SFFH on General Lists

8 February 2004

Divided in Death, the latest in Nora Roberts' long-running series of futuristic romantic suspense novels (written as J.D. Robb), debuts on 6 lists this week, as high as #3 on the fiction hardcover lists at New York Times and Publishers Weekly. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.15	SFC 02.08	WP 02.08	USAT 02.04	PW 02.09 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.09	Amz (02.09)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 01.31	Australia: Dymocks (02.09)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.09)
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 / 16										44 +3
Colfer, Artemis Fowl						xxx..	13 ++
Fisher, The Return of The King Visual Companion	11.16.03 / 10	xxx..			xxx..			xxx..			94 +
Funke, Inkheart	10.12.03 / 18	7 =			xxx..	xxx..	6 -3	xxx..			xxx..
Hamilton, Seduced by Moonlight	01.18.04 / 4							25 +1			57 -1
Jordan, New Spring	12.28.03 / 7	9 -2		10 -2	40 -12	5 =	11 -2	x			x
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla	05.25.03 / 33	25 -4	xxx..	xxx..	x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xx
Koontz, Odd Thomas	12.14.03 / 9	23 -6		xxx..	x	xx		xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife	10.12.03 / 18	21 -2		xxx..	xxx	xxx..	x	x			xxx..
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 23	1 =			30 -3	xxx..	1 =	70 -11			xxx
Paolini, Eragon (UK)	01.11.04 / 5								5 +3	2 ++
Pullman, Lyra's Oxford (UK)	11.16.03 / 13								32 +5
Robb, Divided in Death	02.08.04 / 1	3 ++		4 ++	19 ++	3 ++	13 ++	93 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 52	3 =	xxx..		70 =	xxx..	10 -3	x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK)	06.29.03 / 33								8 +8	x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA)	07.06.03 / 26										14 +
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.15	SFC 02.08	WP 02.08	USAT 02.04	PW 02.09 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.09	Amz (02.09)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 01.31	Australia: Dymocks (02.09)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.09)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.28.03 / 20	7 +			xxx..	xxx..	3 +2				xxx..
Gibson, Pattern Recognition [tpb]	02.01.04 / 2										18 +13
Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight	12.07.03 / 10	xxx..			138 -23	xxx..	xxx..				xxx..
King, From a Buick 8	12.07.03 / 10	x			144 -52	xxx..
Koontz, By the Light of the Moon	11.16.03 / 13	x			135 -27	xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 12	31 -4	xxx..		62 =			x
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday (UK)	01.25.04 / 3								6 =
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday (AUSTRALIA)	10.19.03 / 3									10 +
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 2: Grim Tuesday (AUSTRALIA)	01.11.04 / 4									3 +
Nylund, Halo: First Strike	12.14.03 / 9	xxx..			104 -11	xxx..
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)							xxx..		2 +1
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)							xxx..		1 =
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)									3 -1
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 1: Dragon's Nest (AUSTRALIA)	02.01.04 / 2									5 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)									38 +5	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		10 =	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)									7 +6	7 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 79	2 +1	xxx..		132 -15		14 -5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)									34 +16	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)									10 +8	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 139	6 -2	xxx..		147 -14		x
Smith, The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare [tpb]	11.16.03 / 13	14 -2			146 -12						xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit					106 -9	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Box Set	02.23.03 / 23				xxx..			80 -9	xxx..
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [tpb]		x			117 -19		xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.15	SFC 02.08	WP 02.08	USAT 02.04	PW 02.09 (ch 01.01)	Book Sense 02.09	Amz (02.09)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 01.31	Australia: Dymocks (02.09)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.09)
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.