xxx..
Stephenson, Quicksilver 09.07.03 / 7 10 -3 4 +4 4 -2 56 -17 9 -2 9 -2 29 +14     3 +
Straub, lost boy lost girl 10.19.03 / 1 25 ++                  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.26
SFC
10.19
WP
10.19
USAT
10.17
PW
10.20
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

10.20
Amz
(10.19)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.11
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.19)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 12x       xx            
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 08.24.03 / 6x xxx..     xx           xxx..
Crichton, Prey (UK) 08.17.03 / 10               22 -9    
David, Star Trek: New Frontier: Gods Above 10.12.03 / 1x       x            
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 4 10 ++     93 +56 x 6 +3       xxx
Gaiman, Coraline [tpb] 08.10.03 / 6x xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x         xxx..
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 09.14.03 / 6 xx     120 -17   xx        
Keyes, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy 10.12.03 / 2 21 -8     35 -10 10 -2   96 -6      
King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass 10.19.03 / 1       80 ++            
Lackey, Exile's Honor 10.19.03 / 1       136 ++            
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday (AUSTRALIA) 10.19.03 / 1                 8 ++  
Pratchett, Night Watch 10.19.03 / 1       147 ++            
Pratchett, Night Watch (UK) 10.05.03 / 3               2 -1    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   xx    
Rice, Blackwood Farm 10.12.03 / 2 23 -3     44 +5 14 -1         48 +5
Robb, Imitation in Death 09.07.03 / 6x xx   xxx.. x xx xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                 x xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xx xxx..   xx   xxx        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 9 -1 x  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 63 4 +1 xxx..   100 +7   12 +3        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                 x xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 12 -3 xx  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 123 6 -2 xxx..   127 -9   xx        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   8 -1 xxx..   xx   xx        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.26
SFC
10.19
WP
10.19
USAT
10.17
PW
10.20
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

10.20
Amz
(10.19)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.11
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.19)
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales [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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