SFFH on General Lists

27 July 2003

Publishers Weekly's children's bestseller lists for July are now posted, with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at #1. Other lists compiled here rank the book at #1 on children's lists, or at 2 or 3 on fiction hardcover lists. Only Washington Post ignores it altogether. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 08.03	SFC 07.27	WP 07.27	USAT 07.23	PW 07.28 (ch 06.01)	Book Sense 07.28	Amz (07.29)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 07.19	Australia: Dymocks (07.29)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.29)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	30x3	10x4	150	15x5	15x6	100	25x3	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Book (CANADA)	07.27.03 / 1										49 ++
Atwood, Oryx and Crake	05.11.03 / 10x	xxx..	xx	xxx..		xxx..	xxx	xxx..
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA)	07.06.03 / 3										38 +
Card, Shadow Puppets	09.01.02 / 3x				x
Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others	07.20.03 / 1x										x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code	04.27.03 / 14	5 +3			80 -7	4 +	9 =	x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK)	05.11.03 / 12								6 +3	7 =
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.01.02 / 21	xxx				10 +	xxx..
Gingrich/Forstchen, Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War	06.22.03 / 6	23 +3		xxx..	x	xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire	06.01.03 / 7							39 ++			7 ++
Hagberg, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	07.20.03 / 1x				x
Hoffman, The Probable Future	07.06.03 / 4	x	x			xxx	12 =
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger	05.25.03 / 9	31 -11				xxx		xxx..
King, The Stand (CANADA)	07.20.03 / 1x										x
Koontz, The Face	06.01.03 / 9	26 -11			x	x		xxx..			x
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK)	05.11.03 / 12								8 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets		6 -1						xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	01.17.00 / 15	2 =						xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 24	1 =	2 =		1 =	1 ++	1 =	3 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK)	06.29.03 / 5								1 =	1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA)	07.06.03 / 4										3 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (UK)	06.29.03 / 5								7 -1	xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (CANADA)	07.06.03 / 4										8 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (CANADA)	07.13.03 / 1x										xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		3 =						xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone		4 =						xxx
Simmons, Ilium	07.20.03 / 2							x			81 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 08.03	SFC 07.27	WP 07.27	USAT 07.23	PW 07.28 (ch 06.01)	Book Sense 07.28	Amz (07.29)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 07.19	Australia: Dymocks (07.29)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.29)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Anderson, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	07.20.03 / 2				141 -33
Auel, The Shelters of Stone	07.13.03 / 3	3 -1			15 -5	3 -1	4 =
Auel, The Shelters of Stone (UK)	05.11.03 / 8x								xxx..	x
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 2				81 -6
Card, Shadow Puppets	06.22.03 / 6					xxx..	9 +1				xxx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 51	x			xxx..	7 +	11 +1
Colfer, Artemis Fowl (UK)	04.27.03 / 12								12 +1	9 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 51										48 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	05.18.03 / 10	xxx..				6 +	13 +1
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (UK)	04.13.03 / 16								15 +2
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	05.18.03 / 10										90 ++
Gerber, Barry Trotter & the Shameless Parody (AUS)	07.06.03 / 4									5 =
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger	07.13.03 / 3	33 ++			52 -4
King, From a Buick 8 (UK)	06.15.03 / 7								16 -4
Moore/O'Neill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [tpb]	07.13.03 / 3							x			47 +
Orwell, Animal Farm	07.20.03 / 2				103 +16						39 ++
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 2				101 -11
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)							xxx..		x
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)							xxx..		17 -5
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)									20 +1
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (UK)	07.06.03 / 2x									x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)									4 =	8 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		4 =	xxx..		27 -9		5 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)									2 +1	2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 51	1 =	xxx..		14 -5		2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)									5 =	4 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)									3 -1	3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 111	2 =	xxx..		17 -4		3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		3 =	xxx..		23 -7		4 =
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb]	10.20.02 / 7				124 -61			43 -15
Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs	07.13.03 / 3	32 +2			72 -6
Williams/Dix, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion	07.13.03 / 3	21 +1			47 -14	11 -1		x
Willis, Doomsday Book	07.20.03 / 1x										x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 08.03	SFC 07.27	WP 07.27	USAT 07.23	PW 07.28 (ch 06.01)	Book Sense 07.28	Amz (07.29)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 07.19	Australia: Dymocks (07.29)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.29)
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.