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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:

January

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11 January 2005


The paperback of Laurell K. Hamilton's Seduced by Moonlight debuts this week on the USA Today list, at #137.

Perhaps a result of holiday sales, the trade paperback of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife rose on several lists. It's still going strong after 34 weeks (not counting the earlier hardcover edition).

Among hardcovers, bestsellers by Philip Roth, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Susanna Clarke are still doing well. Longest is Christopher Paolini's Eragon, still selling in hardcover after 71 weeks.

J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince remains at #1 on all the Amazon lists.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.16
WP
01.09
SFC
01.09
USAT
01.02
PW
01.10
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(01.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.11)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.11)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 18 8 -1     xxx.. 6 + xxx..      
Chabon, The Final Solution 11.15.04 / 9 xxx..   4 -1     xxx..      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 24 14 +5 xxx.. xxx.. 81 +14 15 + 64 -25      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 23             11 -3   x
Crichton, State of Fear 12.13.04 / 5 2 +1 1 + 6 -5 9 -5 3 = 16 -5     33 +14
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 22 1 +1     77 +23 1 + xxx..     xxx..
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.01.02 / 22 xxx..       10 +        
Goodkind, Chainfire 12.27.04 / 3           18 +14     30 -18
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 41 35 -7 xxx.. xxx.. 149 -6 xxx.. 98 -23     xxx..
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 31 25 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 121 -37 xxx.. 101 -31     xxx..
Koontz, Life Expectancy 12.13.04 / 5 4 +4 xxx..   61 -21 12 -2 xxx..      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia 11.22.04 / 7 9 -3                
Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror 11.08.04 / 10 34 -9   xxx.. x          
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 71 2 -1     117 -36 2 + xxx..     xxx..
Pierce, Trickster's Queen 09.27.04 / 9 5 +     xxx..   xxx..      
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 17 13 -2 xxx.. 1 +1 73 -18 14 -1 27 -7     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 4           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 3             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 4                 1 =
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.16
WP
01.09
SFC
01.09
USAT
01.02
PW
01.10
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(01.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.11)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.11)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brennan, Faerie Wars [tpb] 09.27.04 / 6 10 +       8 +        
Crichton, State of Fear (AUSTRALIA) [tpb] 12.13.04 / 5               5 -1  
Hamilton, Seduced by Moonlight 01.09.05 / 1       137 ++          
Koontz, Odd Thomas 11.08.04 / 10 34 -22     87 -34 x       xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 60 xxx..   xxx.. 50 -6 12 + xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 34 15 = xxx.. x 31 +10 6 +4 45 +4     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 2             10 +20    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.09.05 / 1               2 ++  
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 4: Sister of the South (AUSTRALIA) 10.18.04 / 13               6 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 115 xxx..   xxx.. 106 +24          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 18             xxx.. 5 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 28 xxx..   xxx.. 33 = xxx.. xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.16
WP
01.09
SFC
01.09
USAT
01.02
PW
01.10
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(01.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.11)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.11)
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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