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3 February 2002


No genre books debut this week on general lists, which are still dominated by Tolkien and Rowling titles. Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings ranks on this week's Amazon UK hardcover list -- in nonfiction. The Times of London posts its occasional children's paperback list, with Rowling titles filling four of the five slots, and The Hobbit the fifth.

Title NYT
2.10

(pb)
LAT
2.03
(pb)
SFC
2.03
USAT
1.31
WP
2.03
WSJ
2.01
London
Times
2.03
PW
2.04
Book
Sense

2.04
Amz
(2.04)
Amz UK
(2.04)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion 29 + (fic)           4 -1 (gen)     xx (fic) 10 -4 (nf)
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 24 +3 xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             3 =       6 ++ (nf)
Jacques, Taggerung xxx   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   6 -4 xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 28 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 5 -1 4 -2   49 -6   10 -2   9 -1   12 -4  
McCaffrey/Scarborough, Acorna's Search xx                    
Pratchett, The Last Hero             x       x
Rice, Blood and Gold xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 -1   xxx.. xxx..   xx   -- 14 -5    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = 5 +3 8 +1 21 -4   2 +1   -- 3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 +1   xxx.. xxx..   xx   -- 11 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 7 -2 xxx.. xxx..     xxx   -- xx    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide xxx                 xxx  
Tolkien LotR   x       xxx       9 -3  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   10 =  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   19 +  
Trade Paperbacks
Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody                   xx  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings                   xx  
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 9 +1   xxx.. xxx..       4 +1 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 +2 xx xxx.. 9 -2     3   2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 -1 xxx xxx.. 11 -3     2 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 -1 xxx xxx.. 14 -1     5 -- 4 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 10 +   xxx.. xxx..       5 -1 xx    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 3 = (nf)           x (gen) x     xx (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           2 = x 9 -2 16 +1 4 -2
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +2         4   11 -3 15 -3 9 -2
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 1 =  
Tolkien, LOTR   10 -5 x 16 -1 x   x 4 -1 3 +2 xxx xx
Tolkien, The Return of the King   x         x   xx   10 -2
Tolkien, The Two Towers   x     xx   x   14 -3 xxx 7 -2
Mass Market Paperbacks
Carr, Killing Time x                    
Jordan, Winter's Heart 29 -6     xx       xxx xx 20 +1  
King, Dreamcatcher 21 -7     40 -4       xxx xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 14 -1 xxx..   33 -7 xxx..     15 -2 xxx..    
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern 28 -10     50 -10       x xx    
Pratchett, The Truth             xxx..       xxx
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 10 +    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             9 -4 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes x     xxx..       8 = xxx..    
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales                   21 -3  
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales 2                   xx  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   3 +1   7 -4 xxx     5 -3 2 +1    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       8 -4       7 -3 5 -1    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       31 -11           3 =  
Tolkien, LOTR                   xxx..  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       15 +1       10 -1 6 -1 17 -2  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx 7 +4  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       10 -1 xx     8 -3 4 -2 14 =  
  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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