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10.05 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
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09.21
09.14
09.07
08.31
08.24
08.17
08.10
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07.20
07.13
07.06
06.29
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06.15
06.08
06.01
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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:

October

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SFFH on General Lists
5 October 2003


Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver (Morrow) debuts on 6 lists this week, ranking as high as #3 in San Francisco.

Neil Gaiman's latest Sandman graphic novel, Endless Nights (DC Comics), debuts on 3 lists, while Tamora Pierce's YA fantasy Trickster's Choice (Random House), debuts on 3 (2 of them children's lists).

Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, Monstrous Regiment, ranks #18 on the UK Bookscan list charted below, while the UK paperback edition of Night Watch ranks #20 on Bookscan's paperback list.

Meanwhile, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, The Machine Crusade (Tor) remains on 4 lists this week, while Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude remains on 6 lists.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.12
SFC
10.05
WP
10.05
USAT
10.01
PW
10.06
(ch 09.01)
Book
Sense

10.06
Amz
(10.06)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
09.27
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.06)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 25x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 5                   32 +
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus 08.24.03 / 7 18 -5     132 -45 x xxx xxx     xxx
Bujold, Paladin of Souls 08.10.03 / 2 28 ++                 xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code 04.27.03 / 21x x     xxx.. xxx.. x xxx..      
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 05.11.03 / 21               xx 7 +  
Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights 09.28.03 / 2 20 ++     113 ++     79 -39     19 ++
Gaiman/McKean, The Wolves in the Walls 08.17.03 / 8 7 +1         xxx.. xxx     xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 17 29 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx xxx.. xxx..      
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 17                   xxx..
Hearn, Grass for His Pillow (AUSTRALIA) 09.07.03 / 5                 4 -1  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 09.14.03 / 4 9 -2 x 8 ++ 49 -14 9 -2   x     xxx
Jacques, Loamhedge 09.28.03 / 2             58 -14      
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 15             48 -7     xxx..
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude 09.14.03 / 4 17 -2 6 -2 9 ++ 136 +11 x 12 -2 77 +     x
Nix, Abhorsen 01.19.03 / 10x xxx..       xxx.. xxx..       x
Nix, Lirael (UK) 09.07.03 / 5               18 -6    
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 5 5 -2     85 +17   4 = 21 +46      
Pierce, Trickster's Choice 10.05.03 / 1 7 ++     82 ++   8 ++        
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK) 10.05.03 / 1               18 ++    
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.11.03 / 21x               x    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   x           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 24x x           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 34 2 -1 9 +   16 -3 x 3 -1 29 -4      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 15               1 = 2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 13                   38 -19
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 8                   39 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   x           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   x           xxx..      
Spiegelman/Mouly, Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night 09.21.03 / 1x             xx      
Stephenson, Quicksilver 09.07.03 / 5 6 ++ 3 ++   17 ++ 5 ++ 6 ++ 31 -22     17 -2
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.12
SFC
10.05
WP
10.05
USAT
10.01
PW
10.06
(ch 09.01)
Book
Sense

10.06
Amz
(10.06)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
09.27
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.06)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 12       137 -10            
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 08.24.03 / 6 xx     131 -21           xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 58x xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 05.19.02 / 58x                   xx
Crichton, Prey (UK) 08.17.03 / 8               12 -3    
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 2           13 ++       x
Gaiman, Coraline [tpb] 08.10.03 / 5x xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. x         xxx..
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 09.14.03 / 4 34 -1     72 -12   10 =        
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 07.13.03 / 8x x     xxx..            
King, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands 09.14.03 / 3x       x            
Morgan, Altered Carbon [tpb] 09.21.03 / 1x             xx      
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 11x       x           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 10x       xx            
Pratchett, Night Watch (UK) 10.05.03 / 1               20 ++    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)             xxx..   x    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   15 =    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 x    
Robb, Imitation in Death 09.07.03 / 5 15 -13   xxx 44 -15 14 -5 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                 11 -3 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   7 -2 xxx..   140 +2   x        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 6 -1 6 +2  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 61 3 = xxx..   79 -7   10 -3        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                 10 -1 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 7 -1 10 -3  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 121 5 -1 xxx..   88 -6   15 -7        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   6 = xxx..   134 -9   14 =        
Tolkien, The Hobbit         xx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..    
Tolkien, The Return of the King         x xxx.. xxx..   xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.12
SFC
10.05
WP
10.05
USAT
10.01
PW
10.06
(ch 09.01)
Book
Sense

10.06
Amz
(10.06)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
09.27
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.06)
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales [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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