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17 February 2002


David Weber and Steve White's The Shiva Option (Baen) debuted last week on the New York Times list, and it's up to #26 this week.

As Tolkien and Rowling titles fade somewhat, genre presence on the general lists grows scarcer; this week neither Washington Post nor San Francisco Chronicle show any genre books on their hardcover lists.

Title NYT
2.24

(pb)
LAT
2.17)
SFC
2.17
USAT
2.14
WP
2.17
WSJ
2.15
London
Times
2.17
PW
2.18
Book
Sense

2.18
stale
Amz
(2.18)
Amz UK
(2.18)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion xx (fic)           7 -2 (gen)     xxx.. (fic) x (nf)
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm 12 =         13 -6   12 -1      
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 29 + xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             6 -2       5 -1 (nf)
Jacques, Taggerung xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   x xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 34 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 13 -10 8 -2   xx   14 -1   13 -1   12 =  
Pratchett, The Last Hero             xxx       xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 =   xxx.. xxx..   xxx   -- x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = 9 + xx 25 +3   5 -1   -- 4 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 5 -2   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 7 -2 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..   -- xxx    
Tolkien LotR   xxx       xxx..       9 =  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   13 =  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   25 =  
Weber/White, The Shiva Option 26 +7                    
Trade Paperbacks
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... xx   xxx.. xxx..       2 +2 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 -1 x xxx.. 13 =     3   1 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 -1 x xxx.. 15 -1     2 -- 2-1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 27 -2     5 -- 5 -1    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xx   xxx.. xxx..       3 +2 xxx    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 9 -5 (nf)           xxx (gen) xxx     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           2 = xxx x xx 5 =
Tolkien, The Hobbit   xx         4   x 21 = xx
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 4 =  
Tolkien, LOTR   x xxx 38 -7 xxx   x 8 +1 7 -4 xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xxx         10 -2   xxx   x
Tolkien, The Two Towers   x     xxx..   5 +1   x xxx.. 7 =
Mass Market Paperbacks
Cunningham, The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey 15 -4     34 -12       6 =      
Jordan, Winter's Heart xx     xxx..       xxx.. xxx xx  
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 4 ++ (nf)     50 ++              
King, Dreamcatcher 24 +8     x       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye x xxx..   x xxx..     xx xxx..    
Koontz, Phantoms 17 ++     36 ++              
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern xx     xx       xxx xxx    
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 x    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             8 +1 xxx..    
Rice, The Queen of the Damned 31 ++                    
Sachar, Holes xxx     xxx..       7 +1 xxx..    
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales                   xx  
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales 2                   xxx..  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   x   14 -3 xxx..     9 -2 x    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       22 -4       12 +1 x    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       x           5 =  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       32 -9       x x 25 =  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx.. 9 =  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       19 -4 xxx..     10 -2 x 24 =  
  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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