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10 March 2002


Both the Simmons and Fforde novels noted last time have dropped off their lists after only one week.

Bored of the Rings is still selling remarkably well in the UK -- it's in the top 10 hardcovers on both UK lists charted below. Why hasn't it been re-issued in the US?

The only debut this week is the paperback of Laurell K. Hamilton's A Kiss of Shadows, among the runners-up on the New York Times list.

Amazon's lists are unchanged for a fourth week now.

Title NYT
3.17
LAT
3.10
SFC
3.10
USAT
3.07
WP
3.10
WSJ
3.08
London
Times
3.10
PW
3.11
Book
Sense

3.11
Amz
(2.25)
Amz UK
(3.12)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fforde, The Eyre Affair x                    
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion xxx.. (fic)           9 -2 (gen)     xxx.. (fic) xxx (nf)
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm 19 -3 x       xx   x      
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             5 =       6 -2 (nf)
Jacques, Taggerung xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   x xxx..    
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 24 -7 xxx   xxx..   xxx   xx   12 =  
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 4 -1 x   47 + xx 5 =   4 +1 11 +2 2 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 5 =   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = x xxx.. 25 -4   4 -1   -- 4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 6 +3   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 10 + xxx.. xxx..     xxx..   -- xxx..    
Simmons, A Winter Haunting     x                
Tolkien LotR   xxx..       xxx..       9 =  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   13 =  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   25 =  
Weber/White, The Shiva Option xx                    
Trade Paperbacks
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... xx   xxx.. xxx..       2 +2 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 = xxx.. xxx.. 19 -5     3   2 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             1        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = xxx.. xxx.. 29 -16     2 -- 3 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 = xxx.. xxx.. 45 -16     5 -- 5 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xxx..   xxx.. xxx..       3 +2 xxx..    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 8 -1 (nf)           xxx.. (gen) xxx..     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           3 = xxx.. xxx.. xx 5 +3
Tolkien, The Hobbit   xxx..         4   xxx.. 21 = xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 4 =  
Tolkien, LOTR   xxx.. xxx.. 49 -21 xxx..   xxx.. xx x xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xxx..         10 =   xxx..   xxx
Tolkien, The Two Towers   xxx..     xxx..   6 -2   xxx.. xxx.. 10 -1
Mass Market Paperbacks
Cunningham, The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey x     xx       xx      
Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows 34 ++                    
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 9 = (nf)     x              
King, Dreamcatcher 31 -1     xxx..       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye x xxx..   xxx.. xxx..     xxx.. xxx..    
Koontz, Phantoms 15 -5     36 -9       x      
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             8 +1 7 +    
Rice, The Queen of the Damned 18 -4     39 -9       x      
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales                   xx  
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales 2                   xxx..  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   xxx..   24 -9 xxx..     14 -6 9 =    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       27 -10 x     xx 10 -4    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx..           5 =  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       x       xxx.. x 25 =  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx.. 9 =  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       20 -2 xxx..     x 8 = 24 =  
Watson, Jedi Apprentice: The Threat Within x                    
  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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