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Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Stephen King
Karen Joy Fowler
Ray Bradbury

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Stephen King



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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 July 2004


Two fifty year old classics of SF, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, show up prominently on lists again this week, Asimov's among the top 50 on 3 lists, Bradbury's in the top 75 on 2 lists.

Stephen King's Song of Susannah is still doing well on 6 lists in its 16th week on this chart (including pre-publication rankings). Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club is still on 5 lists this week, its 12th week on the chart.

BookSense hasn't updated its chart in the last week. The link to BookScan, a site presenting Nielsen Bookscan data from the UK, now redirects to another site; if this change is permanent (such data from the US is available by paid subscription only), that column will be replaced here by the Top 100 rankings from Amazon UK.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.25
SFC
07.18
WP
07.18
USAT
07.11
PW
07.19
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

07.09
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 50x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Colfer, The Supernaturalist 05.10.04 / 11 x       6 ++          
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.03.04 / 12 12 -1 4 -1 xxx 60 +22 12 = [ 5 ] 32 -8     xxx..
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 48 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xx     56 +
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 16 8 -1 xx 10 -2 29 -8 6 = [ 8 ] 22 +5     52 -24
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 6             57 -5     61 +
Koontz, The Taking 05.24.04 / 9 20 -4   xxx.. xx x   xxx..      
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 46 1 +1     80 -2 2 + [ 4 ] xxx..     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 75 2 -1 xxx..   73 +1 xxx.. [ 11 ] xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   9 +           xxx..      
Stewart/Riddell, Beyond the Deepwoods 07.05.04 / 3 8 +2     149 ++   [ 2 ]        
Taylor, Shadowmancer 04.26.04 / 12 xx     xxx.. 5 +   xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.25
SFC
07.18
WP
07.18
USAT
07.11
PW
07.19
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

07.09
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Asimov, I, Robot 06.21.04 / 5       44 +22   [ 10 ] 50 ++     44 ++
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 20       75 -5   [ 7 ] 58 +10     xxx..
Erikson, Midnight Tides (UK) [tpb] 07.12.04 / 2                   13 -1
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.14.04 / 6 xx     105 -12 xx         xx
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 35 xxx.. xxx..   41 -2 14 ++   xxx..     xx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 9 22 -5 x   32 -1 6 +1 [ 5 ] 26 -6      
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 16       114 +1           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 19       85 -1     x     xxx
Reaves/Perry, Star Wars: Medstar 1: Battle Surgeons 07.12.04 / 2       117 -10            
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA) 05.24.04 / 9                 3 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 [ 4 ] 8 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 101 2 = xxx..   78 +2   [ 1 ]        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 3             71 +13      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) [tpb] 07.19.04 / 1                 5 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 156 8 -2 xxx..   142 -36   [ 6 ]        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   9 -2 xxx..   xxx            
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Lone Drow 06.14.04 / 6       145 -11           xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.25
SFC
07.18
WP
07.18
USAT
07.11
PW
07.19
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

07.09
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
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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