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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:

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12 July 2004


The first volume of Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's "Edge Chronicles", Beyond the Deepwoods, debuts at #10 on New York Times's children's chapter book list this week, and rose to #2 on BookSense's children's list. The series was published beginning in 1998 in Britain; this volume and the second volume, Stormchaser, have just been released in the US by Random House/David Fickling Books.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.18
SFC
07.11
WP
07.11
USAT
07.04
PW
07.12
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

07.09
Amz
(07.15)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 50x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Bakker, The Warrior-Prophet (CANADA) 06.28.04 / 3                   33 -20
Colfer, The Supernaturalist 05.10.04 / 10 9 -1         xxx..        
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.03.04 / 11 11 -2 3 = xx 82 -19 12 -3 5 -1 24 +21     xxx..
Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon 07.12.04 / 1                   40 ++
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 15 7 -3 x 8 + 21 -10 6 -1 8 -2 27 -14     28 -12
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (UK) 06.21.04 / 4               50 -18    
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 5             52 +39     xxx
Koontz, The Taking 05.24.04 / 8 16 -1   xxx x 15 -2   xxx..      
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 13             xxx..     38 +39
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 45 2 =     78 -20 xxx.. 4 -1 xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 9               7 -3 x xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 74 1 = xxx..   74 -21 xxx.. 11 -1 xxx      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 53               28 -5 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 36                   16 +5
Stewart/Riddell, Beyond the Deepwoods 07.05.04 / 2 10 ++         2 +7        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.18
SFC
07.11
WP
07.11
USAT
07.04
PW
07.12
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

07.09
Amz
(07.15)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Asimov, I, Robot 06.21.04 / 4       66 -6   10 ++        
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 05.03.04 / 9                   9 +51
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 19       70 -24   7 = 68 -15     xxx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 04.05.04 / 10               38 +    
Erikson, Midnight Tides (UK) [tpb] 07.12.04 / 1                   12 ++
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 34 xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. 12 -5       xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.14.04 / 5 x     93 -23 x         x
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 34 xxx.. xxx..   39 -5     xxx     x
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 8 17 = 10 -1   31 -7 7 -2 5 +3 20 +4      
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 2: Grim Tuesday (UK) 06.07.04 / 6               39 -5    
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 15       115 +2           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 18       84 -6   x 86 +13     xx
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.03.04 / 10               3 -1 xx  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)             xxx..   27 +1    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   18 +1    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 23 +6    
Reaves/Perry, Star Wars: Medstar 1: Battle Surgeons 07.12.04 / 1       107 ++            
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA) 05.24.04 / 8                 3 -2  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                 30 -3 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xx xxx..   xxx   14 +        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 4 +1 8 -3  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 100 2 -1 xxx..   80 -24   1 +1        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 2             84 +1      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                 26 -8 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 14 -7 x  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 155 6 = xxx..   106 -33   6 +2        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   7 +1 xxx..   xx   xx        
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Lone Drow 06.14.04 / 5       134 -45           x
Taylor, Shadowmancer (UK) 05.03.04 / 5               9 +15    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.18
SFC
07.11
WP
07.11
USAT
07.04
PW
07.12
(ch 05.01)
Book
Sense

07.09
Amz
(07.15)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
07.03
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.15)
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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