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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
23 June 2002
Anne McCaffrey's Freedom's Ransom (Ace/Putnam) is a runner-up this week on the New York Times hardcover fiction list, at #23. In Britain, the paperback of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher debuts at #2 on two lists.
This week rankings from UK trade journal The Bookseller are added, in the column formerly occupied by rankings from The Times of London. Bookseller lists compiled here are for fiction hardcover and paperback, nonfiction hardcover and paperback, and children's fiction and nonfiction. Each list is 10 items long. Every title on this week's children's fiction list is SF or fantasy. (Bookseller lists not compiled here include small publishers' charts, specialty charts, and a composite Top 40 Bestsellers that consists mostly of paperbacks.)
Also changed this week is the arrangement of the table below, with mass market and trade paperbacks being recombined into a single paperback section.
Titles still going strong: Jean Auel. Still doing well: Douglas Adams. Slipping: R.A. Salvatore's Star Wars novelization.
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Title |
NYT
6.30 |
LAT
6.23 |
SFC
6.23 |
USAT
6.20 |
WP
6.23 |
WSJ
6.21 |
Bookseller [UK] (6.24) |
PW
6.24 |
Book
Sense
6.24 |
Amz
(6.24) |
Amz UK
(6.24) |
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Items on list [x] number of lists surveyed |
30x5 |
15x4 |
10x3 |
50 |
10x4 |
10x2 |
10x6 |
15x5 |
15x6 |
25x4 |
10x4 |
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Hardcovers |
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Adams, The Salmon of Doubt |
31 -3 |
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9 + |
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xxx.. |
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3 +1 |
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x |
18 +3 |
3 = |
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Auel, The Shelters of Stone |
4 -1 |
3 -1 |
7 = |
13 = |
x |
5 -1 |
1 = |
4 -1 |
4 -1 |
7 -3 |
1 = |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl |
5 = |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident |
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1 =
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6 -1 |
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King, Everything's Eventual |
17 +1 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
14 + |
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xx |
xxx.. |
17 -6 |
xxx.. |
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McCaffrey, Freedom's Ransom |
23 ++ |
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Pratchett/Stewart, The Science of Discworld II: The Globe |
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xx (nf) |
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Reynolds, Sw: ATOC: Visual Dictionary |
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xxx |
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xx |
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x nf |
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x nf |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
1 +1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
32 +2 |
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xxx.. |
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9 + |
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Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones |
16 -6 |
xx |
xxx.. |
x |
xxx |
x |
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x |
xxx |
x |
x |
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Paperbacks |
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Allston, New Jedi Order: Rebel Stand |
23 -3 |
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44 -26 |
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15 -7 |
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18 -13 |
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Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 |
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x |
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19 + |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl |
5 = |
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6 +2 |
4 + |
5 -1 |
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Gaiman, American Gods |
xx |
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xx |
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xx |
x |
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Herbert, Once |
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10 -4 |
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10 -4 |
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King, Dreamcatcher |
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2 ++ |
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2 ++ |
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Koontz, The Door to December |
10 +11 |
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33 -4 |
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11 ++ |
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Martin, A Storm of Swords |
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x |
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Pratchett, Thief of Time |
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x |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
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7 -1 |
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xx |
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Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights] |
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5 = |
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xx |
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Pullman, The Subtle Knife |
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8 -1 |
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Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer |
xx |
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xxx |
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xxx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
2 +1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
12 -4 |
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3 +1 |
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4 +4 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Fire |
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2 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
1 +1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
11 -5 |
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4 -1 |
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2 +1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 -2 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
18 -7 |
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9 + |
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11 -1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter: Celebratory Edition |
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10 = |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm) |
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xxx.. |
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20 -4 |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (tpb) |
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xxx.. |
xxx |
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Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters |
x (nf) |
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Watson, Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice |
x |
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Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones |
4 = |
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50 -10 |
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12 +3 |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
Bookseller |
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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