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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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SFFH on General Lists
12 April 2004


Two new books are runners-up on the New York Times fiction hardcover list: Raymond E. Feist's King of Foxes (Eos) at #20, and Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis' 1634: The Galileo Affair (Baen) at #29.

Book 4 of Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black's The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Ironwood Tree (Simon & Schuster), debuts on children's lists at BookScan and BookSense (UK), and ranks #90 on the the composite USA Today. (USA Today changed the link to its bestseller list; the new link is bookslist.usatoday.com.)

In paperback, debuts include the trade edition of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (Anchor), Raymond E. Feist's Talon of the Silver Hawk (Eos), and Weber & Ringo's March to the Stars (Baen>).

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.18
SFC
04.11
WP
04.11
USAT
04.04
PW
04.12
(ch 04.01)
Book
Sense

04.12
Amz
(04.13)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
04.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(04.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.13)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 50x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4: The Ironwood Tree 04.11.04 / 1       90 ++   4 ++        
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4: The Ironwood Tree (UK) 04.11.04 / 1               15 ++    
Feist, King of Foxes 04.04.04 / 2 20 ++     144 ++     x      
Flint/Dennis, 1634: The Galileo Affair 04.11.04 / 1 29 ++                  
Funke, Inkheart 10.12.03 / 27 xxx..     xxx.. 10 + 15 -6 xxx..     xxx..
Gemmell, Swords of Night and Day (UK) 04.04.04 / 2               50 ++ 9 =  
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli 03.28.04 / 3   3 =                
Jordan, New Spring 12.28.03 / 16 31 -14   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Kay, The Last Light of the Sun (CANADA) 02.22.04 / 6                   38 +19
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 8             xxx..     27 +
Nix, Abhorsen (UK) 04.04.04 / 2               5 +10    
Nix, Lirael (UK) 09.07.03 / 6               17 +    
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 32 2 =     39 + 1 + 6 -4 xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.04 / 14               50 -10 2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 61 7 = xxx..   xx 7 + xx 42 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 42               45 -9 xxx..  
Saul, Black Creek Crossing 03.28.04 / 3 26 -6                  
Stephenson, The Confusion 03.07.04 / 5             22 +67     13 +13
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.18
SFC
04.11
WP
04.11
USAT
04.04
PW
04.12
(ch 04.01)
Book
Sense

04.12
Amz
(04.13)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
04.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(04.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.13)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, Oryx and Crake [tpb] 04.11.04 / 1       127 ++   12 ++        
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (UK) [tpb] 04.04.04 / 2               24 +7    
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (AUSTRALIA) [tpb] 03.14.04 / 5                 6 =  
Chabon, Summerland [tpb] 02.29.04 / 7           9 -2        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl (UK) 04.27.03 / 21               49 + xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 04.04.04 / 2               9 +20    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf (UK) 03.07.04 / 6               13 -12    
Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk 04.11.04 / 1       124 ++            
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 29 xx     xxx.. 8 + 7 -1       xxx..
Gemmell, White Wolf (UK) 04.11.04 / 1               41 ++    
Gibson, Pattern Recognition [tpb] 02.01.04 / 9   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..       34 -5
Jordan, New Spring (AUSTRALIA) [tpb] 03.14.04 / 5                 10 =  
King, Four Past Midnight 03.14.04 / 5 22 -5     49 + x         xx
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 21 xxx.. xxx..   63 +     x      
Nix, Sabriel (UK) 06.08.03 / 4               44 +    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)             xxx..   11 +2    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   6 +3    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 10 +1    
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 1: Dragon's Nest (AUSTRALIA) 02.01.04 / 11                 6 =  
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 2: Shadowgate (AUSTRALIA) 02.15.04 / 9                 5 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 22 +5 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 88 xxx xxx..   xx   13 +1        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 21 = xx  
Stewart/Riddell, Muddle Earth (UK) 03.14.04 / 5               29 +3    
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars 04.11.04 / 1       98 ++            
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.18
SFC
04.11
WP
04.11
USAT
04.04
PW
04.12
(ch 04.01)
Book
Sense

04.12
Amz
(04.13)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
04.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(04.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.13)
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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