SFFH on General Lists

4 May 2003

Two debuts this week: John Ringo's Hell's Faire (Baen) on 2 hardcover lists, and William C. Dietz's Halo: The Flood (Del Rey) on 2 paperback lists. Gibson's Pattern Recognition has dropped off all lists. Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight remains on one list, New York Times'. Laurell K. Hamilton's Cerulean Sins is still going strong after 4 weeks (not counting pre-publication sales at Amazon). Wall Street Journal's list has been updated on the CNN site for the first time in many weeks; it may be dropped anyway from this chart to make room for something else, perhaps lists from Canada and Australia. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.11	LAT 05.04	SFC 05.04	USAT 04.30	WP 05.04	WSJ (05.05)	PW 05.05 (ch 04.01)	Book Sense 05.05	Amz (05.05)	UK Book Scan wk ending 04.26
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	15x4	30x3	50	10x4	10x2	15x5	15x6	25x4	25x3
Hardcovers
Bear, Darwin's Children	04.06.03 / 3	34 +								xxx
Carey, Kushiel's Avatar	04.13.03 / 3x	x								xx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code	04.27.03 / 2									19 +4
Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk	04.20.03 / 3	25 -6								25 ++
Fforde, Lost in a Good Book	04.13.03 / 4	28 +		xxx		x				x
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.01.02 / 13x	xxx..	xxx..					xx	xxx..
Gibson, Pattern Recognition	02.09.03 / 12x	xxx..	xxx..	xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	x
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins	02.09.03 / 13	14 -1	12 -4	8 +	xx	xx		14 -1	14 +	11 -4
Jacques, The Angel's Command	04.13.03 / 2x	xx							xx
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	01.12.03 / 17	29 -6	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	x	xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 4x									x
Ringo, Hell's Faire	05.04.03 / 1	22 ++								13 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets		xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	01.17.00 / 7x	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 13									1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		10 ++
Weber, Worlds of Honor #4: The Service of the Sword	04.06.03 / 4x	xxx..								x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.11	LAT 05.04	SFC 05.04	USAT 04.30	WP 05.04	WSJ (05.05)	PW 05.05 (ch 04.01)	Book Sense 05.05	Amz (05.05)	UK Book Scan wk ending 04.26
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Chabon, McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales [tpb]	04.13.03 / 4		xx	10 -7					xx	x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 43x	xxx..	xxx..					xx	xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl (UK)	04.27.03 / 1x										x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	04.13.03 / 4										6 =
Dietz, Halo: The Flood	05.04.03 / 1							11 ++		24 ++
Fforde, The Eyre Affair [tpb]	03.09.03 / 8x								x	x
King, Dreamcatcher	03.09.03 / 9	20 -7	xxx		35 -9			12 -3		xxx
King, Everything's Eventual (UK)	03.23.03 / 7										16 -3
Marshall, The Straw Men (UK)	04.20.03 / 3										7 +1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)									xxx..		21 +
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)									xxx..		23 -4
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)											x
Robb, Portrait in Death	03.09.03 / 7x	xx			xxx..			xxx..	xxx..	xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)											7 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		10 -2	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..				xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)											3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 39	2 +3	xxx..	xxx..	36 =				7 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)											8 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)											2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 99	3 +1	xxx..	xxx..	40 -1				6 +1
South, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale [tpb]	04.13.03 / 2					9 +
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set	02.23.03 / 11									20 -8	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.11	LAT 05.04	SFC 05.04	USAT 04.30	WP 05.04	WSJ (05.05)	PW 05.05 (ch 04.01)	Book Sense 05.05	Amz (05.05)	UK Book Scan wk ending 04.26
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.