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Bestsellers 9 Aug
China Miéville
Herbert & Anderson
D.J. MacHale

Bestsellers 2 Aug
Susanna Clarke



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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
16 August 2004


A number of debuts this week, beginning with the US edition of Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten (Viking), on 3 lists, and Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts: Return Engagement (Del Rey) , on 2 lists.

Genre-peripheral titles debuting this week are Karen Marie Moning's The Immortal Highlander (Delacorte), on 2 lists, and J.D. Robb's Visions in Death (Berkley), on 5 lists, the latter as high as #4 at Washington Post.

In paperback, titles by Kristen Britain, Jim Butcher, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, James Luceno, and Jonathan Stroud, most of them reprint editions (Butcher is an original), debut on various lists this week.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.22
WP
08.15
SFC
08.15
USAT
08.08
PW
08.16
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

08.16
Amz
(08.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.17)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 15x6 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 08.02.04 / 3             23 +6      
Fforde, Something Rotten 08.09.04 / 2 33 ++     144 ++   11 ++ x      
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.03.04 / 16 16 -1 xxx.. 6 -1 130 -20 15 -4 6 = xx     xxx
Funke, The Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 1           9 ++        
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Battle of Corrin 08.09.04 / 2             14 +16     20 +38
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 20 14 -4 xxx.. xxx.. 95 -25 12 -3 xxx 48 +     x
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 10             28 +15     x
Miéville, Iron Council 08.09.04 / 2     9 -2              
Moning, The Immortal Highlander 08.16.04 / 1 12 ++     68 ++            
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 50 2 -1     119 -21 3 + 2 = xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 08.16.04 / 1               38 ++    
Rankin, Knees Up Mother Earth (UK) 08.16.04 / 1               90 ++    
Robb, Visions in Death 08.02.04 / 3 9 ++ 4 ++   27 ++ 8 ++   x     80 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 79 3 =   xxx.. 92 -1 xxx.. xxx 71 -29      
Stewart/Riddell, Beyond the Deepwoods 07.05.04 / 7 7 =     xxx.. 7 ++ 7 -4        
Taylor, Shadowmancer 04.26.04 / 14 x     xxx.. 8 + xxx.. xxx..      
Turtledove, Settling Accounts: Return Engagement 08.16.04 / 1 24 ++     126 ++            
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.22
WP
08.15
SFC
08.15
USAT
08.08
PW
08.16
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

08.16
Amz
(08.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.17)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Akamatsu, Negima! 2 [tpb] 08.16.04 / 1       128 ++            
Asimov, I, Robot 06.21.04 / 9 xx     105 -48 x x xxx..     xxx..
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 24       88 -6   x xxx..     xxx..
Britain, First Rider's Call 08.16.04 / 1       135 ++            
Butcher, Blood Rites 08.16.04 / 1       103 ++            
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (UK) [tpb] 08.09.04 / 2                   14 +58
Colfer, The Supernaturalist (AUSTRALIA) 08.16.04 / 1                 1 ++  
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 2           15 +        
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 38 10 +     xxx.. xxx.. 8 +3       xxx..
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 08.16.04 / 1       91 ++            
Luceno, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force 08.16.04 / 1       123 ++            
MacHale, Pendragon Book Five: Blackwater [tpb] 08.09.04 / 2 2 +1     89 ++   4 +5        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 39 xxx..   xxx.. 42 -4 xxx   xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 13 24 -5   x 33 -2 6 = 5 = 25 +8      
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 20       137 +2           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 23       116 -15   xxx.. xxx..     xx
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA) 05.24.04 / 12                 10 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 105 1 =   xxx.. 113 -27   6 -1        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 5               56 -2 2 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 7             35 -26      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 160 8 -1   xxx.. xxx   x        
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 1         10 ++          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.22
WP
08.15
SFC
08.15
USAT
08.08
PW
08.16
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

08.16
Amz
(08.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.17)
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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