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11.02 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
10.26
10.19
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
02.23
02.16
02.09
02.02
01.26
01.19
01.12
01.05
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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:

November

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SFFH on General Lists
2 November 2003


Stephen King's 5th Dark Tower novel, Wolves of the Calla (Donald M. Grant/Scribner), which has placed on Amazon's Top 100 Bestsellers list for several months due to pre-publication orders, rises to #3 in anticipation of the book's availability this week -- it goes on sale Tuesday. Another book ranking on Amazon lists in advance of availability is the latest Star Wars novel by James Luceno, The Unifying Force (Del Rey).

The trade paperback of Gregory Maguire's Wicked debuts on 2 lists this week. And for some reason, UK paperbacks of Philip Pullman's trilogy rise sharply in BookSense rankings to place in the top 10 of its children's list this week.

The widest ranking book this week is still Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, on 6 lists, in the top 10 on 2 of them. David & Leigh Eddings' The Elder Gods, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, the latest Harry Potter novel, Greg Keyes Star Wars novel, and the paperback of Anne Rice's Blackwood Farm are on 3 lists each.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.09
SFC
11.02
WP
11.02
USAT
10.29
PW
11.03
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

11.03
Amz
(11.03)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.25
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.03)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.03)
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 / 7x                   x
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3: Lucinda's Secret 10.19.03 / 1x xx                  
Eddings/Eddings, The Elder Gods 10.26.03 / 2 25 -9     99 -17 15 ++          
Funke, Inkheart 10.12.03 / 4 10 -1         x        
Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights 09.28.03 / 6 x     xxx     xxx..     55 +
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 09.14.03 / 7x x xxx.. xxx xx xxx..   x     xxx..
Hobb, Fool's Fate (UK) 10.19.03 / 3                 3 =  
Irvine, Scrutator (AUSTRALIA) 10.19.03 / 2x                 x  
Jacques, Loamhedge 09.28.03 / 6 6 =     x   x xx      
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 19             3 +6     8 +16
Lackey, Exile's Valor 11.02.03 / 1                   54 ++
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude 09.14.03 / 8 xx 10 -3 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..     xxx..
Luceno, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force 11.02.03 / 1             58 ++     23 ++
Maguire, Mirror Mirror 10.26.03 / 2 30 -5     x            
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife 10.12.03 / 4 16 +3   xx 133 +11   x 90 -49      
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 9 3 =     34 +1 xxx x 17 -3      
Pierce, Trickster's Choice 10.05.03 / 3x x     xxx   xxx        
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment 10.12.03 / 2x xx xx   xxx            
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK) 10.05.03 / 5               9 -1 x xx
Pullman, Lyra's Oxford 11.02.03 / 1             47 ++      
Rice, Blood Canticle 10.12.03 / 4             24 -3     40 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 38 2 = xxx..   27 = xxx x 25 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 19               3 = 5 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 17                   16 -10
Salvatore, The Lone Drow 08.31.03 / 4             68 +17     29 +
Stephenson, Quicksilver 09.07.03 / 9 18 -3 4 +2 8 -2 112 -40 x x 83 -49     35 -18
Straub, lost boy lost girl 10.19.03 / 3 29 +3                  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.09
SFC
11.02
WP
11.02
USAT
10.29
PW
11.03
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

11.03
Amz
(11.03)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.25
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.03)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.03)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Crichton, Prey (UK) 08.17.03 / 10x               xx    
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 6 6 +2     100 -11 xxx x       xxx..
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 09.14.03 / 8 xxx..     139 -12   xxx..        
Keyes, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy 10.12.03 / 4 28 -3     52 -12 15 -3   xx      
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 07.13.03 / 9x x     xxx..            
King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass 10.19.03 / 3       80 -9            
Lackey, Exile's Honor 10.19.03 / 3       121 -6            
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 3   xxx..   149 ++     95 ++      
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday (AUSTRALIA) 10.19.03 / 2x                 x  
Pratchett, Night Watch 10.19.03 / 1x       xx            
Pratchett, Night Watch (UK) 10.05.03 / 5               6 =    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)             xxx..   8 +    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   2 +    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 6 +    
Rice, Blackwood Farm 10.12.03 / 4 19 +1     42 -1 12 -1         xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   10 + xxx..   xxx..   xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 15 -7 6 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 65 4 = xxx..   89 -2   x        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 21 -8 10 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 125 5 +1 xxx..   97 +12   x        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   9 +1 xxx..   xxx..   xxx..        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.09
SFC
11.02
WP
11.02
USAT
10.29
PW
11.03
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

11.03
Amz
(11.03)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.25
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.03)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.03)
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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