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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:

September

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13 September 2004


Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury) debuts on 5 more lists, to rank on 7 US lists, this week, among the top 10 on all but one of them.

Debuting this week, aside from pre-publication sales on Amazon, is Terry Brooks' High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil (Del Rey), on 5 new lists, as high as #4 at Publishers Weekly.

Two books (by King and Robb) drop off USA Today's list this week, but a remarkable 13 genre titles debut on the list, including the Peter Pan prequel Peter and the Starcatchers (Disney) by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (which also debuts on 2 other lists); and paperbacks by Brooks, Canavan, Hamilton, Lackey & Mallory, Mack, Monteleone & Monteleone, Pratchett, Rice, and Robb.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.19
WP
09.12
SFC
09.12
USAT
09.05
PW
09.13
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

09.08
Amz
(09.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.13)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.13)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 15x6 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 1 6 ++     143 ++   7 ++        
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil 08.23.04 / 4 7 ++ 9 ++   31 ++ 4 ++ 11 ++ 62 +1      
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil (UK) 08.30.04 / 3               64 -15    
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 7 9 ++ 6 ++ 2 +3 48 ++ 10 ++ 2 ++ 4 =      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 6               32 ++   4 =
Feist, Exile's Return (UK) 08.23.04 / 4               20 +1    
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.03.04 / 20 x xxx.. 5 + xxx xxx.. 6 = xxx..     xxx..
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 5 1 =     73 -8   1 +1 95 ++      
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams 08.30.04 / 3             25 +27     x
Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon (UK) 09.13.04 / 1               53 ++    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Battle of Corrin 08.09.04 / 6 13 -4 xx x 64 -22 9 -1 x x     xx
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Battle of Corrin (UK) 08.30.04 / 3               x 9 =  
Jacques, Rakkety Tam 09.06.04 / 2 10 ++           78 -35      
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 24 25 -5 xxx.. xxx.. x xxx xxx.. 75 -15     xxx
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 14             8 =     7 +31
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (UK) 07.26.04 / 5               28 +2    
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 54 3 =     98 -8 xxx.. 5 +1 xxx..     xxx..
Pierce, Trickster's Queen (AUSTRALIA) 09.06.04 / 2                 2 =  
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 08.16.04 / 5               19 +10    
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 13               93 + xxx.. xxx..
Robb, Visions in Death 08.02.04 / 7 18 -6 xxx   x xx   xxx..     xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 33 8 +         12 -2 xxx..      
Stroud, The Golem's Eye 08.30.04 / 3 5 +2     146 ++   3 +2 53 +      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.19
WP
09.12
SFC
09.12
USAT
09.05
PW
09.13
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

09.08
Amz
(09.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.13)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.13)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, Industrial Magic (UK) 09.06.04 / 2               54 -2    
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 28       106 -29   x xxx..     xxx..
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus 09.13.04 / 1       89 ++            
Canavan, The High Lord 09.13.04 / 1       83 ++            
Colfer, The Supernaturalist (AUSTRALIA) 08.16.04 / 5                 3 =  
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 5 8 -1         xx        
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 41 xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. 11 -2       xxx..
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins 09.13.04 / 1       50 ++            
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 08.16.04 / 5       131 -56 x          
Lackey/Mallory, The Outstretched Shadow 09.13.04 / 1       94 ++            
MacHale, Pendragon Book Five: Blackwater [tpb] 08.09.04 / 6 4 =     xxx..   xx        
Mack, Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Time to Heal 09.13.04 / 1       130 ++            
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 43 xxx..   xxx.. 53 -21 xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Monteleone/Monteleone, From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness 09.13.04 / 1       82 ++            
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 17 26 -7   xxx.. 42 -12 6 +2 5 = 47 +8      
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 24       117 -15           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 27       129 -25   xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment 09.13.04 / 1       145 ++            
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 2               72 +    
Rice, Blood Canticle 09.13.04 / 1       58 ++            
Robb, Divided in Death 09.13.04 / 1 6 ++ 8 ++   10 ++ 7 ++          
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA) 05.24.04 / 15                 8 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 109 3 -1   xxx.. 149 -43   xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 9               xxx 4 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 11 1 =   xxx 12 -8   2 -1 xx      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 164 10 -2   xxx.. xxx..   x        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   7 -1   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..        
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 3         xxx.. 8 +7        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.19
WP
09.12
SFC
09.12
USAT
09.05
PW
09.13
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

09.08
Amz
(09.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.13)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.13)
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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