SFFH on General Lists

12 April 2004

Two new books are runners-up on the New York Times fiction hardcover list: Raymond E. Feist's King of Foxes (Eos) at #20, and Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis' 1634: The Galileo Affair (Baen) at #29. Book 4 of Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black's The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Ironwood Tree (Simon & Schuster), debuts on children's lists at BookScan and BookSense (UK), and ranks #90 on the the composite USA Today. (USA Today changed the link to its bestseller list; the new link is bookslist.usatoday.com.) In paperback, debuts include the trade edition of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (Anchor), Raymond E. Feist's Talon of the Silver Hawk (Eos), and Weber & Ringo's March to the Stars (Baen>). (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.18	SFC 04.11	WP 04.11	USAT 04.04	PW 04.12 (ch 04.01)	Book Sense 04.12	Amz (04.13)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 04.03	Australia: Dymocks (04.13)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.13)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	30x3	10x4	150	15x5	15x6	100	50x3	10x4	100
Hardcovers
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4: The Ironwood Tree	04.11.04 / 1				90 ++		4 ++
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4: The Ironwood Tree (UK)	04.11.04 / 1								15 ++
Feist, King of Foxes	04.04.04 / 2	20 ++			144 ++			x
Flint/Dennis, 1634: The Galileo Affair	04.11.04 / 1	29 ++
Funke, Inkheart	10.12.03 / 27	xxx..			xxx..	10 +	15 -6	xxx..			xxx..
Gemmell, Swords of Night and Day (UK)	04.04.04 / 2								50 ++	9 =
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli	03.28.04 / 3		3 =
Jordan, New Spring	12.28.03 / 16	31 -14		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Kay, The Last Light of the Sun (CANADA)	02.22.04 / 6										38 +19
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 8							xxx..			27 +
Nix, Abhorsen (UK)	04.04.04 / 2								5 +10
Nix, Lirael (UK)	09.07.03 / 6								17 +
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 32	2 =			39 +	1 +	6 -4	xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eragon (UK)	01.11.04 / 14								50 -10	2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 61	7 =	xxx..		xx	7 +	xx	42 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK)	06.29.03 / 42								45 -9	xxx..
Saul, Black Creek Crossing	03.28.04 / 3	26 -6
Stephenson, The Confusion	03.07.04 / 5							22 +67			13 +13
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.18	SFC 04.11	WP 04.11	USAT 04.04	PW 04.12 (ch 04.01)	Book Sense 04.12	Amz (04.13)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 04.03	Australia: Dymocks (04.13)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.13)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, Oryx and Crake [tpb]	04.11.04 / 1				127 ++		12 ++
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (UK) [tpb]	04.04.04 / 2								24 +7
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (AUSTRALIA) [tpb]	03.14.04 / 5									6 =
Chabon, Summerland [tpb]	02.29.04 / 7						9 -2
Colfer, Artemis Fowl (UK)	04.27.03 / 21								49 +	xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK)	04.04.04 / 2								9 +20
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf (UK)	03.07.04 / 6								13 -12
Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk	04.11.04 / 1				124 ++
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.28.03 / 29	xx			xxx..	8 +	7 -1				xxx..
Gemmell, White Wolf (UK)	04.11.04 / 1								41 ++
Gibson, Pattern Recognition [tpb]	02.01.04 / 9		xxx..		xxx..		xxx..				34 -5
Jordan, New Spring (AUSTRALIA) [tpb]	03.14.04 / 5									10 =
King, Four Past Midnight	03.14.04 / 5	22 -5			49 +	x					xx
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 21	xxx..	xxx..		63 +			x
Nix, Sabriel (UK)	06.08.03 / 4								44 +
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)							xxx..		11 +2
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)							xxx..		6 +3
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)									10 +1
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 1: Dragon's Nest (AUSTRALIA)	02.01.04 / 11									6 =
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 2: Shadowgate (AUSTRALIA)	02.15.04 / 9									5 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)									22 +5	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 88	xxx	xxx..		xx		13 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)									21 =	xx
Stewart/Riddell, Muddle Earth (UK)	03.14.04 / 5								29 +3
Weber/Ringo, March to the Stars	04.11.04 / 1				98 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.18	SFC 04.11	WP 04.11	USAT 04.04	PW 04.12 (ch 04.01)	Book Sense 04.12	Amz (04.13)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 04.03	Australia: Dymocks (04.13)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.13)
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.