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9.22
9.15
9.08
9.01
8.25
8.18
8.11
8.04
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7.07
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1.06.02
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1.07.01
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1.04.00

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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
29 September 2002


Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (Tor) debuts on five lists, including top ten rankings at The New York Times and Publishers Weekly.

Michael Chabon's Summerland returns to San Francisco's list, and debuts at New York Times and BookSense -- though relegated to both of their children's lists. This week marks the disappearance of the hardcover edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from NYT's children's chapter book list, after placing there for the past 115 weeks; the trade paperback edition has ranked #1 on the children's paperback list since its release 7 weeks ago. In the UK, Garth Nix's Sabriel ranks #6 on Bookseller's children's fiction chart.

At Amazon UK the bestseller lists have been reformatted to encourage purchases of titles at 50% off list prices, with the lists expanded but the ranks themselves omitted. Apparent rankings are indicated below, though positions past the traditional 10 on each list are indicated only in parentheses. Notable titles include Clive Barker's Abarat, debuting (it would seem) at #3, and Raymond Feist's Talon of the Silver Hawk debuting at #1.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.06
LAT
9.29
SFC
9.29
USAT
9.26
WP
9.29
WSJ
(9.29)
Book
seller
[UK] (9.30)
PW
9.30
(ch 9.01)
Book
Sense

9.30
Amz
(9.29)
Amz UK
(9.29)
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 / 21 34 -4 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 9 +
Banks, Dead Air 9.15 / 3             7 -1       6 =
Barker, Abarat 9.29 / 1                     3 ++
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 9.08 / 4 13 -7 13 -8   x   4 = xx 10 -6 x 9 -3 (15 -8)
Card, Shadow Puppets 9.01 / 5 28 -13 14 -1 x xxx..   xxx   x xx 12 -5  
Chabon, Summerland 9.15 / 2 1 ++   2 +           3 ++    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 21 9 -1           xxx.. [6 -2] xxx    
Dick, Minority Report 7.21 / 8x                     (20)
Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk 9.22 / 2             x       1 ++
Funke, The Thief Lord 9.01 / 5 7 -3               5 +1    
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 11x xxx..   x         [4 -1] xxx..    
Haydon, Requiem for the Sun 9.29 / 1                   16 ++  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: Butlerian Jihad 9.29 / 1 9 ++   6 ++ 29 ++       7 ++ 15 ++    
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 4             6 -1       8 -4
Marshall, The Straw Men 9.01 / 4             xxx       2 +
Nix, Sabriel 9.29 / 1             6 ++        
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 4 x     xxx   xxx   [5 ++] 11 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban   xxx                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 115x x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   xx                    
Tolkien, LotR Collectors' ed.                     xx  
Paperbacks
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting 9.29 / 1 10 ++                    
Brooks, The Voyage.. Antrax 9.08 / 4 33 -2                    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 20 xxx           xxx.. [1 =] 7 +3    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 9.08 / 4 28 +1             xx xx    
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 4 x               12 +2    
King, On Writing   xx nf                    
King/Straub, Black House 9.08 / 4 5 -3     7 -4     1 = 4 -1 x   1 +1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               7 +1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]               8 -1   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               x        
Robb, Purity in Death 9.08 / 4 2 +1 xx   10 -3       5 -1 xxx 3 +4  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 6.17.01 / 68 3 = xxx.. xxx.. 39 -4     4 =   9 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 8.11 / 8 (us) 1 = xxx xxx.. 9 +1     1 +1   1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets   2 = xxx.. xxx.. 37 -1     2 +1   8 -3    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone   8 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xx     5 =   x    
Stover, The New Jedi Order: Traitor 8.11 / 7x xxx.. xxx..   xxx..       xxx..   x  
Tolkien, The Hobbit         x       xxx.. 6 +2    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)         xxx..           4 -1  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (trade)                     xx  
Tolkien, LOTR (trade)         xxx..       xxx      
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                     17 -6  
Tolkien, The Two Towers         38 -12       xxx 8 +2    
    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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