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The table compiles selected SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists.
See #Key below.

from LOCUS Magazine

Bestseller lists compiled from sales at specialty stores:

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9 August 2004


China Miéville's Iron Council debuts impressively at #7 on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction hardcover list this week.. though perhaps his signings in Berkeley and San Francisco the last week of July had something to do with it.

Also debuting, in advance of publication, is Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's next Dune novel, The Battle of Corrin, on two Amazon lists today; it's due for release next week, August 17.

The latest in D.J. MacHale's Pendragon YA fantasy series, Black Water (Aladdin), debuts on 2 children's lists this week.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.15
WP
08.08
SFC
08.08
USAT
08.01
PW
08.09
(ch 07.01)
Book
Sense

08.06
Amz
(08.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.10)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.10)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 15x6 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Bakker, The Warrior-Prophet (CANADA) 06.28.04 / 5                   76 -45
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 08.02.04 / 2             29 -14      
Eddings/Eddings, The Treasured One (UK) 07.26.04 / 3               81 +4    
Fforde, Something Rotten 08.09.04 / 1             69 ++      
Fforde, Something Rotten (UK) 07.26.04 / 3               56 -28    
Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club 05.03.04 / 15 15 -1 xxx.. 5 +2 110 -32 11 +4 6 = x     xx
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Battle of Corrin 08.09.04 / 1             30 ++     58 ++
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 19 10 +1 xxx xxx.. 70 -25 9 = xx x     26 +13
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (UK) 06.21.04 / 7               95 -65    
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 9             43 +23     31 -15
Koontz, Odd Thomas (UK) 01.18.04 / 3               83 ++    
Miéville, Iron Council 08.09.04 / 1     7 ++              
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 49 1 =     98 -10 xxx 2 = xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 12               x xxx.. 28 +
Robb, Visions in Death 08.02.04 / 2             87 -38      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 78 3 -1   xxx.. 91 -1 xxx.. xx 42 +      
Stewart/Riddell, Beyond the Deepwoods 07.05.04 / 6 7 +2     xxx   3 +2        
Taylor, Shadowmancer 04.26.04 / 13 8 +     xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.15
WP
08.08
SFC
08.08
USAT
08.01
PW
08.09
(ch 07.01)
Book
Sense

08.06
Amz
(08.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.10)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.10)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Asimov, I, Robot 06.21.04 / 8 x     57 -25 12 -5 8 -1 xxx     xxx
Asimov, I, Robot (UK) 08.02.04 / 2               43 +15    
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 23       82 -12   10 = xxx     xxx..
Canavan, The Novice (UK) 07.26.04 / 2               67 +    
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (UK) [tpb] 08.09.04 / 1                   72 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf (UK) 03.08.04 / 10               53 ++    
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 37 xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. 11 =       xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.14.04 / 9 xxx..     150 -18 xxx..         xxx..
MacHale, Pendragon Book Five: Blackwater [tpb] 08.09.04 / 1 3 ++         9 ++        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 38 xxx..   xxx.. 38 = xx   xxx..     xxx..
Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings [tpb] 08.09.04 / 1       126 ++            
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 12 19 -2   9 -3 31 -4 6 +2 5 +2 33 +1      
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 19       139 -17           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 22       101 -18   xxx.. xxx..     x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   15 +        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 104 1 +1   xxx.. 86 +8   5 -1        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 4               54 +6 1 +1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 1                   5 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 6             9 +45      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 159 7 +1   xxx.. xx   14 -2        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   9 +   xxx.. xxx..   xx        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.15
WP
08.08
SFC
08.08
USAT
08.01
PW
08.09
(ch 07.01)
Book
Sense

08.06
Amz
(08.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.10)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.10)
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.  



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