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 01.05	WSJ (01.05)	PW 01.06 (ch 12.01)	Book Sense 01.06	Amz (01.05)	UK Book Scan wk ending 12.28
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 Sense 01.06	Amz (01.05)	UK Book Scan wk ending 12.28
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 01.12	LAT 01.05	SFC 01.05	USAT 01.02	WP 01.05	WSJ (01.05)	PW 01.06 (ch 12.01)	Book Sense 01.06	Amz (01.05)	UK Book Scan wk ending 12.28
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.