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24 March 2002


Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt (Bantam) moves up to #16 on Amazon's hardcover fiction list this week, clearing the #23 slot for the debut of Peter Hamilton's Fallen Dragon (Warner Aspect).

In paperbacks, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine ranks at #22 on Amazon's list.

Title NYT
3.31
LAT
3.24
SFC
3.24
USAT
3.21
WP
3.24
WSJ
3.22
London
Times
3.24
PW
3.25
Book
Sense

3.25
Amz
(3.25)
Amz UK
(3.25)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fforde, The Eyre Affair x                    
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion xxx.. (fic)           xx (gen)     xxx.. (fic) xxx.. (nf)
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm 25 -3 xxx       xxx..   xxx      
Hamilton, Fallen Dragon                   23 ++  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             4 +2       5 +1 (nf)
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 31 -6 xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xx  
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 10 -4 xxx   xx xxx.. 11 -4   11 -4 xx 4 =  
Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt                   16 +7  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 5 =   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = xxx xxx.. 32 -5   6 -2   -- 5 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 7 -5   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 6 +1 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..   -- xxx..    
Tolkien LotR   xxx..       xxx..       24 -3  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   17 +  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   xx  
Trade Paperbacks
Miller/Varley, The Dark Knight Strikes Again Vol. 2                   x  
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... xxx..   xxx.. xxx..       2 = xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = xxx.. xxx.. 26 -4     x   2 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             x        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 = xxx.. xxx.. 37 -2     x -- 4 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 = xxx.. xxx.. xx     x -- 7 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xxx..   xxx.. xxx..       3 = xxx..    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 29 -9 (nf)           xxx.. (gen) xxx..     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. x
Tolkien, The Hobbit   xxx..         x   xxx.. xx xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 4 -2  
Tolkien, LOTR   xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xxx..         xx   xxx..   xxx..
Tolkien, The Two Towers   xxx..     xxx..   x   xxx.. xxx.. x
Mass Market Paperbacks
Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows x                    
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 7 +1 (nf)     xxx           16 -5  
King, Dreamcatcher xx     xxx..       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye xxx xxx..   xxx.. xxx..     xxx.. xxx..    
Koontz, Phantoms 22 +1     xx       xxx      
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             x x    
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 x    
Rice, The Complete Vampire Chronicles                   19 -9  
Rice, The Queen of the Damned xx     xx       xxx      
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   xxx..   x xxx..     xx 9 +    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       44 -10 xxx     xxx.. 10 +    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx..           8 -1  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       xxx       xxx.. xxx xx  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx.. 23 -6  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       x xxx..     xxx 7 + xx  
Wells, The Time Machine                   22 ++  
  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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