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10.12 Bestsellers

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Bestsellers Archive
10.05
09.28
09.21
09.14
09.07
08.31
08.24
08.17
08.10
08.03
07.27
07.20
07.13
07.06
06.29
06.22
06.15
06.08
06.01
05.25
05.18
05.11
05.04
04.27
04.20
04.13
04.06
03.30
03.23
03.16
03.09
03.02
02.23
02.16
02.09
02.02
01.26
01.19
01.12
01.05
..
1.06.02
...
1.07.01
...
1.04.00

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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:

October

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SFFH on General Lists
12 October 2003


Added this week is Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife (MacAdam/Cage), which has been on bestseller lists for a couple three weeks now, but which, despite the title, sounded too much like a literary or romance novel with only incidental fantastic elements for reference here; but the prominent inclusion of the book on Faren Miller's review list for the December issue of Locus Magazine, as well as trade and reader reviews (though the latter are mixed) on the Amazon site, have persuaded us to track it here. It's on 3 lists this week.

Brian Jacques' latest Redwall novel, Loamhedge (Philomel), debuts on three lists this week. Christopher Paolini's Eragon ranks #1 on Publishers Weekly's children's list for October. Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver debuts on the Washington Post list at #2 this week, to rank on 7 lists altogether.

The paperback of Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord is placing on lists, as is the paperback reprint of Anne Rice's Blackwood Farm (three lists), a new Star Wars novel by Greg Keyes (four lists), and a Star Trek novel by Peter David (one list).

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.19
SFC
10.12
WP
10.12
USAT
10.08
PW
10.13
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

10.13
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.04
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 30x3 10x4 150 15x5 15x6 100 25x3 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, Oryx and Crake (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 5x                   x
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus 08.24.03 / 8 31 -13     x xx xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Bujold, Paladin of Souls 08.10.03 / 2x x                 xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code 04.27.03 / 21x xx     xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..      
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (UK) 05.11.03 / 22               xxx 9 -2  
Funke, Inkheart 10.12.03 / 1           13 ++        
Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights 09.28.03 / 3 27 -7     139 -26     x     x
Gaiman/McKean, The Wolves in the Walls 08.17.03 / 8x x         xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 18 33 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Goodkind, Naked Empire 06.01.03 / 18                   xxx..
Hearn, Grass for His Pillow (AUSTRALIA) 09.07.03 / 6                 7 -3  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 09.14.03 / 5 17 -8 xx 6 +2 85 -36 x   xx      
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade (UK) 10.12.03 / 1                 8 ++  
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade 09.14.03 / 5                   xxx..
Jacques, Loamhedge 09.28.03 / 3 6 ++     68 ++   4 ++ x      
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 05.25.03 / 16             29 +19     xxx..
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude 09.14.03 / 5 24 -7 2 +4 8 +1 x xx 14 -2 x     xx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife 10.12.03 / 1 18   7       65      
Nix, Abhorsen 01.19.03 / 10x xxx..       xxx.. xxx..       xx
Nix, Lirael (UK) 09.07.03 / 5x               x    
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 6 3 +2     41 +44 1 ++ 3 +1 34 -13      
Pierce, Trickster's Choice 10.05.03 / 2 9 -2     140 -58   12 -4        
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment 10.12.03 / 1 20 ++     104 ++            
Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (UK) 10.05.03 / 2               4 +14 6 ++ 72 ++
Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (UK) 05.11.03 / 21x               xx    
Rice, Blackwood Farm 11.10.02 / 14 xxx.. xxx..   49 + xxx.. xxx..        
Rice, Blood Canticle 10.12.03 / 1             91 ++      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   xx           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 24x xx           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 35 2 = x   28 -12 2 + 6 -3 24 +5      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 16               1 = 2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 14                   10 +28
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Adult Edition (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 8x                   x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   xx           xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   xx           xxx..      
Stephenson, Quicksilver 09.07.03 / 6 7 -1 8 -5 2 ++ 39 -22 7 -2 7 -1 43 -12     x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.19
SFC
10.12
WP
10.12
USAT
10.08
PW
10.13
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

10.13
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.04
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 12x       x            
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr 08.24.03 / 6x xxx     x           xxx..
Crichton, Prey (UK) 08.17.03 / 9               13 -1    
David, Star Trek: New Frontier: Gods Above 10.12.03 / 1       143 ++            
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 3       149 ++ 9 ++ 9 +4       xx
Gaiman, Coraline [tpb] 08.10.03 / 6 xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 7 +         xxx..
Herbert/Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad 09.14.03 / 5 x     103 -31   x        
Keyes, Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy 10.12.03 / 1 13 ++     25 ++ 8 ++   90 ++      
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 07.13.03 / 8x xx     xxx..            
King, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands 09.14.03 / 3x       xx            
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 11x       xx           xxx..
Pratchett, Night Watch (UK) 10.05.03 / 2               1 +19    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (UK)             xxx..   xx    
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             xxx..   x    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife (UK)                 xx    
Rice, Blackwood Farm 10.12.03 / 1 20 ++       13 ++         53 ++
Robb, Imitation in Death 09.07.03 / 6 x   xxx.. 145 -101 x xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)                 17 -6 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   x xxx..   x   xx        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)                 8 -2 8 -2  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 62 5 -2 xxx..   107 -28   15 -5        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)                 19 -9 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)                 9 -2 x  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 122 4 +1 xxx..   118 -30   x        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   7 -1 xxx..   x   x        
Tolkien, The Return of the King         xx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.19
SFC
10.12
WP
10.12
USAT
10.08
PW
10.13
(ch 10.01)
Book
Sense

10.13
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Book
Scan

wk ending
10.04
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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