SFFH on General Lists

8 December 2003

Anne & Todd McCaffrey's Dragon's Kin (Del Rey) debuts on two hardcover fiction lists this week. Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand (Miramax) debut on two children's lists. The paperback reprint of Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight (Tor) debuts on 5 lists, while that of Stephen King's From a Buick 8 (Pocket) is on 3 lists. King's Wolves of the Calla remains on the most lists, 8, of all books this week. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.14	SFC 12.07	WP 12.07	USAT 12.03	PW 12.08 (ch 11.01)	Book Sense 12.03	Amz (12.08)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 11.29	Australia: Dymocks (12.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.08)
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 / 12										13 =
Card, The Crystal City	11.23.03 / 1x	xx
Fisher, The Return of The King Visual Companion	11.16.03 / 4	33 -3			xx						xxx
Funke, Inkheart	10.12.03 / 9	4 =			130 +12	xxx..	3 +2	46 +32			20 +53
Hobb, Fool's Fate (UK)	10.19.03 / 6x									xx
Jacques, Loamhedge	09.28.03 / 10x	x			xxx..	xxx..	x	xxx..
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla	05.25.03 / 24	5 -1	xx	7 -2	11 -3	5 -1	8 -3	19 -7			46 -29
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (UK)	11.16.03 / 4								35 -8
Luceno, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force	11.02.03 / 6	28 -8			x	xx		xxx..			xxx..
Maguire, Mirror Mirror	10.26.03 / 5x	xxx..	xx		xxx..
McCaffrey/McCaffrey, Dragon's Kin	12.07.03 / 1	21 ++			124 ++
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife	10.12.03 / 9	34 -3		xxx..	xxx..		x	35 -3
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 14	2 =			25 =	xxx..	1 =	12 +3			x
Pierce, Trickster's Choice	10.05.03 / 4x	x			xxx..		xxx..
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK)	10.05.03 / 10								14 +1	xxx..	xx
Pullman, Lyra's Oxford (UK)	11.16.03 / 4								5 -2
Rice, Blood Canticle	10.12.03 / 9	14 -3	8 +	x	55 -15	14 -7	xx	xx			xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 43	1 =	xxx..		12 +3	xxx..	5 -2	14 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK)	06.29.03 / 24								6 +3	4 +3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA)	07.06.03 / 22										19 -10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		9 +1						xxx..
Salvatore, The Lone Drow	08.31.03 / 9	27 -5			150 -56	xx	xxx..	xxx..			x
Stephenson, Quicksilver	09.07.03 / 13x	xxx..	xxx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xx	xx			x
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand	12.07.03 / 1	10 ++					10 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.14	SFC 12.07	WP 12.07	USAT 12.03	PW 12.08 (ch 11.01)	Book Sense 12.03	Amz (12.08)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 11.29	Australia: Dymocks (12.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brawn, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Photo Guide [tpb]	11.24.02 / 3x										xx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	05.19.02 / 59	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..	14 +				xxx..
Crichton, Prey	11.23.03 / 3	3 -1		2 +1	10 -4	4 -2	3 +1				91 -58
Crichton, Timeline [tpb]	11.16.03 / 4	12 =			32 -12	8 -1	8 ++
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.28.03 / 11	8 -1			115 +16	xxx..	4 =				xxx..
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	12.07.03 / 1	17 ++			26 ++	13 ++	10 ++				55 ++
King, From a Buick 8	12.07.03 / 1	7 ++			14 ++	5 ++
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	11.16.03 / 4	5 -1			20 -9	12 -4
Pratchett, Night Watch (UK)	10.05.03 / 10								21 -7
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)							xxx..		12 +1
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)							xxx..		7 -1
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)									11 +1
Rice, Blackwood Farm	10.12.03 / 8x	xxx			x	xxx..					xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		6 +4	xxx..		138 +		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)									25 +	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 70	2 =	xxx..		72 +3		13 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)									xxx..	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 130	3 =	xxx..		71 +3		x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		5 +4	xxx..		119 +20		xx
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb]	10.20.02 / 16				xxx..			74 -1
Smith, The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare [tpb]	11.16.03 / 4	7 -1			97 +6
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set	02.23.03 / 14							62 -9	xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King		xx			133 +	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.14	SFC 12.07	WP 12.07	USAT 12.03	PW 12.08 (ch 11.01)	Book Sense 12.03	Amz (12.08)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 11.29	Australia: Dymocks (12.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.08)
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.