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10 February 2002


Two Star Wars titles debut this week, a hardcover by Alan Dean Foster called Star Wars: The Approaching Storm (Del Rey), and in paperback, Elaine Cunningham's The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey (also Del Rey); each appears on three lists.

Publishers Weekly updates its children's lists this week for February. Brian Jacques' Taggerung finally drops off, but Pullman's The Golden Compass has returned to the list, perhaps inspired by his Whitbread Prize win in the UK.

Title NYT
2.17

(pb)
LAT
2.10
(pb)
SFC
2.10
USAT
2.07
WP
2.10
WSJ
2.08
London
Times
2.10
PW
2.11
Book
Sense

2.04
stale
Amz
(2.10)
Amz UK
(2.10)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion x (fic)           5 -1 (gen)     xxx (fic) 10 = (nf)
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm 12 ++         7 ++   11 ++      
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation x xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             4 -1/td>       4 +2 (nf)
Jacques, Taggerung xxx   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   x xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 35 -7 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 3 +2 6 -2   x   13 -3   12 -3   12 =  
Pratchett, The Last Hero             xx       xx
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 +1   xxx.. xxx..   xx   -- 14 -5    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = x x 28 -7   4 -2   -- 3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 -1   xxx.. xxx..   xxx   -- 11 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 5 +2 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..   -- xx    
Tolkien LotR   xx       xxx..       9 =  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   13 -3  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   25 -6  
Trade Paperbacks
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... x   xxx.. xxx..       2 +2 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 -1 10 + xxx.. 13 -4     3   2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 1 +1 7 + xxx.. 14 -3     2 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = xxx.. xxx.. 25 -11     5 -- 4 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages x   xxx.. xxx..       3 +2 xx    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 4 -1 (nf)           xx (gen) xx     xxx (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           2 = xx 9 -2 x 5 -1
Tolkien, The Hobbit   x         4   11 -3 21 -6 x
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 4 -3  
Tolkien, LOTR   3 +7 xx x xx   9 + 9 -5 3 +2 xxx.. xxx
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xx         8 +   xx   10 =
Tolkien, The Two Towers   8 +     xxx   6 +   14 -3 xxx.. 7 =
Mass Market Paperbacks
Carr, Killing Time xx                    
Cunningham, The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey 11 ++     22 ++       6 ++      
Jordan, Winter's Heart x     xxx       xxx.. xx x  
King, Dreamcatcher 32 -11     48 -8       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 22 -8 xxx..   49 -16 xxx..     x xxx..    
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern x     x       xx xx    
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 10 +    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             8 +1 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes xx     xxx..       7 +1 xxx..    
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales                   x  
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales 2                   xxx  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   5 -2   11 -4 xxx..     7 -2 2 +1    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       18 -10       13 -6 5 -1    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       44 -13           5 -2  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       23 -8       12 -2 6 -1 25 -8  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx 9 -2  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       15 -5 xxx     8 = 4 -2 24 -10  
  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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