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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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11 October 2004


Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams (Berkley) debuts on 5 US charts this week, ranking #2 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly and in the top 10 on the others. It also debuts on the Amazon list in the UK, where its first edition is a paperback.

Stephen King's The Dark Tower holds the #1 position on 3 US lists. Philip Roth's The Plot Against America debuts on 2 more US lists and rises on several others, ranking #1 in San Francisco.

Beginning this week, the New York Times adds a fourth Children's Books list for series books, so that individual volumes of Harry Potter, Redwall, Artemis Fowl, etc., are no longer ranked on the hardcover and paperback lists. For the moment, series rankings are not included in this chart.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.17
WP
10.10
SFC
10.10
USAT
10.03
PW
10.11
(ch 09.01)
Book
Sense

(10.05)
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
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 / 5               35 -17    
Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War 09.27.04 / 3 4 +5     x            
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 5 3 +4     129 -21 xxx [ 6 ] xx      
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil 08.23.04 / 8 23 -6 xxx..   x xx   xxx..     xxx
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 11 5 = 8 -2 2 -1 30 -14 7 -3 [ 5 ] 16 =      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 10               11 -4   6 +1
DiTerlizzi/Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 5: The Wrath of Mulgarath 09.20.04 / 4 x     64 -24   [ 4 ]        
Feist, Exile's Return (UK) 08.23.04 / 8               x 10 =  
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 9 2 +2     94 -16 xxx [ 5 ] xx     xx
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams 08.30.04 / 7 2 ++ 3 ++ 9 ++ 6 ++ 2 ++ [ 9 ] 57 -16     14 +
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Battle of Corrin 08.09.04 / 10 28 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xx xx   xxx..     xxx..
Kerr, The Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure 10.11.04 / 1 7 ++                  
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 28 21 -5 xxx.. xxx.. 98 -31 xxx..   48 +19     xxx
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 18 1 = 1 = 7 -5 5 -3 1 = [ 4 ] 7 +13     9 =
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (UK) 07.26.04 / 9               33 -14 xx  
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 58 5 +     141 -25 xxx   xxx..     xxx..
Pierce, Trickster's Queen 09.27.04 / 3 1 ++     48 ++   [ 2 ] xx      
Pierce, Trickster's Queen (AUSTRALIA) 09.06.04 / 6                 4 =  
Pratchett/Kidby, The Art of Discworld (UK) 10.04.04 / 2               91 -7    
Pratchett, Going Postal 09.27.04 / 2 17 ++     92 ++     xx      
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 08.16.04 / 9               3 -2    
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 15               93 -21 xxx.. xxx..
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 4 6 +7 9 ++ 1 +7 38 ++ 8 +7 [ 1 ] 3 +3     8 +2
Roth, The Plot Against America (UK) 09.27.04 / 3               34 -11    
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Two Swords 10.11.04 / 1             62 ++     17 ++
Stephenson, The System of the World 04.19.04 / 6 18 -9 x 4 -1 93 -62 x [ 11 ] 23 +25     12 +47
Stroud, The Golem's Eye 08.30.04 / 7 6 +2     xxx   [ 12 ] 97 +      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.17
WP
10.10
SFC
10.10
USAT
10.03
PW
10.11
(ch 09.01)
Book
Sense

(10.05)
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barker, Abarat 10.04.04 / 2 8 +2                  
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 32       136 -36     xxx..     xxx..
Brennan, Faerie Wars [tpb] 09.27.04 / 2 4 +                  
Canavan, The High Lord 09.13.04 / 3       xxx           32 ++
Colfer, The Supernaturalist (AUSTRALIA) 08.16.04 / 9                 8 =  
Eddings/Eddings, The Elder Gods 10.11.04 / 1       137 ++            
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 44 9 -5     xxx.. xxx..         xxx..
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams (UK) 10.11.04 / 1               25 ++    
Maguire, Mirror Mirror [tpb] 10.11.04 / 1       138 ++            
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 47 xxx..   xxx.. 54 -3 xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (CANADA) [tpb] 08.23.04 / 5                   30 +41
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 21 24 =   xxx.. 57 -12 9 +1 [ 6 ] x      
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK) 10.04.04 / 2               61 +34 3 =  
Reaves/Perry, Star Wars: Medstar 2: Jedi Healer 10.11.04 / 1       97 ++            
Rice, Blood Canticle 09.13.04 / 5 x     119 -44            
Robb, Divided in Death 09.13.04 / 5 33 -21 xxx..   87 -49 x          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 13               xxx.. 6 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 15 x   xxx.. 49 -21 xxx [ 8 ] xxx..      
Stephenson, Quicksilver [tpb] 10.04.04 / 2     5 ++ 145 -46   [ 13 ]       x
Straub, lost boy lost girl 10.11.04 / 1       127 ++            
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 7 6 -1       xxx          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.17
WP
10.10
SFC
10.10
USAT
10.03
PW
10.11
(ch 09.01)
Book
Sense

(10.05)
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
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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