SFFH on General Lists

19 January 2003

Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight (Tor) debuts on 6 US lists, at #1 on five of them (including New York Times, where it was a runner-up last week, and thus not yet on the official list). It's ranking lower on UK's BookScan list, down 1 to #20 this week. Also debuting this week is Garth Nix's Abhorsen (Eos), ranking high on two children's lists. San Francisco Chronicle hasn't posted a list this weekend, but all other lists are updated. Los Angeles Times posted its occasional children's list. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 01.26	LAT 01.19	SFC 01.12	USAT 01.16	WP 01.19	WSJ (01.19)	PW 01.20 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 01.20	Amz (01.19)	UK Book Scan wk ending 01.11
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
Barker, Abarat	9.29 / 9x	xxx..	xxx..							xxx..
Bradbury, Let's All Kill Constance	01.12 / 1x		x
Chabon, Summerland	9.15 / 18	xxx..	xxx..	[ 6 ]		xxx..		[ 4 ]	14 +1
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	5.12 / 26	xxx..	5					[ 7 ]	xxx..
Crichton, Prey	12.08 / 7	4 -1	2 =	[ 10 ]	17 -9	2 =	3 -1	3 -1	6 -4	2 =	xxx..
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion	11.03 / 11	33 -27								7 =
Funke, The Thief Lord	9.01 / 21	xx	3					[ 1 ]	7 -2
Gaiman, Coraline	7.14 / 19x	xxx..	x					xxx..	xxx..	xxx
Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody (uk)	12.01 / 0x										xx
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad	9.29 / 12x	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx
Hobb, The Golden Fool	01.19 / 1									8 ++
Jacques, Triss	10.13 / 12x	xxx..	x		xxx..			[ 6 ]	xx
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12 / 2	1 +31	11 ++		1 ++		1 ++	1 ++	1 ++		20 -1
King, From a Buick 8	9.08 / 20	x	xxx..		xx	xxx..	xxx..	xx	xxx..	22 +1
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	12.29 / 4	3 -1	7 -2		34 -13		6 -2	5 -2
Nix, Abhorsen	01.19 / 1	3 ++							2 ++
Pierce, Protector of the Small: Lady Knight	9.08 / 5x	xxx..			xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Pratchett, Night Watch (uk)	11.10 / 11										23 -15
Pratchett, Night Watch	11.17 / 4x	xxx..								xxx..
Rice, Blackwood Farm	11.10 / 11	20 -2	xx		xxx..		xxx..	xx	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets		9 -1			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	7.17.00 / 126	8 -3	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		6 =			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone		10 +			xxx..
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs	10.27 / 10x	xx			xxx..		xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy	11.24 / 6									16 =
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set										xxx..
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars	01.05 / 3									11 -2
		NYT 01.26	LAT 01.19	SFC 01.12	USAT 01.16	WP 01.19	WSJ (01.19)	PW 01.20 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 01.20	Amz (01.19)	UK Book Scan wk ending 01.11
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (uk)	01.12 / 0x										9 +7
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	9.29 / 17	9 =	7		xxx..			[ 8 ]	xxx..
Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Photo Guide [tpb]	11.24 / 2x	xxx								xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	5.19 / 32	10 -4						[ 3 ]	11 -4
Cook, Taken	12.15 / 3x	xxx
Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth [tpb]										20 -6
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation	11.17 / 9x	x			xxx..			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings [tpb]										xx	x
Jacques, Taggerung	9.08 / 5x	xxx..						xxx..	xxx..
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12 / 2	3 =	10 ++		6 =			5 -1	x
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven	11.10 / 11	20 -9	xxx..		44 -14			x	xxx..
Koontz, Strangers	10.13 / 4x	xxx..			xxx..
Lem, Solaris [tpb]	12.15 / 1x									xxx..
Martin, A Storm of Swords [tpb]										x
Moning, The Dark Highlander	11.03 / 4x	xxx..								xxx..
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk)	11.17 / 10										3 +2
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		16 +
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy										xx
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		11 +11
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											17 +
Rice, Blood & Gold	11.10 / 6x	xxx..			xxx..			xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		3 =	x		x				8 -2		7 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	8.11 (us) / 24	1 =	xxx..		28 -12				1 =		4 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	6.17.01 / 84	2 =	xxx..		38 -19				3 -1		2 +5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		4 =	xxx..		xx				x		12 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb]	10.20 / 13				xxx..					4 -1	xx
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb]	11.24 / 7	18 -9								xxx..	25 -2
Taylor/Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures [tpb]	12.29 / 2x	x
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring					24 -11				6 -1
Tolkien, The Hobbit					14 -4			xxx..	8 -2		24 ++
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [tpb]					43 -28				11 -1
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set					35 -18				xx
Tolkien, The Return of the King [tpb]									x
Tolkien, The Return of the King			x		10 -5			6 +1	3 =		15 -2
Tolkien, The Silmarillion					x					2 -1
Tolkien, The Silmarillion [tpb]										17 =
Tolkien, The Two Towers			x		23 -9			13 -5	10 -6		25 -3
		NYT 01.26	LAT 01.19	SFC 01.12	USAT 01.16	WP 01.19	WSJ (01.19)	PW 01.20 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 01.20	Amz (01.19)	UK Book Scan wk ending 01.11
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.