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Bestsellers 11 Jan
Laurell K. Hamilton
Audrey Niffenegger
J.K. Rowling

Bestsellers 4 Jan
Terry Goodkind

2004 Archive



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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:

January

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SFFH on General Lists
18 January 2005


After a couple weeks of Amazon pre-sales, Terry Goodkind's Chainfire (Tor) debuts impressively on 4 print lists, as high as #3 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly.

The trade paperback of Stephen King's The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (Scribner) debuts on 3 lists this week. Also debuting, on the USA Today list, the paperback reprint of Todd & Anne McCaffrey's Dragon's Kin (Del Rey), and the paperback original Sister of the Dead by Barb & J.C. Hendee (Roc).

J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince remains at #1 on all the Amazon lists.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.23
WP
01.16
SFC
01.16
USAT
01.09
PW
01.17
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(01.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.18)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 19 6 +2     xxx.. x xxx..      
Chabon, The Final Solution 11.15.04 / 10 xxx..   3 +1     xxx..      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 08.02.04 / 25 18 -4 xxx.. xxx.. 142 -61 x 87 -23      
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 24             19 -8   xx
Crichton, State of Fear 12.13.04 / 6 4 -2 1 = 4 +2 17 -8 4 -1 16 =     35 -2
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 23 1 =     x x xxx..     xxx..
Goodkind, Chainfire 12.27.04 / 4 3 ++ 5 ++   8 ++ 3 ++ 44 -26     27 +3
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 03.22.04 / 42 26 +9 xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. x     xxx..
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 06.07.04 / 32 25 = xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. x     xxx..
Koontz, Life Expectancy 12.13.04 / 6 14 -10 xxx..   114 -53 x xxx..      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia 11.22.04 / 8 8 +1                
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 72 2 =     x x xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 08.16.04 / 21             55 + xxx.. xxx..
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 18 17 -4 xxx.. 2 -1 102 -29 x 31 -4     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 5           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 4             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 5                 1 =
Stroud, The Golem's Eye 08.30.04 / 17 10 +     xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.23
WP
01.16
SFC
01.16
USAT
01.09
PW
01.17
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(01.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.18)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 57 10 +     xxx.. xxx..       xxx..
Hamilton, Seduced by Moonlight 01.09.05 / 2       106 +31          
Hendee/Hendee, Sister of the Dead 01.16.05 / 1       132 ++          
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla [tpb] 01.16.05 / 1 23 ++     34 ++ 11 ++        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 61 xxx..   xxx.. 93 -43 x xxx..     xxx..
McCaffrey/McCaffrey, Dragon's Kin 01.16.05 / 1       122 ++          
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 35 19 -4 xxx.. 5 + 39 -8 3 +3 38 +7     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 3             10 =    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.09.05 / 2               4 -2  
Rodda, Deltora Quest Series 3, Book 4: Sister of the South (AUSTRALIA) 10.18.04 / 14               5 +1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 116 xxx..   xxx.. 125 -19          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 19             xxx.. 6 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 8                 38 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 29 xxx..   xxx.. 55 -22 xxx.. xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.23
WP
01.16
SFC
01.16
USAT
01.09
PW
01.17
(ch 01.01)
Amz
(01.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.18)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.18)
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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