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Bestsellers 26 Jul
Isaac Asimov
Jasper Fforde

Bestsellers 19 Jul
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury



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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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2 August 2004


Susanna Clarke's forthcoming fantasy novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury), due to be published Sept. 8th in the US, benefited from advance publicity in yesterday's New York Times Magazine article to rank as high as #15 on Amazon's Top 100 list today.

This season's genre and associated bestsellers, Stephen King's The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah and Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club, are still performing notably. King's novel ranks on 6 lists this week, as high as #9 at Publishers Weekly; Fowler's is also still on 6 lists, as high as #6 at BookSense. The trade paperback of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife, after 11 weeks, is also on 6 lists, ranking in the top 10 on 3 of them.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.08
WP
08.01
SFC
08.02
USAT
07.25
PW
08.02
(ch 07.01)
Book
Sense

08.02
Amz
(08.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.02)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.02)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 15x6 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Bakker, The Warrior-Prophet (CANADA) 06.28.04 / 4                   31 +
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 08.02.04 / 1             15 ++      
Eddings/Eddings, The Treasured One (UK) 07.26.04 / 2               85 -2    
Fforde, Something Rotten (UK) 07.26.04 / 2               28 -17    
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.03.04 / 14 14 -1 xxx.. 7 -2 78 -8 15 -5 6 = 90 -10     x
Funke, Inkheart 10.12.03 / 31 xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     37 +
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 49 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     73 +
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 18 11 = xx xxx.. 45 -8 9 = x 44 -12     39 +4
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (UK) 06.21.04 / 6               30 -1    
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 8             66 +4     16 +
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (UK) 07.26.04 / 2               65 -20    
Koontz, The Taking 05.24.04 / 11 31 -6 xxx..   xxx.. xxx   xxx..      
Koontz, The Taking (UK) 08.02.04 / 1               89 ++    
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 15             xxx..     20 -3
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 48 1 +1     88 -11 xx 2 = xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 11               88 -53 xxx.. xxx..
Robb, Visions in Death 08.02.04 / 1             49 ++      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 77 2 +1   xxx.. 90 -16 xxx.. x x      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 38                   21 +44
Stewart/Riddell, Beyond the Deepwoods 07.05.04 / 5 9 -2     xx   5 +1        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.08
WP
08.01
SFC
08.02
USAT
07.25
PW
08.02
(ch 07.01)
Book
Sense

08.02
Amz
(08.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.02)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.02)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Asimov, I, Robot 06.21.04 / 7 23 +5     32 +6 7 +5 7 -1 xx     xx
Asimov, I, Robot (UK) 08.02.04 / 1               58 ++    
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 22       70 +5   10 = xx     xxx..
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 36 xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. 11 +4       xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.14.04 / 8 xxx..     132 -20 xxx..         xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 37 xxx..   xxx.. 38 +7 x   xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 11 17 -2   6 +1 27 +5 8 -2 7 +1 34 -13      
Nylund, Halo: First Strike 12.14.03 / 17 xxx..     xxx.. xxx..     74 ++    
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 18       122 -3           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 21       83 -1   xxx.. xxx     15 +
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.03.04 / 12                 8 =  
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 1               91 ++    
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA) 05.24.04 / 11                 4 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                   2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 103 2 -1   xxx.. 94 -13   4 -1        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 3               60 -26 2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 5             54 +25      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 158 8 =   xxx.. x   12 -1        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.08
WP
08.01
SFC
08.02
USAT
07.25
PW
08.02
(ch 07.01)
Book
Sense

08.02
Amz
(08.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.02)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.02)
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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