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Bestsellers Archive
02.16
02.09
02.02
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01.19
01.12
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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:

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SFFH on General Lists

23 February 2003

William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight vie for SFFH dominance on bestsellers lists -- along with Michael Crichton's Prey. All three books rank on six lists this week, with Gibson, the newest of the three, ranking highest on average. Sean Williams and Shane Dix Star Wars novel, The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant (Del Rey), is also doing very well, debuting on two more lists this week, including Amazon's. Two hardcovers debut on Amazon this week: Kate Elliott's The Gathering Storm (DAW), and Robert J. Sawyer's Humans (Tor). Gibson's novel is off Amazon's pre-publication list, but isn't ranked on this week's hardcover bestseller list. A new title on Amazon's pre-pub list is George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows, due for release by Bantam Spectra in September. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.02	LAT 02.23	SFC 02.23	USAT 02.20	WP 02.23	WSJ (02.09)	PW 02.24 (ch 02.01)	Book Sense 02.24	Amz (02.23)	UK Book Scan wk ending 02.15
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	15x4	30x3	50	10x4	10x2	15x5	15x6	25x4	25x3
Hardcovers
Cabot, Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator	02.02.03 / 2x	xx
Crichton, Prey	12.08.02 / 12	8 +3	7 +4	xxx..	41 +7	x	[ 4 ]	7 =	10 +1	5 -1	xxx..
Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom	02.16.03 / 1x									x
Elliott, The Gathering Storm	02.23.03 / 1									12 ++
Farmer, The House of the Scorpion	02.16.03 / 2									18 -1
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion	11.03.02 / 16	33 =								19 -5
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.01.02 / 9	xxx..	[ 3 ]					10 +	9 +1
Gibson, Pattern Recognition	02.09.03 / 3	9 -5	3 ++	1 =	x	2 ++		5 +1	4 =	x
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins	02.09.03 / 3									9 +14
Hobb, Golden Fool	01.19.03 / 5x									x
Jacques, Triss	10.13.02 / 12x	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..			xx	xxx..
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12.03 / 7	3 +2	11 -5	xx	22 -2	x	[ 2 ]	3 +1	5 =	3 -1	xxx..
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	12.29.02 / 9	11 +8	xxx		xxx			xx
Lansdale, A Fine Dark Line	02.09.03 / 1x		xx
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 1									21 ++
Nix, Abhorsen	01.19.03 / 6	xx						1 ++	8 -1
Rice, Blackwood Farm	11.10.02 / 13	34 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 3									1 =
Sawyer, Humans	02.23.03 / 1									23 ++
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars	01.05.03 / 6x									x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.02	LAT 02.23	SFC 02.23	USAT 02.20	WP 02.23	WSJ (02.09)	PW 02.24 (ch 02.01)	Book Sense 02.24	Amz (02.23)	UK Book Scan wk ending 02.15
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (uk)	01.12.03 / 7										18 -3
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	09.29.02 / 19	xxx	xxx..		xxx..			6 +	xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 37	9 -1	[ 5 ]					3 +	12 +2
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12.02 / 7	14 -2	xxx		17 -1			14 +1	xxx..
Koontz, Watchers	02.09.03 / 2x	x
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (uk)	11.17.02 / 15										18 -9
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		14 +4
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		8 -2
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											12 +7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		6 -1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				x		5 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 29	1 =	xxx..	xxx..	38 +4				1 =		1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 89	2 =	xxx..	xxx..	xxx				13 -10		2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		7 -3	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				15 ++		4 -1
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb]	11.24.02 / 11	29 +								xxx..	xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit					xx			xxx..	xx		xx
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [tpb]			xx		xxx..				xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King			xxx..		xx			xxx	x		xxx
Tolkien, The Silmarillion					xxx..					13 -2
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant	02.16.03 / 2	13 -3	9 ++		13 -2			5 =		4 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.02	LAT 02.23	SFC 02.23	USAT 02.20	WP 02.23	WSJ (02.09)	PW 02.24 (ch 02.01)	Book Sense 02.24	Amz (02.23)	UK Book Scan wk ending 02.15
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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