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Bestsellers 27 Sep
Susanna Clarke
Terry Brooks
Barry & Pearson

Bestsellers 20 Sep
Susanna Clarke
Stephen King
Neal Stephenson
DiTerlizzi & Black



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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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SFFH on General Lists
4 October 2004


Stephen King's The Dark Tower (Donald M. Grant/Scribner) debuts on 5 US lists this week, at #1 on 3 of them including New York Times and Publishers Weekly, and at #2 on the other 2. Neal Stephenson's The System of the World (William Morrow) debuts on the same 5 US lists, ranking as high as #3 in San Francisco, and on Amazon's UK list (where King has already appeared). And Philip Roth's The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin) debuts on 3 lists.

San Francisco's list has genre titles in the top 3 fiction hardcover spots: Susanna Clarke, Stephen King, Neal Stephenson.

The trade paperback of Stephenson's Quicksilver (Perennial) debuts on 3 lists. Added this week is Stephen Woodworth's Through Violet Eyes (Dell), having already appeared on a couple lists for a couple weeks.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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10.03
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USAT
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PW
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Australia:
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Canada:
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 15x6 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Banks, The Algebraist (UK) 09.06.04 / 4               18 -1    
Barker, Abarat II: Days of Magic, Nights of War (UK) 10.04.04 / 1               96 ++    
Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War 09.27.04 / 2 9 ++     124 ++   x        
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 4 7 -4     108 -32 xx 6 -2 x      
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil 08.23.04 / 7 17 -5 xxx   83 -6 x xxx xxx     xx
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 10 5 -1 6 -4 1 = 16 -2 4 = 5 -2 16 -5      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 9               7 +2   7 +9
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 5: The Wrath of Mulgarath 09.20.04 / 3 2 -1     40 -9   4 -2        
Feist, Exile's Return (UK) 08.23.04 / 7               77 -40 10 ++  
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 8 4 =     78 -4 xx 5 -2 x     x
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams 08.30.04 / 6           9 ++ 41 -29     x
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Battle of Corrin 08.09.04 / 9 26 -7 xxx.. xxx.. x x xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Hinton, Hawkes Harbor 10.04.04 / 1 28 ++                  
Jacques, Rakkety Tam 09.06.04 / 5 6 -1     76 +6   10 -4 xxx      
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 27 16 +8 xxx.. xxx.. 67 + xxx.. xxx.. 67 =     xx
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (UK) 06.21.04 / 10               71 +23    
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 17 1 ++ 1 ++ 2 ++ 2 ++ 1 ++ 4 -3 20 -11     9 -3
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (UK) 07.26.04 / 8               19 -11 x  
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 57 x     116 -12 xx x xxx..     xxx..
Pierce, Trickster's Queen 09.27.04 / 2           2 ++ x      
Pierce, Trickster's Queen (AUSTRALIA) 09.06.04 / 5                 4 -2  
Pratchett/Kidby, The Art of Discworld (UK) 10.04.04 / 1               84 ++    
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 08.16.04 / 8               1 =    
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 14               72 + xxx.. xxx..
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 3 13 ++   8 ++   15 ++ 1 +6 6 -2     10 +13
Roth, The Plot Against America (UK) 09.27.04 / 2               23 +6    
Stephenson, The System of the World 04.19.04 / 5 9 ++ 9 ++ 3 ++ 31 ++ 8 ++ 11 -2 48 -22     59 -51
Stephenson, The System of the World (UK) 10.04.04 / 1               85 ++    
Stroud, The Golem's Eye 08.30.04 / 6 8 -1     xx   12 -2 x      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.10
WP
10.03
SFC
10.03
USAT
09.26
PW
10.04
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

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Amz
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UK:
Amz UK
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Australia:
Dymocks
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Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.05)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barker, Abarat 10.04.04 / 1 10 ++                  
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 31       100 +10   xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus 09.13.04 / 4 xx     109 -24            
Colfer, The Supernaturalist (AUSTRALIA) 08.16.04 / 8                 8 -5  
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 43 4 +     xxx.. xxx.. xx       xxx..
Hamilton, Cerulean Sins 09.13.04 / 4 xx     111 -16            
MacHale, Pendragon Book Five: Blackwater [tpb] 08.09.04 / 9 6 +3     xxx..   xxx..        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 46 xxx..   xxx.. 51 -2 xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (CANADA) [tpb] 08.23.04 / 4                   71 -43
Monteleone/Monteleone, From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness 09.13.04 / 4       104 -14            
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 20 24 +2   xxx.. 45 -1 10 -1 6 -1 65 -2      
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 27       145 -7           xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 30       122 +8   xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK) 10.04.04 / 1               95 ++ 3 ++  
Rice, Blood Canticle 09.13.04 / 4 32 -1     75 -11            
Robb, Divided in Death 09.13.04 / 4 12 -2 xxx   38 -11 11 -1          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 112 3 +1   xxx.. x   xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 12               xxx.. 6 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 14 1 =   xxx.. 28 -6 xx 8 -1 xxx..      
Stephenson, Quicksilver [tpb] 10.04.04 / 1       99 ++   13 ++       72 ++
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 6 5 =       xx xx        
Woodworth, Through Violet Eyes 10.04.04 / 1 30 ++     84 ++            
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.10
WP
10.03
SFC
10.03
USAT
09.26
PW
10.04
(ch 08.01)
Book
Sense

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Amz
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UK:
Amz UK
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Australia:
Dymocks
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Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.05)
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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