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9 March 2003

Debuting this week are two paperbacks: J.D. Robb's Portrait in Death (Berkley), latest in the series of detective thrillers set in 2059, and the movie tie-in paperback edition of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (Pocket). Robb debuts on 4 lists (and ranks on Amazon's not-yet-published list); King on 3 lists. A couple not-quite-debuts are the trade paperback of Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (Penguin USA), running-up on BookSense's trade paperback list at #16; and Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Tomorrow Log (Meisha Merlin), due in February but showing up on Amazon's not-yet-published list at #20. Meanwhile, Gibson, Jordan, and Crichton continue to dominate hardcover lists, with Crichton still on 5 lists and the other two on 7 lists each. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.16	LAT 03.09	SFC 03.09	USAT 03.05	WP 03.09	WSJ (03.09)	PW 03.10 (ch 02.01)	Book Sense 03.10	Amz (03.09)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.01
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 / 3x	x
Crichton, Prey	12.08.02 / 14	10 =	5 +5	xxx..	xx	xxx	8 -1	9 =	x	12 -2	xxx..
Elliott, The Gathering Storm	02.23.03 / 1x									xx
Farmer, The House of the Scorpion	02.16.03 / 2x									xx
Fisher, The Two Towers Visual Companion	11.03.02 / 16x	xx								xx
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.01.02 / 11x	x	xxx..					[ 10 ]	xx
Gibson, Pattern Recognition	02.09.03 / 5	12 -3	x	2 -1	xxx	3 =	9 =	8 -1	6 +1	3 =
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins	02.09.03 / 5									14 =
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12.03 / 9	7 =	10 -4	xxx..	x	7 +1	5 =	6 -1	12 -4	9 -1	xxx..
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	12.29.02 / 11	30 -2	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..	xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 1x									xx
Nix, Abhorsen	01.19.03 / 7x	xxx..						[ 1 ]	x
Rice, Blackwood Farm	11.10.02 / 13x	xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 5									1 =
Sawyer, Humans	02.23.03 / 1x									xx
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.16	LAT 03.09	SFC 03.09	USAT 03.05	WP 03.09	WSJ (03.09)	PW 03.10 (ch 02.01)	Book Sense 03.10	Amz (03.09)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.01
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (UK)	01.12.03 / 8x										x
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting	09.29.02 / 20	8 +	xxx..		xxx..			[ 6 ]	10 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 39	9 -1	xxx..					[ 3 ]	11 +1
Fforde, The Eyre Affair [tpb]	03.09.03 / 1								16 ++
King, Dreamcatcher	03.09.03 / 1	4 ++			6 ++			5 ++
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12.02 / 10	25 -10	xxx..		45 -26			x	xxx..
Koontz, Watchers	02.09.03 / 3x	x
Lee/Miller, Tomorrow Log [tpb]	03.09.03 / 1									20 ++
Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (UK)	11.17.02 / 15x										xx
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		20 =
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		16 -1
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											21 +2
Robb, Portrait in Death	03.09.03 / 1	1 ++			3 ++			2 ++	5 ++	2 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)											5 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		3 +1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)											2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 31	1 =	xxx..	xxx..	48 -11				3 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)											6 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)											1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 91	2 =	xxx..	xxx..	x				8 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		6 -3	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xx
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy [tpb]	11.24.02 / 12x	x								xxx..	xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set	02.23.03 / 3									6 +1	xx
Tolkien, The Silmarillion					xxx..					25 +
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant	02.16.03 / 4	30 -10	x		47 -24			15 -8		13 -1
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.16	LAT 03.09	SFC 03.09	USAT 03.05	WP 03.09	WSJ (03.09)	PW 03.10 (ch 02.01)	Book Sense 03.10	Amz (03.09)	UK Book Scan wk ending 03.01
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.