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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
14 July 2002
Neil Gaiman's Coraline (HarperCollins) debuts at #10 on New York Times's children's chapter book list this week. BookSense notes that it's a title "on the rise," ranking #22 on its children's fiction list.
The major news this week is the debut of the latest "Left Behind" novel, LeHaye & Jenkins's The Remnant, placing #1 on four lists (NYT, USAT, PW, and WSJ); however, while mentioning such occurrences, this page does not necessarily chart every book that might have some SFnal or fantastic element construable. The "Left Behind" books are one example; Tom Clancy near-future techno-thrillers are another; so is Kay Hooper's psychic mystery Whisper of Evil (Bantam; it's filled "with unwieldy discussions of psychic powers, energy fields and electric brain impulses" according to PW's review), currently ranking respectably on the NYT, USAT, and PW lists .
The same is true for occasional SF "classics", perhaps bought by students for summer reading, that pop up on Amazon's paperback bestsellers list; George Orwell's 1984, for example, ranks this week at #25.
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NYT
7.21 |
LAT
7.14 |
SFC
7.14 |
USAT
7.11 |
WP
7.14 |
WSJ
7.12 |
Bookseller [UK]
(7.15) |
PW
7.15 |
Book
Sense
7.15 |
Amz
(7.14) |
Amz UK
(7.14) |
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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 |
xxx |
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x |
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xxx.. |
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10 -5 |
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xxx.. |
xx |
4 = |
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Auel, The Shelters of Stone |
9 = |
7 + |
x |
44 -18 |
9 + |
12 -2 |
3 -1 |
11 +1 |
10 -2 |
10 +2 |
2 = |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident |
4 +2 |
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5 -3
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5 -2 |
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Gaiman, Coraline |
10 ++ |
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King, Everything's Eventual |
29 +1 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xx |
xxx.. |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
1 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
40 -3 |
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xxx.. |
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-- |
8 +3 |
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Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones |
35 -9 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Vanished Moon |
18 -3 |
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xx |
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x |
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x |
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16 -6 |
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Paperbacks |
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Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 |
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xx |
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21 -6 |
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Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter |
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10 = nf |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl |
4 +1 |
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9 -3 |
4 + |
2 = |
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Gaiman, American Gods |
xxx.. |
x |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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King, Dreamcatcher |
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5 -3 |
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2 -1 |
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Koontz, The Door to December |
x |
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xx |
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xx |
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Martin, A Storm of Swords |
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xx |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
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8 -1 |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights] |
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6 -1 |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Subtle Knife |
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10 -1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
1 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
21 -7 |
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3 = |
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3 +4 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Fire |
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1 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
19 -3 |
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2 +2 |
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4 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
3 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
x |
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x |
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12 +3 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter: Celebratory Edition |
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xxx |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm) |
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xxx.. |
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20 +3 |
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| Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters |
x (nf) |
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Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones |
8 -1 |
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xxx |
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xx |
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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 |
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)
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. 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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