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SFFH on General Lists
13 October 2002
Five genre hardcovers debut on US lists this week. The strongest is David Weber's War of Honor (Baen), appearing on five lists, with top ten rankings at New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly. Walter Jon Williams's Star Wars novel, Destiny's Way (Del Rey), shows up on three lists, ranking higher than Weber on all three; but it didn't make two other lists that Weber did. And Mercedes Lackey's Exile's Honor (DAW) is on two lists.
Two other hardcover debuts are children's/YA novels: Brian Jacques's latest Redwall installment, Triss (Philomel), is #1 on the children's lists of NYT and PW, and #48 on the combined USA Today list. And Clive Barker's Abarat (HarperCollins/Joanna Cotler) debuts at #7 on NYT's children's list (though its UK edition has been on the Amazon list for a couple weeks already). Michael Chabon's Summerland, meanwhile, already selling on some lists, debuts at #1 on PW's October children's fiction list, and it cracks this week's general fiction list at Washington Post at #8.
And among paperbacks, a new edition of Dean Koontz's 1986 novel Strangers (Berkley) debuts on two lists.
Amazon UK's lists do not appear to have been updated this week; all rankings are the same as those posted last week.
(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
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Title |
Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
10.20 |
LAT
10.13 |
SFC
10.13 |
USAT
10.10 |
WP
10.13 |
WSJ
(10.13) |
Book
seller [UK]
(10.11) |
PW
10.14
(ch 10.01) |
Book
Sense
10.14 |
Amz
(10.11) |
Amz UK
(10.13) |
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed |
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30x5 |
15x4 |
10x3 |
50 |
10x4 |
10x2 |
10x6 |
15x5 |
15x6 |
25x4 |
10x4 |
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Hardcovers |
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Auel, The Shelters of Stone |
5.12 / 23 |
x |
xxx |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
11 = |
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Banks, Dead Air |
9.15 / 5 |
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x |
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7 = |
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Barker, Abarat |
9.29 / 3 |
7 ++ |
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3 = |
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Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr |
9.08 / 6 |
24 -10 |
xx |
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xxx |
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xx |
xxx.. |
x |
xxx |
12 -1 |
(17 =) |
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Card, Shadow Puppets |
9.01 / 7 |
xx |
xx |
xxx |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx |
xxx.. |
16 -2 |
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Chabon, Summerland |
9.15 / 4 |
3 -2 |
8 +7 |
3 -1 |
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8 ++ |
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1 ++ |
4 -1 |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident |
5.12 / 23 |
x |
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xxx..
| 9 -3 |
xxx.. |
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Dick, Minority Report |
7.21 / 8x |
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(20=) |
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Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk |
9.22 / 4 |
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xxx |
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1 = |
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Funke, The Thief Lord |
9.01 / 7 |
4 -1 |
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7 ++ |
6 -1 |
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Gaiman, Coraline |
7.14 / 13 |
xxx.. |
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xxx |
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x |
xxx.. |
20 -1 |
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Haydon, Requiem for the Sun |
9.29 / 1x |
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xx |
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Herbert/Anderson, Dune: Butlerian Jihad |
9.29 / 3 |
12 -5 |
4 +7 |
x |
x |
x |
7 = |
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9 -2 |
x |
5 -2 |
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Jacques, Triss |
10.13 / 1 |
1 ++ |
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48 ++ |
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1 ++ |
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King, From a Buick 8 |
9.08 / 6 |
2 -1 |
3 +10 |
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7 -6 |
5 ++ |
1 = |
x |
2 -1 |
4 -1 |
2 ++ |
10 = |
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Lackey, Exile's Honor |
10.13 / 1 |
27 ++ |
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10 ++ |
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Marshall, The Straw Men |
9.01 / 6 |
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xxx.. |
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2 = |
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Nix, Sabriel |
9.29 / 3 |
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9 -3 |
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Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight |
9.08 / 5 |
xxx |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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6 -1 |
xx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
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10 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
7.17.00 / 116x |
x |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
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xxx |
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Tolkien, LotR Collectors' ed. |
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xxx |
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Weber, War of Honor |
10.13 / 1 |
8 ++ |
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6 ++ |
26 ++ |
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7 ++ |
15 ++ |
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Williams, Star Wars.. Destiny's Way |
10.13 / 1 |
7 ++ |
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20 ++ |
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6 ++ |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
Book
seller |
PW |
Book
Sense |
Amz |
Amz UK |
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Paperbacks |
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Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting |
9.29 / 3 |
3 +2 |
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27 +5 |
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10 ++ |
7 +5 |
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Brooks, The Voyage.. Antrax |
9.08 / 4x |
xx |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl |
5.19 / 21 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
8 -7 |
x |
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Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains |
10.06 / 2 |
35 ++ |
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x |
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14 ++ |
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x |
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Herbert/Anderson, Dune: House Corrino |
9.08 / 5x |
x |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Jacques, Taggerung |
9.08 / 5 |
xxx |
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3 ++ |
xx |
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King/Straub, Black House |
9.08 / 6 |
15 -11 |
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28 -20 |
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4 -2 |
12 -7 (mm) |
xxx |
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1 = |
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Koontz, Strangers |
10.13 / 1 |
20 ++ |
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36 ++ |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
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10 -1 |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights] |
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7 = |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Subtle Knife |
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xxx |
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Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy (mm) |
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22 -6 |
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Robb, Purity in Death |
9.08 / 6 |
29 -19 |
xxx.. |
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x |
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x |
xxx.. |
9 -1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
6.17.01 / 70 |
5 -3 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
49 -14 |
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3 = |
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13 -3 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
8.11 / 10 (us) |
1 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
25 -14 |
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2 -1 |
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3 -2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
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4 -1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
50 -9 |
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1 +1 |
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14 -7 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
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6 +3 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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6 -1 |
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xxx |
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Tolkien, The Hobbit |
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xxx |
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xxx.. |
xx |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm) |
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xxx.. |
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x |
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Tolkien, The Silmarillion |
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21 +4 |
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Tolkien, The Two Towers |
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xx |
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xxx.. |
x |
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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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