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05.17 Bestsellers

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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:

May

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17 May 2004


Karen Joy Fowler's associational novel The Jane Austen Book Club debuts on 3 more lists, to rank this week on every US list charted here.

UK's BookScan site hasn't updated this week, so without a lot of the YA books it tracks, this week's table below is shorter than usual.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.23
SFC
05.16
WP
05.16
USAT
05.09
PW
05.17
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

05.17
Amz
(05.18)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
05.01
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 50x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Colfer, The Supernaturalist 05.09.04 / 2 7 +2         9 -2        
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4: The Ironwood Tree 04.11.04 / 6 5 -2     x   5 +1        
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.02.04 / 3 15 +10 4 -1 9 ++ 95 ++ 14 ++ 6 = 15 +24     xx
Funke, Inkheart 10.12.03 / 30 xxx..     xxx.. 10 + xxx xxx..     xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World 05.02.04 / 3 22 ++     107 ++     94 -21     x
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.21.04 / 7             12 +42     54 +
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 37 2 -1     77 -11 1 + 3 +2 xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.04 / 19                 7 -4  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 66 4 +4 xxx..   xxx.. 6 + xxx.. x      
Stephenson, The Confusion 03.07.04 / 10 31 -11 x xxx x xx x 97 -48     xx
Taylor, Shadowmancer 04.25.04 / 4 3 +1     134 -51   6 -3 25 +      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.23
SFC
05.16
WP
05.16
USAT
05.09
PW
05.17
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

05.17
Amz
(05.18)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
05.01
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 05.02.04 / 2                   18 +
Atwood, Oryx and Crake [tpb] 04.11.04 / 6 xxx x   xx   11 +2        
Farmer, The House of the Scorpion 05.09.04 / 2           10 +1        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 26 xxx.. xxx..   65 +11     x      
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 2: Shadowgate (AUSTRALIA) 02.15.04 / 14                 6 -2  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 92 7 +2 xxx..   xxx..   xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 147 2 +5 xxx..   xxx..   15 +        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.23
SFC
05.16
WP
05.16
USAT
05.09
PW
05.17
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

05.17
Amz
(05.18)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
05.01
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.18)
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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