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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
21 July 2002
Neil Gaiman's Coraline (HarperCollins) debuts at #6 on San Francisco Chronicle's hardcover fiction list (not a children's list), no doubt an effect of Gaiman's book launch reading of the book on July 2 in Berkeley. The book rises to #8 on New York Times's children's chapter book list, and debuts on the July PW children's list at #9.
A Philip K. Dick movie tie-in hardcover collection called Minority Report ranks #9 this week on Amazon UK's hardcover fiction list.
The new shaded column in the table, to the right of the titles, shows the debut date the title appeared on any list compiled here, and the cumulative number of weeks it has ranked on any of these lists. An 'x' after the number of weeks indicates the title doesn't rank on any of this week's lists, but hasn't yet been dropped from the chart. Note that the dates and counts are relative to this weekly page, and may not correspond to the dating of particular besteller lists.
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Title |
Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
7.28 |
LAT
7.21 |
SFC
7.21 |
USAT
7.18 |
WP
7.21 |
WSJ
7.19 |
Book
seller [UK]
(7.21) |
PW
7.22
(ch 7.01) |
Book
Sense
7.22 |
Amz
(7.21) |
Amz UK
(7.21) |
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed |
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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 |
5.19 / 10 |
xxx.. |
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xx |
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xxx.. |
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x |
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xxx.. |
xxx |
7 -3 |
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Auel, The Shelters of Stone |
5.12 / 11 |
9 = |
x |
xx |
49 -5 |
x |
12 = |
4 -1 |
12 -1 |
10 = |
10 = |
3 -1 |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident |
5.12 / 11 |
5 -1 |
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5 =
| 3 -1 |
2 +3 |
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Dick, Minority Report |
7.21 / 1 |
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9 ++ |
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Gaiman, Coraline |
7.14 / 2 |
8 +2 |
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6 ++ |
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9 ++ |
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King, Everything's Eventual |
3.31 / 16x |
x |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx |
xxx.. |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
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xx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
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xx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
7.17.00 / 106 |
1 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
38 +2 |
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xxx.. |
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-- |
9 -1 |
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Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones |
4.28 / 12x |
x |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Vanished Moon |
6.30 / 4 |
24 -6 |
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xxx |
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xx |
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xx |
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16 = |
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Paperbacks |
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Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 |
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xxx |
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21 = |
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Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter |
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x nf |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl |
5.19 / 10 |
5 -1 |
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9 = |
1 +3 |
1 +1 |
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Gaiman, American Gods |
5.12 / 7x |
xxx.. |
xx |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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King, Dreamcatcher |
6.23 / 5 |
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8 -3 |
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5 -3 |
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Koontz, The Door to December |
6.09 / 5x |
xx |
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xxx |
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xxx |
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Martin, A Storm of Swords |
6.16 / 2x |
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xxx |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
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8 = |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights] |
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7 -1 |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Subtle Knife |
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10 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
6.17.01 / 58 |
1 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
19 +2 |
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2 +1 |
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4 -1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Fire |
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1 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
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2 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
23 -4 |
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3 -1 |
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6 -2 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
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3 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xx |
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xx |
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12 = |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm) |
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xxx.. |
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20 = |
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| Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters |
5.05 / 8x |
xx (nf) |
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Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones |
5.05 / 11x |
x |
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xxx.. |
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xxx |
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NYT |
LAT |
SFC |
USAT |
WP |
WSJ |
Book
seller |
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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