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Bestsellers 1 Nov
R.A. Salvatore
Philip Roth
Susanna Clarke

Bestsellers 25 Oct
Stephen R. Donaldson
Lackey & Mallory
R.A. Salvatore
David Weber



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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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8 November 2004


After ranking on 2 Amazon lists a couple weeks ago, David Weber's The Shadow of Saganami (Baen) debuts on 3 published lists this week.

Other debuts this week: T.A. Barron's The Great Tree of Avalon on NYT's children's list; a new Philip Pullman YA book, The Scarecrow and His Servant, on Amazon's UK list; Sherman & Cragg's Star Wars: Jedi Trial and Peter Straub's In the Night Room, both among NYT fiction hardcover runners-up; the paperback reprint of Dean Koontz' Odd Thomas, on 4 lists; and paperback originals by Kelley Armstrong, Trudi Canavan, and Karen Traviss, on various lists.

Also noted is Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Morrow), which has been on lists for two or three weeks but not compiled until now. It's on 3 lists this week.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.14
WP
11.07
SFC
11.07
USAT
10.31
PW
11.08
(ch 10.01)
Amz
(11.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.09)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.09)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Banks, The Algebraist (UK) 09.06.04 / 9             58 -20    
Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War 09.27.04 / 7 6 +3     xxx..          
Barron, The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy 11.08.04 / 1 7 ++                
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 9 4 +1     xxx.. xxx xxx..      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 15 14 -1 xx 2 = 92 -21 14 -2 35 -11      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 14             18 -7   22 -8
Donaldson, The Runes of the Earth 10.18.04 / 4 21 -3     104 -15 x xxx      
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 13 1 +1     143 -33 xxx xxx..     xxx..
Funke, The Dragon Rider (AUS) 10.18.04 / 4               8 -1  
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams 08.30.04 / 11 20 -5 xxx.. xxx.. 129 -50 x xx     xxx..
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 32 24 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 134 -11 xxx.. 76 -19     21 +
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 22 10 -7 xx xx 36 -12 8 -2 39 -14     12 +7
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (UK) 07.26.04 / 13             63 +21 xxx..  
Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror 11.08.04 / 1 30 ++   6 ++ 124 ++          
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 62 3 =     x xxx xxx..     xxx..
Pierce, Trickster's Queen 09.27.04 / 7 5 -1     x   xxx..      
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 08.16.04 / 13             16 +1 xx xxx
Pullman, The Scarecrow and His Servant (UK) 11.08.04 / 1             31 ++    
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 8 6 = 5 -1 1 = 27 -1 3 +1 10 -6     xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 82 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 97 +      
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Two Swords 10.11.04 / 5 9 -5 x   28 -18 6 -4 x     39 -21
Sherman & Cragg, Star Wars: Jedi Trial 11.08.04 / 1 27 ++                
Stephenson, The System of the World 04.19.04 / 10 x xxx.. 10 = xxx xxx.. x     xxx..
Stephenson, The System of the World (UK) 10.04.04 / 4             xxx   41 +10
Straub, In the Night Room 11.08.04 / 1 31 ++                
Stroud, The Golem's Eye 08.30.04 / 11 8 -2     xxx..   xxx..      
Weber, The Shadow of Saganami 10.25.04 / 2 15 ++     77 ++ 16 ++ xx     xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.14
WP
11.07
SFC
11.07
USAT
10.31
PW
11.08
(ch 10.01)
Amz
(11.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.09)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.09)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, Industrial Magic 11.08.04 / 1       90 ++          
Barker, Abarat 10.04.04 / 5 9 +                
Canavan, The High Lord (UK) 11.08.04 / 1             79 ++    
Clamp, Tsubasa: Volume 3 [tpb] 11.08.04 / 1       147 ++          
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 48 7 -1     xxx.. xxx..       xxx..
Koontz, Odd Thomas 11.08.04 / 1 6 ++     7 ++ 7 ++       46 ++
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 51 xxx..   xxx.. 49 -5 xxx.. x     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 25 27 =   9 = 60 -6 7 +2 67 -20      
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 4: Sister of the South (AUSTRALIA) 10.18.04 / 4               1 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 16             xxx.. 10 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 19 xxx..   xxx.. 75 -10 xxx xxx..      
Straub, lost boy lost girl 10.11.04 / 5 x     144 -41          
Stroud, The Golem's Eye (UK) 10.18.04 / 4               7 +2  
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact 11.08.04 / 1       109 ++          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.14
WP
11.07
SFC
11.07
USAT
10.31
PW
11.08
(ch 10.01)
Amz
(11.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.09)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.09)
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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