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30 December 2001


Several lists aren't updated this week. Those that are show Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien benefiting from the current holiday and/or movie seasons. The Alan Lee illustrated edition of Lord of the Rings ranks #21 on Amazon's hardcover list this week, while individual titles from the trilogy, as well as editions of the trilogy, rank on four various paperback lists. Amazon's paperback list also ranks The Silmarillion at #10.

Title NYT
1.06
LAT
12.30
SFC
12.30
USAT
12.27
WP
12.23
stale
WSJ
12.28
London
Times
12.30
PW
12.24 stale
Book
Sense

12.24 stale
Amz
(12.30)
Amz UK
(12.30)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star x xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion 27 +2                    
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 24 -5 xx   xxx   xxx   x   x  
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Jacques, Taggerung x   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   2 = xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 7 +3 xxx.. xxx 34 +13 xxx.. 9 +6 xxx.. 12 + xxx.. 18 -2 10 =
Pratchett, The Last Hero             3 -1       1 =
Rice, Blood and Gold 15 +2 xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xx xxx.. x  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 +1   xxx.. xxx..   13 -4   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = 12 + x 9 -3   2 =   -- 4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 -1   xxx.. xxx..   12 +   -- xx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = xx xxx..     4 =   -- 10 -3    
Salvatore, Sea of Swords x     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Tolkien LotR                   3 +4  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   7 +1  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   21 ++  
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon 28 -4               x 22 +2  
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen x     xxx..       xxx xxx..    
King, Dreamcatcher 2 -1     18 +15       4 +1 8 = x  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 3 -1 xx   20 +2 xx     5 -2 9 +    
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation 11 +15     xxx..       xx      
Pratchett, The Truth             7 -4       3 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             5 -4 xxx..    
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 6 +1   xxx.. xxx..       3 +3 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 = 7 -4 xxx 5 -1     9   3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             8        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = 4 +2 xxx 3 =     7 -- 2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 5 +2 xxx 2 =     6 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 5 +1   xxx.. xxx..       4 +3 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes xxx     xxx..       8 -4 xxx..    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   6 +   6 +3       2 +2 2 = 7 +2  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       8 +4         xxx.. tpb 2 = mm, 1 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR     10 ++ 7 +3 xx   2 +2 1 +3 4 +3 tpb 14 +1 mm, 20 + tpb 4 =
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. 3 +   4 +1     1 = 1 +1 mm, 5 = tpb 1 = mm 17 +5 1 =
Tolkien, The Return of the King       19 +26     9 ++ 10 +2 4 +3    
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                   10 +3  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       12 +31     6 ++ 6 +1 3 +2    
Nonfiction paperbacks
Kronzek & Kronzek, The Sorcerer's Companion x pb                    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 2                    
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists Italics indicates stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before

The table compiles SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists. The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week are shown, 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)

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, London Times, Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). 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.

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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