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3 March 2002


Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (Viking) climbs from the runners-up into the top 15 on this week's New York Times fiction list.

Dan Simmons's A Winter Haunting (William Morrow) benefits from the author's signing tour to rank on San Francisco's list.

Amazon's lists appear stale for a third week.

Title NYT
3.10
LAT
3.03
SFC
3.03
USAT
2.28
WP
3.03
WSJ
3.01
London
Times
3.03
PW
3.04
Book
Sense

3.04
stale
Amz
(2.25)
Amz UK
(3.04)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fforde, The Eyre Affair 15 +18                    
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion xxx.. (fic)           7 = (gen)     xxx.. (fic) xx (nf)
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm 16 -3 12 ++       x   15 -9      
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation xx xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             5 -2       4 +1 (nf)
Jacques, Taggerung xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   x xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 17 -3 xx   xxx..   xx   x   12 =  
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 3 +1 11 =   x x 5 =   5 -1 13 +1 2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 5 -1   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = 13 -4 xxx.. 21 -1   3 =   -- 4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 9 -6   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone x xxx.. xxx..     xxx..   -- xxx..    
Simmons, A Winter Haunting     10 ++                
Tolkien LotR   xxx..       xxx..       9 =  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   13 =  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   25 =  
Weber/White, The Shiva Option 30 +4                    
Trade Paperbacks
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... x   xxx.. xxx..       2 +2 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 -1 xxx xxx.. 14 -1     3   3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 +1 xxx xxx.. 13 +1     2 -- 2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 = xxx.. xxx.. 29 -3     5 -- 5 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xxx..   xxx.. xxx..       3 +2 xxx..    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 7 -1 (nf)           xxx.. (gen) xxx..     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           3 -1 xxx.. xxx xx 8 -3
Tolkien, The Hobbit   xxx..         4   xxx 21 = xxx
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 4 =  
Tolkien, LOTR   xxx xxx.. 28 +5 xxx..   xxx x 14 -4 xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xxx..         10 -2   xxx..   xx
Tolkien, The Two Towers   xxx     xxx..   4 -1   xxx xxx.. 9 -2
Mass Market Paperbacks
Cunningham, The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey 23 -2     x       x      
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 9 -2 (nf)     44 +1              
King, Dreamcatcher 30 +3     xxx       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 34 = xxx..   xxx xxx..     xxx.. xxx..    
Koontz, Phantoms 10 +1     27 +2       11 ++      
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             8 +1 xxx..    
Rice, The Queen of the Damned 14 +3     30 +17       12 ++      
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales                   xx  
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales 2                   xxx..  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   xxx   15 -3 xxx..     8 -2 9 -3    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       17 +2 10 ++     x 6 +1    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx           5 =  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       33 -5       xxx 10 = 25 =  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx.. 9 =  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       18 -2 xxx..     9 -1 8 = 24 =  
Watson, Jedi Apprentice: The Threat Within 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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