SFFH on General Lists

8 February 2005

Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson's Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book One: Prodigal Son (Bantam, mass market) debuts on 4 lists this week, ranking as high as #2 on New York Times' fiction paperback list. Also new this week: James Luceno's Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil (Del Rey) on 3 lists, and Todd McCaffrey's Dragonsblood (Del Rey) on the same 3 lists lower down. Paperback reprints debuting this week are J.D. Robb's Visions in Death (Berkley) on 4 lists, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin) on 2 lists. J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince remains at #1 on all the Amazon lists. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.13	WP 02.06	SFC 02.06	USAT 01.30	PW 02.07 (ch 01.01)	Amz (02.08)	UK: Amz UK (02.08)	Australia: Dymocks (02.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.08)
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 / 22	5 +1			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide	02.06.05 / 1	6 ++
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	08.02.04 / 28	30 -8	xxx..	xx	xxx	xxx..	x
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK)	08.09.04 / 27							84 -65		xxx..
Crichton, State of Fear	12.13.04 / 9	5 -1	3 =	10 +	36 -13	4 =	26 -10			xx
Farmer, The Sea of Trolls	12.27.04 / 4	9 =
Funke, Dragon Rider	08.16.04 / 26	1 =			x	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Goodkind, Chainfire	12.27.04 / 7	7 -1	10 -2		46 -21	5 =	86 +1			xxx
Goodkind, Chainfire (UK)	01.23.05 / 3							15 +10	7 ++
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah	03.22.04 / 45	34 -4	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Koontz, Life Expectancy	12.13.04 / 9	33 -13	xxx..		xxx	xxx..	xxx..
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia	11.22.04 / 9	4 +
Luceno, Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil	02.06.05 / 1	9 ++			65 ++	7 ++
McCaffrey, Dragonsblood	02.06.05 / 1	16 ++			140 ++	14 ++
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday (AUSTRALIA)	01.23.05 / 3								1 =
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 75	2 +1			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Robb, Survivor in Death	01.30.05 / 2						41 -6			x
Roth, The Plot Against America	09.20.04 / 21	19 -5	xxx..	6 -1	x	x	43 +8			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 8						1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 7							1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA)	12.20.04 / 8									1 =
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.13	WP 02.06	SFC 02.06	USAT 01.30	PW 02.07 (ch 01.01)	Amz (02.08)	UK: Amz UK (02.08)	Australia: Dymocks (02.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barker, Abarat	10.04.04 / 8	7 +
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb]	06.28.04 / 11	9 -1
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.28.03 / 60	5 +2			xxx..	xxx..				xxx..
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli [tpb]	02.06.05 / 1			7 ++
Harrison, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead	01.23.05 / 3				70 ++		x
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla [tpb]	01.16.05 / 4	x			88 -31	x				77 ++
Koontz/Anderson, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book One: Prodigal Son	02.06.05 / 1	2 ++	6 ++		5 ++	3 ++
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 64	xxx..		xxx..	98 -26	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 38	17 -4	x	x	38 -7	6 -3	22 +11			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.02.05 / 6							12 -1
Nix, Abhorsen (UK)	01.30.05 / 2							83 -12
Paolini, Eragon (UK)	01.09.05 / 5								7 +3
Robb, Visions in Death	02.06.05 / 1	6 ++	10 ++		12 ++	10 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 119	xxx..		xxx..	141 -27
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK)	07.19.04 / 22							xxx..	5 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 32	xxx..		xxx..	73 -15	xxx..	xxx..
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb]	08.16.04 / 19	6 +4				xxx..
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb]	02.06.05 / 1			10 ++	92 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.13	WP 02.06	SFC 02.06	USAT 01.30	PW 02.07 (ch 01.01)	Amz (02.08)	UK: Amz UK (02.08)	Australia: Dymocks (02.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.08)
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.