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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
9 June 2002
Four books debut on lists this week, all paperbacks. Two are new Star Wars ties: Aaron Allston's The New Jedi Order: Rebel Stand (Del Rey), impressively ranking on four lists; and Jude Watson's YA Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice (Scholastic), on NYT's children's paperback list.
The other two are reprints: Dean Koontz's revised 1985 novel The Door to December (Signet), appearing low on the NYT and USA Today lists; and the trade paperback edition of George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords (Bantam Spectra), ranking at #20 this week on Amazon's paperback list.
This belated vacation-edition of Locus Online Bestsellers missed the past week's updates for Wall Street Journal and BookSense, while the two Amazon rankings were compiled on June 14. The London Times rankings are being dropped, since their lists are no longer accessible to non-subscribers. We'll replace that column with one or more other lists from other UK, Canadian, or Australian sources, which are being monitored to see which are reliably updated and available online. (Recommendations welcome.)
Still going strong: Jean Auel; R.A. Salvatore; Douglas Adams; Stephen King; and Harry Potter books (one hardcover returns to the NYT list after several weeks off). Slipped but still ranked: Neil Gaiman (in paperback). About to slip off lists: Joyce Reardon (in paperback).
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Title |
NYT
6.16 |
LAT
6.09 |
SFC
6.09 |
USAT
6.06 |
WP
6.09 |
WSJ
5.31 |
London
Times |
PW
6.10 |
Book
Sense
6.03 |
Amz
(6.14) |
Amz UK
(6.14) |
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Items compiled from each list |
30 |
15 |
15 |
50 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 hc, 5 pb |
25 |
10 |
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Hardcovers |
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Adams, The Salmon of Doubt |
23 -2 |
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7 +3 |
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xx |
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-- |
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x |
21 -1 |
3 +1 |
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Auel, The Shelters of Stone |
2 -1 |
3 -1 |
6 -3 |
7 -5 |
2 +2 |
1 +1 |
-- |
2 -1 |
2 -1 |
4 = |
1 = |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident |
5 -2 |
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2 ++ |
2 = |
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King, Everything's Eventual |
14 = |
xxx |
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xx |
xxx.. |
13 -1 |
-- |
14 -2 |
xxx |
11 +1 |
xxx |
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Pratchett/Stewart, The Science of Discworld II: The Globe |
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-- |
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x (nf) |
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Reynolds, Sw: ATOC: Visual Dictionary |
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x |
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12 +1 |
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8 +2 nf |
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8 -4 nf |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
9 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
2 -1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
46 +17 |
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xxx.. |
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-- |
x |
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Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones |
5 -1 |
10 -5 |
xxx.. |
24 -14 |
x |
5 -1 |
-- |
6 -2 |
x |
20 -12 |
4 -1 |
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Vax, The Art of Star Wars Episode 2... |
x (nf) |
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Trade Paperbacks |
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Martin, A Storm of Swords |
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20 ++ |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
2 -1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
10 +3 |
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x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
1 +3 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
8 +11 |
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-- |
8 -2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
15 +10 |
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-- |
7 +6 |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR |
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xxx.. |
xx |
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Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters |
19 -5 (nf) |
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Mass Market Paperbacks |
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Allston, New Jedi Order: Rebel Stand |
13 ++ |
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12 ++ |
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5 ++ |
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5 ++ |
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Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 |
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xx |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl |
5 = |
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4 + |
3 +4 |
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Gaiman, American Gods |
28 -13 |
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37 -9 |
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14 -6 |
4 -1 |
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Herbert, Once |
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6 = |
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Koontz, The Door to December |
20 ++ |
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36 ++ |
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Pratchett, Thief of Time |
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-- |
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10 -3 |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
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15 + |
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Pullman, The Golden Compass |
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14 + |
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Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer |
35 -16 |
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x |
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x |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR |
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xxx.. |
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16 +5 |
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Watson, Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice |
9 ++ |
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Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones |
4 -2 |
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26 -6 |
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10 -6 |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
London |
PW |
Book
Sense |
Amz |
Amz UK |
| This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists |
Italics indicates stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before |
The table compiles SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists. The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week are shown, 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, London Times, 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.
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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