SFFH on Bestseller Lists

7 July 2002

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragons of a Vanished Moon slips on the four lists it debuted on last week, but appears for the first time this week on Amazon's hardcover fiction list. Douglas Adams's The Salmon of Doubt is still selling well in the UK, and reappears this week on San Francisco Chronicle's list. Two Harry Potter hardcovers reappear on New York Times's childrens' list, presumably having outlasted more transient sellers. Neil Gaiman's American Gods paperback, having disappeared from several other lists three weeks ago, shows up this week on Los Angeles Times's paperback list, at #8. In Britain, the paperback of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher ranks #1 and #2 on the UK lists charted below. Jean Auel is still going strong.
Title	NYT 7.14	LAT 7.07	SFC 7.07	USAT 7.03	WP 7.07	WSJ 7.05	Bookseller [UK] (7.07)	PW 7.08	Book Sense 7.08	Amz (7.07)	Amz UK (7.07)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed	30x5	15x4	10x3	50	10x4	10x2	10x6	15x5	15x6	25x4	10x4
Hardcovers
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt	xx		7 +		xxx..		5 =		xxx	x	4 =
Auel, The Shelters of Stone	9 -1	xx	8 +1	26 -8	x	10 -1	2 =	12 -5	8 =	12 -3	2 =
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	6 -1						2 -1	2 ++	3 +2
King, Everything's Eventual	30 -9	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xx		xxx..	xxx..	x	xxx..
McCaffrey, Freedom's Ransom	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	7 +
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	9 +
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire	1 =	xxx..	xxx..	37 -9		xxx..		--	11 -2
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones	26 -7	xxx..	xxx..	xxx	xxx..	xxx		xxx	xxx..	xxx	xxx
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Vanished Moon	15 -5			x		15 -7		15 -5		10 ++
Paperbacks
Allston, New Jedi Order: Rebel Stand	x			xx				xx		xx
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451		x								15 +1
Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter							10 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	5 =						6 -1	4 +	2 +2
Gaiman, American Gods	xxx..	8 ++		xxx..				xxx..	xxx
Herbert, Once							xx				xx
King, Dreamcatcher							2 -1				1 =
Koontz, The Door to December	22 -9			x				x
Martin, A Storm of Swords										x
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass							7 =		xxx..
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]							5 +1		xxx..
Pullman, The Subtle Knife							9 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	1 +1	xxx..	xxx..	14 -5			3 +1		7 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Fire							1 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	2 -1	xxx..	xxx..	16 -9			4 -1		4 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	3 =	xxx..	xxx..	44 -25			10 -1		15 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter: Celebratory Edition							xx
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)				xxx..						23 -4
Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters	35 + (nf)
Watson, Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice	xxx
Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones	7 -1			xx					x
	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, The Bookseller, 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. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. Note that 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.