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7 April 2002


Stephen King's Everything's Eventual (Scribner) debuts on four most lists this week, ranking in the top 10 everywhere but San Francisco and BookSense.

Laurell K. Hamilton's A Caress of Twilight (Ballantine) places on four more lists this week, for five rankings so far.

New this week, Aaron Allston's Star Wars novel The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream (Del Rey), on three lists.

Title NYT
4.14
LAT
4.07
SFC
4.07
USAT
4.04
WP
4.07
WSJ
4.05
London
Times
4.07
PW
4.08
Book
Sense

4.08
Amz
(4.07)
Amz UK
(4.07)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm 24 +4 xxx..       xxx..   xxx..      
Hamilton L, A Caress of Twilight 10 +9   7 ++ 44 ++   5 ++   8 ++      
Hamilton P, Fallen Dragon                   xx  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             5 -1       7 -2 (nf)
King, Everything's Eventual 1 = 3 ++   3 -2 2 ++ 1 = 10 -8 1 =   3 ++ 2 ++
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven x xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 19 -5 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xx   xx xxx.. 18 -8  
Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt                   x  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 8 -2   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 29 =   8 =   -- 9 -6    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets xx   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone xx xxx.. xxx..     xxx..   -- xxx..    
Tolkien LotR   xxx..       xxx..       24 -3  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   21 +3  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   xxx..  
Trade Paperbacks
Miller/Varley, The Dark Knight Strikes Again Vol. 2                   xxx  
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... xxx..   xxx.. xxx..       x xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 19 +16     x   4 +1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             x        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 1 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 37 +1     x -- 6 -4    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 5 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     x -- 8 -2    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages xxx..   xxx.. xxx..       x xxx..    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 12 +15 (nf)           xxx.. (gen) xxx..     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           5 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Tolkien, The Hobbit   xxx..         x   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 2 +2  
Tolkien, LOTR   xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 13 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xxx..         xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Tolkien, The Two Towers   xxx..     xxx..   8 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Mass Market Paperbacks
Allston, The New Jedit Order: Rebel Dream 7 ++     10 ++       4 ++      
Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows xxx                    
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 14 -7 (nf)     xxx..           xx  
King, Dreamcatcher xxx..     xxx..       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx..     xxx.. xxx..    
Koontz, Phantoms 30 -9     xxx..       xxx..      
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             xxx x    
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 xxx    
Rice, The Complete Vampire Chronicles                   18 +1  
Rice, The Queen of the Damned xxx..     xxx..       xxx..      
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   xxx..   42 + xxx..     xxx.. 9 +1    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       32 + xxx..     xxx.. xx    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx..           7 +4  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       xxx..       xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xxx.. 20 +3  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       50 + xxx..     xxx.. xx xxx..  
Wells, The Time Machine                   xx  
  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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