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Bestsellers 1 Mar
J.D. Robb
Koontz & Anderson

Bestsellers 22 Feb
Kazuo Ishiguro

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2005 Monitor Archive


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KEY
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:

March
   
SFFH on General Lists
8 March 2005

Already selling for several weeks but newly charted here is Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore (Knopf), a surreal novel about a teenage boy searching for his family. It reaches #1 this week on San Francisco's hardcover fiction list.

Debuting on Amazon UK is Richard (K.) Morgan's new novel Woken Furies (Gollancz), ranking impressively today at #10.

J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince remains at #1 on the all 3 Amazon lists.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.13
WP
03.06
SFC
03.06
USAT
02.27
PW
02.28
(ch 02.21)
Amz
(03.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.08)
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 / 26 4 +2     xxx..   xxx..      
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.06.05 / 2 6 +                
Crichton, State of Fear 12.13.04 / 13 10 -4 6 -2 x 53 -18 [ 5 ] 37 -10     xxx..
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 30 1 =     xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Goodkind, Chainfire 12.27.04 / 11 13 -1 xxx..   122 -37 [ 11 ] xxx..     xxx..
Goodkind, Chainfire (UK) 01.23.05 / 6             63 + 9 +  
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.20.05 / 3             25 -8    
Luceno, Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil 02.06.05 / 5 21 -4     x          
Morgan, Woken Furies (UK) 03.06.05 / 1             10 ++    
Murakami, Kafka on the Shore 03.06.05 / 1 32 ++   1 ++            
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday (AUSTRALIA) 01.23.05 / 6               3 +  
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 2           84 -29      
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 79 2 +1     xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Robb, Survivor in Death 01.30.05 / 6 6 -1 9 = xxx 79 -39 [ 7 ] xxx..     xxx..
Roth, The Plot Against America 09.20.04 / 25 30 -1 xxx.. 8 + xxx..   xx     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 12           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 11             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 12                 1 =
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.13
WP
03.06
SFC
03.06
USAT
02.27
PW
02.28
(ch 02.21)
Amz
(03.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 64 5 =     xxx..         xxx..
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli [tpb] 02.06.05 / 5     4 +1            
Harrison, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead 01.23.05 / 7       136 -28   xxx..      
Koontz/Anderson, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book One: Prodigal Son 02.06.05 / 5 7 -4 x   24 -10 [ 3 ]        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 68 xxx..   xxx.. 77 +2   xxx..     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.13.05 / 4             6 +3    
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 42 16 = 9 -1 10 + 32 -5 [ 4 ] 40 -8     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 10             9 +3    
Nix, The Creature in the Case (UK) 02.27.05 / 2             28 +6    
Nix, Lirael (UK) 07.26.04 / 5             89 -13    
Robb, Visions in Death 02.06.05 / 5 31 -21 xxx..   68 -29 [ 10 ]        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 36 xxx..   xxx.. 109 -9   xxx..      
Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand [tpb] 08.16.04 / 23 9 -3                
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 5 34 =   3 -1 128 -23          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.13
WP
03.06
SFC
03.06
USAT
02.27
PW
02.28
(ch 02.21)
Amz
(03.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.08)
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.  

 
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