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2005 Monitor Archive


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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:

April
   
SFFH on General Lists
26 April 2005

Laurell K. Hamilton's latest, A Stroke of Midnight (Ballantine), debuts at #5 or #6 on four print lists this week.

A YA novel by bestselling thriller writer James Patterson, Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment (Little, Brown), debuts on two lists, ranking #1 on this week's New York Times children's chapter books list.

Various editions of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (not all of the UK and Canadian editions charted here) rank this week, in anticipation of the film adaptation opening next Friday.

J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince continues to ranks #1 on all 3 Amazon lists again this week.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.01
WP
04.24
SFC
04.24
USAT
04.17
PW
04.25
(ch 04.18)
Amz
(04.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(04.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.26)
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 / 33 8 -3     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.06.05 / 9 5 -2       x        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception 04.10.05 / 3       14 +3 x 33 +6     x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (UK) 04.10.05 / 3             20 +9    
Feist, Exile's Return 04.10.05 / 3 33 -2                
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 37 3 -1     xxx.. x xxx..     xxx..
Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight 04.03.05 / 4 6 ++ 5 ++   6 ++ 5 ++ x     61 +
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 04.10.05 / 3 19 -1   4 +1 147 -32   45 -4     22 +7
Luceno, Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil 02.06.05 / 12 32 -4     xxx.. xxx..        
Luceno, The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 04.03.05 / 4       43 -20 13 -6 xxx      
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 9           34 +14     29 +
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 86 6 +2     xxx x xxx..     xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 04.24.05 / 1 1 ++     22 ++          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 19           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 18             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 19                 1 =
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk 04.03.05 / 4 2 -1     xxx x        
Stover, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 03.20.05 / 6 3 = 4 -3 x 9 -7 3 -2 52 +4     x
Weber/Ringo, We Few 04.10.05 / 3 31 -6                
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.01
WP
04.24
SFC
04.24
USAT
04.17
PW
04.25
(ch 04.18)
Amz
(04.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(04.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.26)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 04.10.05 / 3 25 +10     25 +51 5 ++ 32 +18      
Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [tpb] 03.20.05 / 4       45 +33 12 ++ 63 +     xxx..
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 21 6 +3                
DuPrau, The People of Sparks 04.24.05 / 1 7 ++                
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli [tpb] 02.06.05 / 12     6 -3            
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah [tpb] 04.17.05 / 2 33 -7     78 -42          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 75 xxx..   xxx.. 127 +19 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.13.05 / 11             8 +23    
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 49 28 +2 xxx xxx 63 = 11 = 49 +16     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 17             17 -10    
Nix, Sabriel (UK) 06.08.03 / 16             64 -11    
Rinzler, The Art of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb] 04.10.05 / 3 22 -18     x x        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 43 xxx..   xxx.. 120 +4 xxx.. xxx..      
Wrede, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb] 04.17.05 / 2       24 -6          
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 12 xxx..   3 +2 xx          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.01
WP
04.24
SFC
04.24
USAT
04.17
PW
04.25
(ch 04.18)
Amz
(04.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(04.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.26)
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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