![](../../graphics/line2x370.gif) |
![](../../graphics/spacer.gif) |
SFFH on Bestseller Lists
23 December 2001![](../../graphics/spacer.gif)
![](../../graphics/spacer.gif)
![](../../graphics/spacer.gif)
Tolkien sales continue to rise. The Hobbit and the individual books of the trilogy occupy the first four positions of BookSense's mass market paperback list this week. The hardcover edition of the trilogy is up to #7 on Amazon's list, with a "Collector's Edition" of same ranking #8.
King & Straub's Black House also shows a boost this week, returning to three lists it had dropped off of.
In lieu of a weekly list, the Times of London posts overall 2001 bestsellers. Four of the top fiction hardcovers are fantasy or horror: Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time ranks #1 (with 128,845 copies sold), Pratchett & Kidby's The Last Hero is #5 (83,416), King & Straub's Black House is #8 (63,255), and King's Dreamcatcher is #10 (57,074). On the children's list, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is #1 (with 200,371 copies sold), and Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is #3 (69,796)
PW's children's list is updated for December this week.
|
Title |
NYT
12.30 |
LAT
12.23 |
SFC
12.23 |
USAT
12.20 |
WP
12.23 |
WSJ
12.21 |
London Times
12.16 stale |
PW
12.24 |
Book Sense
12.24 |
Amz
(12.23) |
Amz UK
(12.23) |
Items compiled from each list |
30 |
15 |
15 |
50 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 hc, 5 pb |
25 |
10 |
Fiction hardcovers |
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star |
33 -2 |
xxx.. |
|
xxx.. |
|
xxx.. |
|
xxx.. |
|
xxx |
|
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion |
29 +6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation |
19 -1 |
x |
|
xx |
|
xx |
|
x |
|
24 -3 |
|
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino |
x |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
|
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx |
|
Jacques, Taggerung |
9 = |
|
xxx |
xxx.. |
|
xxx.. |
|
2 = |
xxx.. |
|
|
King/Straub, Black House |
10 +3 |
xxx.. |
xxx |
47 -4 |
xxx.. |
15 + |
xxx.. |
12 + |
xxx.. |
16 -3 |
10 + |
Pratchett, The Last Hero |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 -1 |
|
|
|
1 +1 |
Rice, Blood and Gold |
17 = |
x |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
|
xx |
xxx.. |
21 -3 |
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
4 = |
|
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
|
9 +4 |
|
-- |
xxx.. |
|
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
1 = |
x |
10 -4 |
6 = |
|
2 = |
|
-- |
4 = |
|
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
3 = |
|
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
|
x |
|
-- |
xx |
|
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
2 = |
x |
xxx.. |
|
|
4 +1 |
|
-- |
10 -3 |
|
|
Salvatore, Sea of Swords |
34 = |
|
|
xxx.. |
|
xxx.. |
|
xxx.. |
|
xxx |
|
Tolkien LotR |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7 +5 |
|
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8 ++ |
|
Fiction paperbacks |
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon |
24 +1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
x |
24 -5 |
|
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen |
32 = |
|
|
xxx.. |
|
|
|
xxx |
xxx.. |
|
|
King, Dreamcatcher |
3 = |
|
|
33 -21 |
|
|
|
4 +1 |
8 = |
25 -1 |
|
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye |
2 = |
x |
|
22 -7 |
xx |
|
|
5 -2 |
9 + |
|
|
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation |
26 +2 |
|
|
xxx.. |
|
|
|
xx |
|
|
|
Pratchett, The Truth |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 -1 |
|
|
|
3 -1 |
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
xxx.. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
5 -4 |
xxx.. |
|
|
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... |
7 = |
|
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
|
|
|
3 +3 |
xxx.. |
|
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 = |
3 +3 |
xxx |
4 = |
|
|
9 |
|
3 = |
|
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
|
|
|
|
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
2 = |
6 -4 |
xx |
3 = |
|
|
7 |
-- |
2 = |
|
|
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
1 = |
7 -3 |
xx |
2 -1 |
|
|
6 |
-- |
1 = |
|
|
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages |
6 +2 |
|
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
|
|
|
4 +3 |
xxx.. |
|
|
Sachar, Holes |
xxx |
|
|
xxx.. |
|
|
|
8 -4 |
xxx.. |
|
|
Tolkien, The Hobbit |
|
x |
|
9 -1 |
|
|
|
2 +2 |
2 = |
9 +1 |
|
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR |
|
|
|
12 +1 |
|
|
|
|
xxx.. tpb |
2 = mm, 1 = tpb |
|
Tolkien, LOTR |
|
|
|
10 +7 |
xx |
|
4 +2 |
1 +3 |
4 +3 tpb |
15 +2 mm, xx tpb |
4 +4 |
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring |
xxx.. |
x |
|
5 +2 |
|
|
1 +7 |
1 +1 mm, 5 = tpb |
1 = mm |
22 + |
1 +2 |
Tolkien, The Return of the King |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10 +2 |
4 +3 |
|
|
Tolkien, The Silmarillion |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13 +2 |
|
Tolkien, The Two Towers |
|
|
|
43 -1 |
|
|
|
6 +1 |
3 +2 |
|
|
Nonfiction paperbacks |
Kronzek & Kronzek, The Sorcerer's Companion |
10 = pb |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|