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Bestsellers Archive
11.03
10.27
10.20
10.13
10.06
9.29
9.22
9.15
9.08
9.01
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7.07
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1.06.02
...
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.

from LOCUS Magazine

Bestseller lists compiled from sales at specialty stores:

November

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NYT
USA Today
PW
BookSense
Amazon

SFFH on General Lists
10 November 2002


The major debut this week is Anne Rice's latest Vampire Chronicles novel, Blackwood Farm (Knopf), debuting on 7 lists, ranking as high as #3 on two of them. The paperback reprint of Rice's Blood & Gold (Ballantine) also debut this week, on 3 lists.

Another paperback reprint debut is Dean Koontz's One Door Away from Heaven (Bantam), on 3 lists.

The four Harry Potter hardcovers that placed last week on the New York Times all fell off this week, perhaps pushed aside by the new Lemony Snicket novel and its predecessors. Los Angeles Times posted its irregular children's list this week, with entries for Gaiman, Jacques, Babbit, and one Rowling, while Barker's Abarat made a belated debut on LAT's regular fiction hardcover list.

The Amazon and Amazon UK lists have not been updated since last week.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.17
LAT
11.10
SFC
11.10
USAT
11.07
WP
11.10
WSJ
(11.09)
Book
seller

(11.09)
PW
11.11
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

11.11
Amz
(11.05)
Amz UK
(11.05)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 30x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 5.12 / 26x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   [ 7 ]
Banks, Dead Air 9.15 / 6x             xxx..        
Barker, Abarat 9.29 / 7 xx 9 ++               [ 25 ] [ 2 ]
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 9.08 / 9x xx xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. [ 23 ] [ 16 ]
Card, Shadow Puppets 9.01 / 8x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx..    
Chabon, Summerland 9.15 / 8 8 = xxx.. x   x     [ 1 ] 11 -7    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 23x xxx..           xxx.. [ 9 ] xxx..    
Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk 9.22 / 7x             xxx..       [ 1 ]
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion 11.03 / 1x                   [ 19 ]  
Funke, The Thief Lord 9.01 / 11 9 -7             [ 7 ] 6 +1    
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 16 xxx.. 3 ++ xxx..         [ ] xxx..    
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 9.29 / 5x x x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx   xxx xxx.. [ 17 ]  
Hobb, The Golden Fool 10.27 / 1x                      
Jacques, Triss 10.13 / 5 6 -1 6 ++   xxx         5 =    
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 10 14 -7 xx   39 -15 xxx.. x x 14 -7 xxx [ 7 ] [ 6 ]
Lackey, Exile's Honor 10.13 / 2x xxx                    
McCaffrey, A Gift of Dragons 11.10 / 1 29 ++                    
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 5x xxx..     xxx..   xxx..   [ 6 ] xxx..    
Pratchett, Night Watch 11.10 / 1             4 ++        
Rice, Blackwood Farm 11.10 / 1 4 ++ 15 ++ 10 ++ 6 ++   3 ++   3 ++ 10 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   x   xxx.. xxx..              
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 117x x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   x   xxx.. xxx..              
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   x   xxx.. xxx..              
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs 10.27 / 3 21 -9     x   x   x   [ 9 ]  
Weber, War of Honor 10.13 / 4x x xxx xxx xxx..       xxx xxx.. [ 15 ]  
Williams, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way 10.13 / 5 31 -11 xxx   xxx       xxx   [ 13 ]  
   NYT
11.17
LAT
11.10
SFC
11.10
USAT
11.07
WP
11.10
WSJ
(11.09)
Book
seller

(11.09)
PW
11.11
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

11.11
Amz
(11.05)
Amz UK
(11.05)
Paperbacks
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting 9.29 / 7 5 -2 4 ++   28 -8       [ 10 ] 3 -2    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 22 9 +           xxx.. [ 8 ] xxx..    
Drake, Realm of Shadows 10.27 / 2x x                    
Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains 10.06 / 4x x     xxx..       xxx      
Hobb, Fool's Errand 10.27 / 1x                      
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 5x xxx..             [ 3 ] xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 9.08 / 10 28 -10     x     xx xx xxx..   [ 1 ]
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 11.10 / 1 3 ++     4 ++       2 ++      
Koontz, Strangers 10.13 / 4 27 -10     x              
Moning, The Dark Highlander 11.03 / 1x x                 [ 11 ]  
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass               9 =   xxx..    
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy                        
Pullman, Northern Lights               10 -3   xxx..    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife               xxx        
Rice, Blood & Gold 11.10 / 1       46 ++       14 ++ 4 ++    
Robb, Purity in Death 9.08 / 9x x xxx..   xxx..       xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   1 +1 7 + xxx.. 10 -2     3 +3   8 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 8.11 (us) / 14 2 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 16 =     2 +2   5 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 6.17.01 / 74 3 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 32 -2     4 -1   12 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   6 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     7 +3   xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set 10.20 / 3x                   [ 1 ]  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                        
Tolkien, The Two Towers                   6 +3    
   NYT
11.17
LAT
11.10
SFC
11.10
USAT
11.07
WP
11.10
WSJ
(11.09)
Book
seller

(11.09)
PW
11.11
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

11.11
Amz
(11.05)
Amz UK
(11.05)
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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