SFFH on General Lists

1 December 2002

Michael Gerber's Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody (Gollancz) reaches #22 among UK fiction titles on the Bookscan chart. Elsewhere, Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord, published in September, enters San Francisco Chronicle's hardcover fiction list for the first time, at #10. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.08	LAT 12.01	SFC 12.01	USAT 11.26	WP 12.01	WSJ (11.30)	PW 12.02 (ch 10.01)	Book Sense 12.02	Amz (12.01)	UK Book Scan wk ending 11.23
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	15x4	30x3	50	10x4	10x2	15x5	15x6	25x4	25x3
Hardcovers
Barker, Abarat	9.29 / 7x	xxx..	xxx							xxx
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr	9.08 / 11x	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	x
Chabon, Summerland	9.15 / 11	9 -1	xxx..	5 =		xxx..		[ 1 ]	10 -1
Cherryh, Explorer	11.17 / 2x									x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	5.12 / 23x	xxx..						[ 9 ]	xxx..
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion	11.03 / 4									16 +2
Funke, The Thief Lord	9.01 / 14	4 +6		10 ++				[ 7 ]	4 +2
Gaiman, Coraline	7.14 / 16x	xxx..	[ 3 ]	xxx..				[ ]	xxx..	xxx..
Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody (uk)	12.01 / 0x										22 +5
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad	9.29 / 8	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	18 +6
Jacques, Triss	10.13 / 8	xxx	[ 6 ]		xxx..				11 +1
King, From a Buick 8	9.08 / 13	17 -1	xxx..		xxx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx	xxx..	8 +1
McCaffrey, A Gift of Dragons	11.10 / 3x	xxx								x
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight	9.08 / 5x	xxx..			xxx..		xxx..	[ 6 ]	xxx..
Pratchett, Night Watch (uk)	11.10 / 4										3 -1
Pratchett, Night Watch	11.17 / 3	xx								17 -3
Rice, Blackwood Farm	11.10 / 4	12 -1	6 +3	xx	29 -6		x	9 =	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets		x		xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	7.17.00 / 119	10 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		8 +		xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone		xx		xxx..	xxx..
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs	10.27 / 6	27 -4			xxx..		xxx..	xxx..		15 =
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy	11.24 / 2									22 -1
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set										12 +4
Weber, War of Honor	10.13 / 5x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..	xx
Williams, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way	10.13 / 6x	xxx	xxx..		xxx..			xxx..		xx
		NYT 12.08	LAT 12.01	SFC 12.01	USAT 11.26	WP 12.01	WSJ (11.30)	PW 12.02 (ch 10.01)	Book Sense 12.02	Amz (12.01)	UK Book Scan wk ending 11.23
Paperbacks
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	9.29 / 10	6 =	[ 4 ]		x			[ 10 ]	x
Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Photo Guide	11.24 / 1x									x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	5.19 / 25	8 +1						[ 8 ]	13 +2
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation	11.17 / 3	14 +4			38 -5			4 ++	5 +3	17 -10
Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains	10.06 / 4x	xxx..			xxx..			xxx..		xxx..
Jacques, Taggerung	9.08 / 5x	xxx..						[ 3 ]	xxx..
King/Straub, Black House	9.08 / 10x	xxx			xxx..			xxx..	xxx..		xx
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven	11.10 / 4	2 =	9 +		11 -6			2 =	6 ++
Koontz, Strangers	10.13 / 4x	xxx			xxx..
Moning, The Dark Highlander	11.03 / 4	xxx..								23 -10
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk)	11.17 / 3										5 +1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy										11 +5
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)
Rice, Blood & Gold	11.10 / 4	16 +5			xx			12 +	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets		1 =	[ 7 ]	xxx..	5 -2				7 -2		2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	8.11 (us) / 17	3 =	xxx..	xxx..	7 +1				3 +1		11 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	6.17.01 / 77	2 =	xxx..	xxx..	4 +6				6 +4		8 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone		4 +1	xxx..	xxx..	13 +7				14 +		18 +3
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set	10.20 / 6									1 =
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy	11.24 / 1x									x
Tolkien, The Two Towers								11 ++	3 =
		NYT 12.08	LAT 12.01	SFC 12.01	USAT 11.26	WP 12.01	WSJ (11.30)	PW 12.02 (ch 10.01)	Book Sense 12.02	Amz (12.01)	UK Book Scan wk ending 11.23
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists				[Italics and brackets, and/or this cell color, 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)

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, and BookScan, which combines hardcovers and paperbacks within lists for fiction, nonfiction, and children's. 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.