SFFH on General Lists

14 June 2004

Steven Barnes' new Star Wars novel, The Cestus Deception (Del Rey), debuts on 2 lists this week. Dean Koontz's The Taking remains on 4 lists this week; Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club remains on 8 lists. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah, still ranks high on Amazon lists but hasn't yet placed on newspaper or magazine lists. Paperback debuts this week include Terry Goodkind's Naked Empire (Tor), on 2 lists, and R.A. Salvatore's The Lone Drow (Wizards of the Coast), on 1 list. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.20	SFC 06.13	WP 06.13	USAT 06.06	PW 06.14 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 06.14	Amz (06.14)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 06.05	Australia: Dymocks (06.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (06.14)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	30x3	10x4	150	15x5	15x6	100	50x3	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Barnes, Star Wars: The Cestus Deception	06.14.04 / 1	21 ++			146 ++
Colfer, The Supernaturalist	05.10.04 / 6	8 +1					13 -3
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club	05.03.04 / 7	9 +4	2 +1	8 +1	91 -17	10 =	4 =	40 -16			20 +
Gingrich/Forstchen, Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War	06.22.03 / 10	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		98 -10
Gingrich/Forstchen, Grant Comes East	06.07.04 / 2							45 -17
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli	03.29.04 / 11	xxx..	9 -2					xxx..
Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon (AUSTRALIA)	06.07.04 / 2									3 =
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla	05.25.03 / 44	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	97 -14			xxx..
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah	03.22.04 / 11							8 -7			14 -11
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower	06.07.04 / 2							x			51 ++
Koontz, The Taking	05.24.04 / 4	5 -1		7 -1	36 -16	4 =		xx
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 11							34 +20			x
Nix, Abhorsen (UK)	04.05.04 / 9								50 -7
Nix, Lirael (UK)	09.07.03 / 13								47 -5
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 41	2 =			90 -15	1 +	6 -4	xx			xxx..
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky	06.07.04 / 2							96 -49
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK)	05.03.04 / 5								4 =	5 =	52 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 70	6 -1	xxx..		105 +8	xxx..	15 +	74 +8
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK)	06.29.03 / 49								22 +13	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		9 +						xxx..
Stephenson, The Confusion	03.08.04 / 12	xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			36 +
Taylor, Shadowmancer	04.26.04 / 8	5 -4			119 -53	2 ++	7 -6	xxx
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.20	SFC 06.13	WP 06.13	USAT 06.06	PW 06.14 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 06.14	Amz (06.14)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 06.05	Australia: Dymocks (06.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (06.14)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA)	05.03.04 / 6										30 -8
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 15				116 +13
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK)	04.05.04 / 9								34 -2
Goodkind, Naked Empire	06.14.04 / 1	34 ++			51 ++
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 30	xxx..	xxx..		62 -6			68 -4
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 4	25 +5	7 ++		33 +15	7 =	8 +1	36 -1
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 2: Grim Tuesday (UK)	06.07.04 / 2								12 +17
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 14				115 -3		x	91 ++
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK)	05.03.04 / 6								1 =	10 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)							xxx..		32 -7
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)							xxx..		28 -7
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)									33 -9
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA)	05.24.04 / 4									1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)									29 +	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)									8 +1	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 96	2 +4	xxx..		72 +15		3 +10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)									19 +22	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)									5 +1	6 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 151	1 =	xxx..		41 +2		1 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		5 +	xxx..		133 +15		11 +
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb]	10.20.02 / 18				xxx..			48 +1
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Lone Drow	06.14.04 / 1				83 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.20	SFC 06.13	WP 06.13	USAT 06.06	PW 06.14 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 06.14	Amz (06.14)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 06.05	Australia: Dymocks (06.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (06.14)
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.