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9.01 Bestsellers

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8.25
8.18
8.11
8.04
7.28
7.21
7.14
7.07
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6.02
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1.06.02
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1.07.01
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1.04.00

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The table compiles selected SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists.
See #Key below.

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SFFH on General Lists
1 September 2002


Orson Scott Card's Shadow Puppets (Tor) debuts strongly on six lists, as high as 5th position on three of them.

In the UK The Straw Men by Michael Marshall (aka Michael Marshall Smith) has ranked on lists for three weeks now; it doesn't sound like genre fantasy or horror, but it's close enough for Ed Bryant to have turned in a review of the book for Locus's October issue (he calls it "slipstream SF"); so it's now included in the table below. The book is out in the US, in paperback, from Jove.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
9.08
LAT
9.01
SFC
9.01
USAT
8.29
WP
9.01
WSJ
8.30
Book
seller
[UK] (9.03)
PW
9.02
(ch 8.01)
Book
Sense

9.02
Amz
(9.03)
Amz UK
(9.03)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 10x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 5.12 / 17 18 -1 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx x xxx x xx 7 -1
Card, Shadow Puppets 9.01 / 1 7 ++   5 ++ 38 ++   5 ++   5 ++ 10 ++    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 17 6 +1           xxx [4 -1] 8 -1    
Dick, Minority Report 7.21 / 7                     8 -1
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 8 xxx..   9 -1         [3 +6] 14 +    
Marshall, The Straw Men               5 -2       3
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban   x                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 112 5 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   x                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   xxx                    
Tolkien, LotR Collectors' ed.                     16 +  
Paperbacks
Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter               x nf        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 16 10 -3           xx [1 =] 4 +2    
King, Dreamcatcher 6.23 / 9x             xx       xx
King, On Writing   20 -5 nf                    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               5 +3   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]               6 -1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               8 +1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 6.17.01 / 64 3 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 31 -7     2 =   5 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 8.11 / 4 (us) 1 =   x 3 =     1 =   1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   2 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 32 -5     3 =   6 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   6 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..   x    
Stover, The New Jedi Order: Traitor 8.11 / 4 24 -8 x   x       15 =   9 -1  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring         28 -13       12 -1 7 +    
Tolkien, The Hobbit         20 -4       11 -2 6 +4    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)         xxx..           1 =  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (trade)                     7 -2  
Tolkien, LOTR (trade)         x       6 +3      
Tolkien, The Return of the King         36 -11              
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                     14 -2  
Tolkien, The Two Towers         11 -3       8 -2 2 =    
Watson, Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games 8.04 / 3x xx                    
    NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Book
seller
PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists [Italics and brackets 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)

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). 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. 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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