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Bestsellers 18 Oct
Stephen King
Philip Roth
Susanna Clarke

Bestsellers 11 Oct
Laurell K. Hamilton
Stephen King
Philip Roth



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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:

October

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25 October 2004


Stephen R. Donaldson's The Runes of the Earth (Putnam) debuts on 2 lists this week, ranking #21 New York Times and #149 at USA Today.

Also debuting at NYT are Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory's To Light a Candle (Tor), at #27, and R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms: The Two Swords (Wizards of the Coast), at #19.

David Weber's The Shadow of Saganami (Baen) ranks on the US and Canadian Amazon lists this week.

Books by Susanna Clarke, Stephen King, and Philip Roth continue to rank on multiple lists each, often in the top 10.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.31
WP
10.24
SFC
10.24
USAT
10.17
PW
10.25
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

(10.26)
Amz
(10.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.26)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 15x6 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Banks, The Algebraist (UK) 09.06.04 / 7               28 +1    
Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War 09.27.04 / 5 8 =     xxx   xxx..        
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 7 6 -3     xx x 11 -2 xxx..      
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil 08.23.04 / 10 30 -3 xxx..   xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 13 11 -1 10 = 3 = 59 -18 11 -3 3 +1 26 -4      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 12               3 +8   8 +1
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 5: The Wrath of Mulgarath 09.20.04 / 6 xxx     129 -34 x 7 -2        
Donaldson, The Runes of the Earth 10.18.04 / 2 21 ++     149 ++     x      
Donaldson, The Runes of the Earth (UK) 10.18.04 / 2               32 +67    
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 11 1 =     94 -5 x 3 = xxx..     xxx..
Funke, The Dragon Rider (AUS) 10.18.04 / 2                 10 -3  
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams 08.30.04 / 9 10 -4 xx xx 48 -26 9 -5 xxx 91 -8     xx
Jacques, Rakkety Tam 09.06.04 / 7 xxx     xxx x 12 -1 xxx..      
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 52 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 89 +     xxx..
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 30 18 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 105 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 45 +29     x
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 20 2 -1 5 -1 8 = 17 -5 4 -3 8 -1 16 +8     x
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (UK) 07.26.04 / 11               53 -4 xxx..  
Lackey/Mallory, To Light a Candle 10.25.04 / 1 27 ++                  
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 60 4 +1     141 +3 x x xxx..     xxx..
Pierce, Trickster's Queen 09.27.04 / 5 2 =     124 +   8 -2 xxx..      
Pierce, Trickster's Queen (AUSTRALIA) 09.06.04 / 8                 9 -1  
Pratchett, Going Postal 09.27.04 / 4 29 -7     xx     xxx..      
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 08.16.04 / 11               9 -4 10 -5 x
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 6 4 -2 3 -2 1 = 18 -3 3 -1 2 -1 5 -1     23 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 81 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 98 +      
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Two Swords 10.11.04 / 3 19 ++           48 -38     x
Stephenson, The System of the World 04.19.04 / 8 28 -9 xxx x x xxx x 99 -32     xx
Stroud, The Golem's Eye 08.30.04 / 9 10 -4     xxx..   14 +1 xx      
Weber, The Shadow of Saganami 10.25.04 / 1             37 ++     19 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.31
WP
10.24
SFC
10.24
USAT
10.17
PW
10.25
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

(10.26)
Amz
(10.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.26)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Akamatsu, Negima! 3 [tpb] 10.25.04 / 1       117 ++            
Barker, Abarat 10.04.04 / 4 8 =                  
Eddings/Eddings, The Elder Gods 10.11.04 / 3       133 -12            
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 46 7 =     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..       xxx..
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams (UK) 10.11.04 / 3               89 -17    
Maguire, Mirror Mirror [tpb] 10.11.04 / 3       104 -5            
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 49 xxx..   xxx.. 50 +3 xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (CANADA) [tpb] 08.23.04 / 7                   20 +38
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 23 28 -1   xxx.. 58 +3 10 -3 5 +2 56 +40      
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK) 10.04.04 / 4               xx 4 -1  
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 4: Sister of the South (AUSTRALIA) 10.18.04 / 2                 1 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 15               xxx.. 7 +2  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 5                   44 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 17 xxx   xxx.. 61 +1 x 5 +3 xxx..      
Straub, lost boy lost girl 10.11.04 / 3 31 ++     100 +10            
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 9 10 =       xxx.. xxx..        
Stroud, The Golem's Eye (UK) 10.18.04 / 2                 6 =  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.31
WP
10.24
SFC
10.24
USAT
10.17
PW
10.25
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

(10.26)
Amz
(10.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.26)
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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