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05.04 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
04.27
04.20
04.13
04.06
03.30
03.23
03.16
03.09
03.02
02.23
02.16
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
...
1.07.01
...
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:

May

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Stable Bestseller Links:
NYT
USA Today
PW
BookSense
Amazon

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.  



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