SFFH on General Lists

17 May 2004

Karen Joy Fowler's associational novel The Jane Austen Book Club debuts on 3 more lists, to rank this week on every US list charted here. UK's BookScan site hasn't updated this week, so without a lot of the YA books it tracks, this week's table below is shorter than usual. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.23	SFC 05.16	WP 05.16	USAT 05.09	PW 05.17 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 05.17	Amz (05.18)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 05.01	Australia: Dymocks (05.18)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	30x3	10x4	150	15x5	15x6	100	50x3	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Colfer, The Supernaturalist	05.09.04 / 2	7 +2					9 -2
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4: The Ironwood Tree	04.11.04 / 6	5 -2			x		5 +1
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club	05.02.04 / 3	15 +10	4 -1	9 ++	95 ++	14 ++	6 =	15 +24			xx
Funke, Inkheart	10.12.03 / 30	xxx..			xxx..	10 +	xxx	xxx..			xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World	05.02.04 / 3	22 ++			107 ++			94 -21			x
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah	03.21.04 / 7							12 +42			54 +
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 37	2 -1			77 -11	1 +	3 +2	xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eragon (UK)	01.11.04 / 19									7 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 66	4 +4	xxx..		xxx..	6 +	xxx..	x
Stephenson, The Confusion	03.07.04 / 10	31 -11	x	xxx	x	xx	x	97 -48			xx
Taylor, Shadowmancer	04.25.04 / 4	3 +1			134 -51		6 -3	25 +
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.23	SFC 05.16	WP 05.16	USAT 05.09	PW 05.17 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 05.17	Amz (05.18)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 05.01	Australia: Dymocks (05.18)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA)	05.02.04 / 2										18 +
Atwood, Oryx and Crake [tpb]	04.11.04 / 6	xxx	x		xx		11 +2
Farmer, The House of the Scorpion	05.09.04 / 2						10 +1
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 26	xxx..	xxx..		65 +11			x
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 2: Shadowgate (AUSTRALIA)	02.15.04 / 14									6 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 92	7 +2	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 147	2 +5	xxx..		xxx..		15 +
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.23	SFC 05.16	WP 05.16	USAT 05.09	PW 05.17 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 05.17	Amz (05.18)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 05.01	Australia: Dymocks (05.18)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.18)
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.