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01.05 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
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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:

January

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SFFH on General Lists
5 January 2003


Dean Koontz's new novel By the Light of the Moon (Bantam) debuts on a couple more lists, though not impressively, reaching only as high as #5.

David Weber & John Ringo's March to the Stars (Baen) debuts at #9 on the Amazon list.

Tolkien paperbacks make gains on several lists this week, while the Harvard Lampoon Bored of the Rings appears at #14 on Amazon's paperback list.

All lists are updated this week.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.12
LAT
01.05
SFC
01.05
USAT
01.02
WP
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WSJ
(01.05)
PW
01.06
(ch 12.01)
Book
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01.06
Amz
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UK Book
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 15x4 30x3 50 10x4 10x2 15x5 15x6 25x4 25x3
Hardcovers
Allende, City of the Beasts 12.29 / 1x     x              
Barker, Abarat 9.29 / 9x xxx.. xxx..             xx  
Chabon, Summerland 9.15 / 16 xxx.. xxx.. 6 -3   xxx..   [ 6 ] 7 =    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5.12 / 24x xxx..           [ 8 ] xxx..    
Crichton, Prey 12.08 / 5 3 -2 2 = 4 = 2 = 3 -2 1 = 1 + 2 = 2 -1 xxx
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion 11.03 / 9 29 +3               8 +7  
Funke, The Thief Lord 9.01 / 19 5 =   xxx..       [ 4 ] 5 -1    
Gaiman, Coraline 7.14 / 19x xxx.. [ 3 ] xxx..       xxx.. xxx.. x  
Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody (uk) 12.01 / 0x                   13 -6
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 9.29 / 12x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. x  
Jacques, Triss 10.13 / 11 xxx.. [ 6 ]   xxx..     [ 7 ] 8 +2    
King, From a Buick 8 9.08 / 18 10 -1 xxx..   34 -3 xxx.. xxx.. 10 + xxx.. 15 -3  
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon 12.29 / 2 5 +26     16 ++     5 ++      
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight 9.08 / 5x xxx..     xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Pratchett, Night Watch (uk) 11.10 / 9                   5 =
Pratchett, Night Watch 11.17 / 4x xxx..               xxx..  
Rice, Blackwood Farm 11.10 / 9 16 +3 11 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 14 + xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   x   xxx.. xxx..            
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 7.17.00 / 124 8 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   7 =   xxx.. xxx..            
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   10 +   xxx.. xxx..            
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs 10.27 / 10 33 +     xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   xx  
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy 11.24 / 4                 20 +  
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set                   xxx..  
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars 01.05 / 1                 9 ++  
   NYT
01.12
LAT
01.05
SFC
01.05
USAT
01.02
WP
01.05
WSJ
(01.05)
PW
01.06
(ch 12.01)
Book
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01.06
Amz
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UK Book
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Paperbacks
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting 9.29 / 15 9 +1 [ 4 ]   xxx..     [ 1 ] xx    
Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Photo Guide 11.24 / 2x x               xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5.19 / 30 6 =           [ 2 ] 11 -2    
Cook, Taken 12.15 / 3x x                  
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 11.17 / 8 26 +1     xxx..     xxx xxx.. xxx..  
Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings                   19 ++  
Jacques, Taggerung 9.08 / 5x xxx..           xxx.. xxx..    
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 11.10 / 9 4 -1 xxx..   20 -3     7 + xxx..    
Koontz, Strangers 10.13 / 4x xxx..     xxx..            
Lem, Solaris 12.15 / 1x                 xxx  
Moning, The Dark Highlander 11.03 / 4x xxx..               xxx..  
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk) 11.17 / 8                   2 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)                 xxx..   x
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy                   16 -6  
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)                 xxx..   20 -7
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                     x
Rice, Blood & Gold 11.10 / 6x xxx     xxx..     xxx.. xxx    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   3 = [ 7 ] xxx.. 26 -11       10 -2   10 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 8.11 (us) / 22 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 11 -4       1 +2   7 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 6.17.01 / 82 2 = xxx.. xxx.. 18 -7       4 +1   6 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   4 = xxx.. xxx.. 38 -11       12 =   16 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set 10.20 / 11       xx         1 = 22 -4
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy 11.24 / 5 5 +2               xxx..  
Taylor/Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures 12.29 / 1 7 ++                  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring         23 +32       5 +4    
Tolkien, The Hobbit         15 +20     xx 4 +1    
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings                 11 ++    
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set         9 +10       8 ++    
Tolkien, The Return of the King         7 +23     4 ++ 2 +    
Tolkien, The Two Towers     8 +   19 +21     5 + 3 =   24 +10
   NYT
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LAT
01.05
SFC
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USAT
01.02
WP
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WSJ
(01.05)
PW
01.06
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Book
Sense

01.06
Amz
(01.05)
UK Book
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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.  



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