SFFH on Bestseller Lists

2 December 2001

Two books debut this week, Terry Goodkind's The Pillars of Creation (Tor) in hardcover, and Dean Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye (Bantam) in paperback. Terry Pratchett is still #1 on the UK hardcover lists, but slips to #2 on both paperback lists this week. Last week Rowling resurged; this week it's Tolkien, in various editions. This week's Amazon paperback list has no less than seven Tolkien entries, including the traditional boxed sets of the trilogy, and new editions with movie art covers.
Title	NYT 12.09	LAT 12.02	SFC 12.02	USAT 11.29	WP 12.02	WSJ 11.30	London Times 12.02	PW 12.03	Book Sense 11.26 stale	Amz (12.03)	Amz UK (12.03)
Items compiled from each list	30	15	15	50	10	10	10	15	15 hc, 5 pb	25	10
Fiction hardcovers
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax	34 -6	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		x	xxx..
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star	20 -4	xx		xx		xx		x		x
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation	9 ++			16 ++		6 ++		6 ++		17 ++
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains	x	xxx		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		x
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino	28 -1	xxx	xxx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	x
James Herbert, Once							x				xx
Jacques, Taggerung	9 -1		15 +	xxx..		xxx..		2 =	xxx..
King/Straub, Black House	14 +1	xx	2 +	44 +5	xxx..	x	xxx	x	xxx	12 -3	xx
Pratchett, The Last Hero							1 =				1 =
Rice, Blood and Gold	17 -4	13 -3	xxx	x	x	x		15 -7	xxx	18 -12
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	4 =		xxx..	xxx..		xxx		--	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire	1 =	x	xxx	6 -1		3 +2		--	4 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	3 =		x	xxx..		10 +		--	9 +
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	2 =		xxx..			4 -2		--	5 +5
Salvatore, Sea of Swords	22 -3			xxx		xxx		xx		x
Tolkien LotR										14 +
Fiction paperbacks
Eddings & Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus	31 =							xx
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen	14 +1			x				8 +2	x
Harry Potter.. Poster Book	9 +
King, Hearts in Atlantis	x	xxx..		xxx..				xxx	xxx	xxx..
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye	1 ++			11 ++				4 ++
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation	7 -1			x				9 +5
Pratchett, The Truth							2 -1				2 -1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass	xxx							1 ++	xx
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts...	8 +2		xxx..	xxx..				6 -3	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	3 =	6 -3	7 =	3 =			9		3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire							8
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	2 =	5 +	x	2 =			7	--	2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	1 =	1 =	x	1 =			6	--	1 =
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages	7 +1		xxx..	xxx..				7 -3	xxx..
Sachar, Holes	xx			xxx..				4 +1	xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit		7 +2		9 +2				2 +4	2 +1	9 +
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR				15 +3					x tpb	1 +1 mm, 2 +2 tpb
Tolkien, LOTR				14 +31			6 +	3 ++	14 ++ tpb	21 + mm, 12 + tpb
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring	xxx..	xxx..		7 +2			8 +	1 = mm, 15 ++ tpb	1 +1 mm	23 +
Tolkien, The Silmarillion										11 +
Tolkien, The Two Towers								15 ++
	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.