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24 February 2002


The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, nominally edited by Joyce Reardon Ph.D. and with an afterword by Steven Rimbauer, has been on lists for several weeks now and is now included in the chart below. It's a low-key tie-in to the Stephen King scripted mini-series Rose Red broadcast a while back, and circumstances suggest the actual author of this book might be... well, you can speculate as well as we can.

The bestseller lists on PW's website were unavailable until Wednesday (the 27th). Both Amazon lists appear not to have been updated this week.

Title NYT
3.03
LAT
2.24
SFC
2.24
USAT
2.22
WP
2.24
WSJ
2.22
London
Times
2.24
PW
2.25
Book
Sense

2.25
stale
Amz
(2.25)
Amz UK
(2.25)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fforde, The Eyre Affair 33 +                    
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion xxx (fic)           7 = (gen)     xxx.. (fic) x (nf)
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm 13 -1         12 +1   6 +6      
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation x xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             3 +3       5 -1 (nf)
Jacques, Taggerung xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   x xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 14 -1 x   xxx   x   14 -1   12 =  
Pratchett, The Last Hero             xxx..       xxx
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 4 = 11 ++   38 -12 8 5   4 -1 14 2  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 4 -2   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = 9 = xxx 20 +5   3 +2   -- 4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 +2   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- 12 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 7 = 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 34 -8                    
Trade Paperbacks
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 10 +   xxx.. xxx..       2 +2 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 +1 xx xxx.. 13 =     3   3 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 -1 xx xxx.. 14 +1     2 -- 2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 = xxx.. xxx.. 26 +1     5 -- 5 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xxx   xxx.. xxx..       3 +2 xxx..    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 6 +3 (nf)           xxx.. (gen) xxx..     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           2 = xxx.. xx xx 5 =
Tolkien, The Hobbit   xxx         4   xx 21 = xx
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 4 =  
Tolkien, LOTR   xx xxx.. 33 +5 xxx..   xx 11 -3 10 -3 xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xxx..         8 +2   xxx..   x
Tolkien, The Two Towers   xx     xxx..   3 +2   xx xxx.. 7 =
Mass Market Paperbacks
Cunningham, The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey 21 -6     44 -10       15 -9      
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 7 -3 (nf)     45 +5              
King, Dreamcatcher 33 -9     xx       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 34 + xxx..   xx xxx..     xxx xxx..    
Koontz, Phantoms 11 +6     29 +7              
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern xxx     xxx       xxx.. xxx..    
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 xx    
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             8 +1 xxx..    
Rice, The Queen of the Damned 17 +14     47 +20              
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   xx   12 -2 xxx..     6 +3 6 +    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       19 +3       10 +2 7 +    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xx           5 =  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       28 +4       xx 10 + 25 =  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx.. 9 =  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       16 +3 xxx..     8 +2 8 + 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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