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The table compiles selected SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists.
See #Key below.

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SFFH on General Lists
8 September 2002


Terry Brooks's The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr (Del Rey) is this week's big debut, ranking on 5 lists, as high as #3 on two of them. Last week's debut, Orson Scott Card's Shadow Puppets, slips off one list but on to another, to still place on 6 lists.

YA author Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small: Lady Knight (Random House), fourth book in that series, also debuts impressively on 5 lists, 3 of them children's lists, one of them Wall Street Journal's general fiction list, where it places #6.

Also: Stephen King's next novel, From a Buick 8 (Scribner), is already out in the UK and ranking #7 on Bookseller's fiction list. It's due in stores in the US on September 24.

More: Paperback reprints by Brooks, King & Straub, Herbert & Anderson (whose next hardcover Dune book, The Butlerian Jihad, is in US stores Sept. 17), and Brian Jacques all debut on New York Times's lists this week, while J.D. Robb's Purity in Death, about a computer virus in 2059, debuts on 4 paperback lists, at #1 on two of them.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
9.15
LAT
9.08
SFC
9.08
USAT
9.05
WP
9.08
WSJ
9.06
Book
seller
[UK] (9.08)
PW
9.09
(ch 9.01)
Book
Sense

9.09
Amz
(9.08)
Amz UK
(9.08)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 10x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 5.12 / 18 24 -6 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx.. x. xx. 7 =
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 9.08 / 1 4 ++     15 ++   3 ++   3 ++ 11 ++    
Card, Shadow Puppets 9.01 / 2 13 -6 13 ++ 9 -4 x   10 -5   10 -5 14 -4    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 18 6 =           xxx.. 6 -2 11 -3    
Dick, Minority Report 7.21 / 8                     8 =
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 9 xxx..   x         4 -1 x    
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 1             7 ++        
Marshall, The Straw Men 9.01 / 2             8 -3       3 =
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 1 1 ++     49 ++   6 ++   5 ++ 3 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban   5 +                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 113 8 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   xx                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   xxx..                    
Tolkien, LotR Collectors' ed.                     15 +1  
Paperbacks
Brooks, The Voyage.. Antrax 9.08 / 1 27 ++                    
Colbert, Magical Worlds of Harry Potter               xx nf        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 17 9 +1           xxx 1 = 6 -2    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 9.08 / 1 29 ++                    
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 1 10 ++                    
King, Dreamcatcher 6.23 / 9x             xxx       xxx
King, On Writing   26 -6 nf                    
King/Straub, Black House 9.08 / 1 4 ++     4 ++       4 ++      
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               6 -1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]               5 +1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               8 =        
Robb, Purity in Death 9.08 / 1 1 ++     2 ++       1 ++ 3 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 6.17.01 / 65 5 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 46 -15     2 =   4 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 8.11 / 5 (us) 1 = 4 ++ xx 8 -5     1 =   1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   2 = xxx.. xxx.. 43 -11     3 =   9 -3    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   7 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     10 +   xx    
Stover, The New Jedi Order: Traitor 8.11 / 5 x xx   xx       x   10 -1  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring         x       x x    
Tolkien, The Hobbit         34 -14       x x    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)         xxx..           2 -1  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (trade)                     7 =  
Tolkien, LOTR (trade)         xxx       9 -3      
Tolkien, The Return of the King         x              
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                     12 +2  
Tolkien, The Two Towers         37 -26       15 -7 4 -2    
Watson, Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games 8.04 / 3x xxx                    
    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 and brackets indicate stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before -- and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]

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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