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Bestsellers Archive
02.09
02.02
01.26
01.19
01.12
01.05
12.29
12.22
12.15
12.08
12.01
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7.07
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1.06.02
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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:

February

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SFFH on General Lists

16 February 2003

William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (Putnam) debuts on 5 lists this week, ranking #1 on the San Francisco list, #4 at New York Times. It still ranks on Amazon's not-yet-published list (despite being an online bookseller, Amazon's category bestseller lists seem to run a couple weeks behind everyone else's). Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight (Tor) drops off the San Francisco list it placed on just once, but still ranks highly on most lists. Debuting this week is a Star Wars novel by Sean Williams and Shane Dix, The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant (Del Rey), ranking #10 on NYT's paperback fiction list, #5 on PW's, and #11 on the overall USA Today list. Also debuting, on the Amazon list, are Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Nancy Farmer's Newbury honor book The House of the Scorpion. Notable is the US edition of Robin Hobb's Golden Fool (Bantam Spectra), which has ranked among Amazon's top 25 fiction hardcovers for 5 weeks now, though it hasn't appeared on any other list. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.23	LAT 02.16	SFC 02.16	USAT 02.13	WP 02.16	WSJ (02.09)	PW 02.17 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.17	Amz (02.16)	UK Book Scan wk ending 02.08
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	15x4	30x3	50	10x4	10x2	15x5	15x6	25x4	25x3
Hardcovers
Bradbury, Let's All Kill Constance	01.12 / 3x		xx
Cabot, Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator	02.02 / 2x	x
Chabon, Summerland	9.15 / 19x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx		xxx..		[ 4 ]	xxx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	5.12 / 26x	xxx..	xxx..					[ 7 ]	xxx..
Crichton, Prey	12.08 / 11	11 -3	11 +4	xxx	48 -4	6 +	[ 4 ]	7 =	11 -6	4 =	xxx..
Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom	02.16 / 1									20 ++
Farmer, The House of the Scorpion	02.16 / 1									17 ++
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion	11.03 / 15	33 -3								14 -3
Funke, The Thief Lord	9.01 / 25	xxx..		xxx..				[ 1 ]	10 +1
Gibson, Pattern Recognition		4 ++		1 ++	34 ++			6 ++	4 ++	5 -1
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins										23 -2
Hobb, Golden Fool	01.19 / 5									19 -4
Jacques, Triss	10.13 / 12x	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..			[ 6 ]	xxx..
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12 / 6	5 -3	6 -2	x	20 -7	3 -2	[ 2 ]	4 -2	5 -3	2 =	xxx..
King, From a Buick 8	9.08 / 22x	xxx	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xx
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	12.29 / 8	19 -10	xx		xx			x
Lansdale, A Fine Dark Line	02.09 / 1x		x
Nix, Abhorsen	01.19 / 5	x							7 -4
Pratchett, Night Watch (uk)	11.10 / 15										xxx..
Rice, Blackwood Farm	11.10 / 12x	x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets		xxx		xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	7.17.00 / 127x	xxx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix										1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		xxx		xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone		xxx..		xxx..	xxx..
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy	11.24 / 6x									xxx..
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars	01.05 / 6									23 +
		NYT 02.23	LAT 02.16	SFC 02.16	USAT 02.13	WP 02.16	WSJ (02.09)	PW 02.17 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.17	Amz (02.16)	UK Book Scan wk ending 02.08
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (uk)	01.12 / 0x										15 -2
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	9.29 / 18x	xx	xxx		xxx..			[ 8 ]	xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	5.19 / 36	8 =						[ 3 ]	14 =
Cook, Taken	12.15 / 3x	xxx..
Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth [tpb]										xxx..
Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings [tpb]										xxx..	xxx..
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12 / 6	12 -3	xx		16 -4			15 -8	xxx
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven	11.10 / 13x	xx	xxx..		xx			xxx..	xxx..
Koontz, Watchers	02.09 / 2	31 -2
Martin, A Storm of Swords [tpb]										xx
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk)	11.17 / 14										9 -4
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		18 -3
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy										xxx..
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		6 +2
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											19 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		5 -2	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				12 =		4 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	8.11 (us) / 28	1 =	xxx..	xxx..	42 -12				1 +3		1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	6.17.01 / 88	2 =	xxx..	xxx..	xx				3 -1		2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		4 =	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xxx		3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb]	10.20 / 13x				xxx..					xxx..	xx
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb]	11.24 / 10x	x								xxx..	xxx..
Taylor/Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures [tpb]	12.29 / 2x	xxx..
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring					xx				xxx
Tolkien, The Hobbit					x			xxx..	x		x
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [tpb]			x		xxx..				xxx..
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Box Set					xxx..				xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King [tpb]									xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King			xxx..		x			xx	10 -2		xx
Tolkien, The Silmarillion					xxx..					11 -4
Tolkien, The Silmarillion [tpb]										xxx..
Tolkien, The Two Towers			xxx..		xx			xxx..	xx		xxx..
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant	02.16 / 1	10 ++			11 ++			5 ++		9 ++
		NYT 02.23	LAT 02.16	SFC 02.16	USAT 02.13	WP 02.16	WSJ (02.09)	PW 02.17 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.17	Amz (02.16)	UK Book Scan wk ending 02.08
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists		This cell color indicates rankings on pre-publication or 'not yet published' 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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