SFFH on General Lists

19 July 2004

Two fifty year old classics of SF, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, show up prominently on lists again this week, Asimov's among the top 50 on 3 lists, Bradbury's in the top 75 on 2 lists. Stephen King's Song of Susannah is still doing well on 6 lists in its 16th week on this chart (including pre-publication rankings). Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club is still on 5 lists this week, its 12th week on the chart. BookSense hasn't updated its chart in the last week. The link to BookScan, a site presenting Nielsen Bookscan data from the UK, now redirects to another site; if this change is permanent (such data from the US is available by paid subscription only), that column will be replaced here by the Top 100 rankings from Amazon UK. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.25	SFC 07.18	WP 07.18	USAT 07.11	PW 07.19 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 07.09	Amz (07.20)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 07.03	Australia: Dymocks (07.20)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	30x3	10x4	150	15x5	15x6	100	50x3	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Colfer, The Supernaturalist	05.10.04 / 11	x				6 ++
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club	05.03.04 / 12	12 -1	4 -1	xxx	60 +22	12 =	[ 5 ]	32 -8			xxx..
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla	05.25.03 / 48	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xx			56 +
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah	03.22.04 / 16	8 -1	xx	10 -2	29 -8	6 =	[ 8 ]	22 +5			52 -24
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower	06.07.04 / 6							57 -5			61 +
Koontz, The Taking	05.24.04 / 9	20 -4		xxx..	xx	x		xxx..
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 46	1 +1			80 -2	2 +	[ 4 ]	xxx..			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02.09.03 / 75	2 -1	xxx..		73 +1	xxx..	[ 11 ]	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		9 +						xxx..
Stewart/Riddell, Beyond the Deepwoods	07.05.04 / 3	8 +2			149 ++		[ 2 ]
Taylor, Shadowmancer	04.26.04 / 12	xx			xxx..	5 +		xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.25	SFC 07.18	WP 07.18	USAT 07.11	PW 07.19 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 07.09	Amz (07.20)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 07.03	Australia: Dymocks (07.20)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Asimov, I, Robot	06.21.04 / 5				44 +22		[ 10 ]	50 ++			44 ++
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 20				75 -5		[ 7 ]	58 +10			xxx..
Erikson, Midnight Tides (UK) [tpb]	07.12.04 / 2										13 -1
Goodkind, Naked Empire	06.14.04 / 6	xx			105 -12	xx					xx
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 35	xxx..	xxx..		41 -2	14 ++		xxx..			xx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 9	22 -5	x		32 -1	6 +1	[ 5 ]	26 -6
Orwell, Animal Farm	07.20.03 / 16				114 +1						xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 19				85 -1			x			xxx
Reaves/Perry, Star Wars: Medstar 1: Battle Surgeons	07.12.04 / 2				117 -10
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 3: Isle of the Dead (AUSTRALIA)	05.24.04 / 9									3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)									[ 4 ]	8 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 101	2 =	xxx..		78 +2		[ 1 ]
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 3							71 +13
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) [tpb]	07.19.04 / 1									5 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 156	8 -2	xxx..		142 -36		[ 6 ]
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		9 -2	xxx..		xxx
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Lone Drow	06.14.04 / 6				145 -11						xx
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.25	SFC 07.18	WP 07.18	USAT 07.11	PW 07.19 (ch 05.01)	Book Sense 07.09	Amz (07.20)	UK: Book Scan wk ending 07.03	Australia: Dymocks (07.20)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.20)
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.