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6 January 2002


Dean Koontz's One Door Away from Heaven (Bantam) debuts on several hardcover lists, as high as #5 on PW's list; and the paperback reprint of Robert Jordan's Winter's Heart (Tor) debuts on several lists, has high as #11 on PW's list.

Tolkien continues to sell, with a couple volumes breaking onto trade paperback lists for the first time. The boxed hardcover set of the trilogy debuts on LAT's list at #11, and continues to rank #3 at Amazon. (However Amazon's lists do not appear to have been updated since last week.)

Title NYT
1.13
LAT
1.06
SFC
1.06
USAT
1.04
WP
1.06
stale
WSJ
1.04
London
Times
1.06
PW
1.07
Book
Sense

1.07
Amz
(1.06)
Amz UK
(1.06)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion 18 +9                    
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 20 +4 xxx   xxx..   xxx..   xx   x  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             6 +4        
Jacques, Taggerung xx   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   2 = xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 11 -4 7 + xxx.. 42 -8 xxx.. 11 -2 xxx.. 9 +3 xxx.. 18 = 10 =
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 9 ++     25 ++   8 ++   5 ++      
Pratchett, The Last Hero             3 =       3 -2
Rice, Blood and Gold 16 -1 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx xxx.. x  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 4 -1   xxx.. xxx..   12 +1   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = x xx 12 -3   2 =   -- 4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 +1   xxx.. xxx..   13 -1   -- xxx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = xxx xxx..     7 -3   -- 10 =    
Salvatore, Sea of Swords 34 +     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Tolkien LotR   11 ++               3 =  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   7 =  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   21 =  
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon 22 +6               xx 22 =  
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen xx     xxx..       xxx.. xxx..    
Jordan, Winter's Heart 13 ++     33 ++       11 ++      
King, Dreamcatcher 4 -2     20 -2       5 -1 6 +2 x  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 3 = xxx   21 -1 xxx     6 -1 x    
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation 19 -8     xxx..       xxx      
Pratchett, The Truth             9 -2       9 -6
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             5 -4 xxx..    
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 7 -1   xxx.. xxx..       3 +3 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 = 5 +2 xxx.. 9 -4     9   3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             8        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = x xxx.. 5 -2     7 -- 2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 8 -3 xxx.. 4 -2     6 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 8 -3   xxx.. xxx..       4 +3 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes xxx     xxx..       8 -4 xxx..    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   3 +3   3 +3       3 -1 2 = mm, 10 ++ tpb 7 = 7 +
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       11 -3         xxx.. tpb 2 = mm, 1 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR   1 ++ x 7 = mm, 16 ++ tpb 6 +   2 = 1 = 4 = tpb 14 = mm, 20 = tpb 2 +2
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. 2 +1   2 +2     1 = 2 -1 mm, 6 -1 tpb 1 = mm, 9 ++ tpb 17 = 1 =
Tolkien, The Return of the King       10 +9     7 +2 8 +2 4 =    
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                   10 =  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       8 +4     3 +3 4 +2 3 =    
Nonfiction paperbacks
Kronzek & Kronzek, The Sorcerer's Companion xx pb                    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 3 -1                    
  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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