SFFH on Bestseller Lists

30 December 2001

Several lists aren't updated this week. Those that are show Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien benefiting from the current holiday and/or movie seasons. The Alan Lee illustrated edition of Lord of the Rings ranks #21 on Amazon's hardcover list this week, while individual titles from the trilogy, as well as editions of the trilogy, rank on four various paperback lists. Amazon's paperback list also ranks The Silmarillion at #10.
Title	NYT 1.06	LAT 12.30	SFC 12.30	USAT 12.27	WP 12.23 stale	WSJ 12.28	London Times 12.30	PW 12.24 stale	Book Sense 12.24 stale	Amz (12.30)	Amz UK (12.30)
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	x	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion	27 +2
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation	24 -5	xx		xxx		xxx		x		x
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino	xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Jacques, Taggerung	x		xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		2 =	xxx..
King/Straub, Black House	7 +3	xxx..	xxx	34 +13	xxx..	9 +6	xxx..	12 +	xxx..	18 -2	10 =
Pratchett, The Last Hero							3 -1				1 =
Rice, Blood and Gold	15 +2	xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xx	xxx..	x
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	3 +1		xxx..	xxx..		13 -4		--	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire	1 =	12 +	x	9 -3		2 =		--	4 =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	4 -1		xxx..	xxx..		12 +		--	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	2 =	xx	xxx..			4 =		--	10 -3
Salvatore, Sea of Swords	x			xxx..		xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Tolkien LotR										3 +4
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition										7 +1
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee										21 ++
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon	28 -4								x	22 +2
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen	x			xxx..				xxx	xxx..
King, Dreamcatcher	2 -1			18 +15				4 +1	8 =	x
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye	3 -1	xx		20 +2	xx			5 -2	9 +
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation	11 +15			xxx..				xx
Pratchett, The Truth							7 -4				3 =
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass	xxx..							5 -4	xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts...	6 +1		xxx..	xxx..				3 +3	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	3 =	7 -4	xxx	5 -1			9		3 =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire							8
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	2 =	4 +2	xxx	3 =			7	--	2 =
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	1 =	5 +2	xxx	2 =			6	--	1 =
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages	5 +1		xxx..	xxx..				4 +3	xxx..
Sachar, Holes	xxx			xxx..				8 -4	xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit		6 +		6 +3				2 +2	2 =	7 +2
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR				8 +4					xxx.. tpb	2 = mm, 1 = tpb
Tolkien, LOTR			10 ++	7 +3	xx		2 +2	1 +3	4 +3 tpb	14 +1 mm, 20 + tpb	4 =
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring	xxx..	3 +		4 +1			1 =	1 +1 mm, 5 = tpb	1 = mm	17 +5	1 =
Tolkien, The Return of the King				19 +26			9 ++	10 +2	4 +3
Tolkien, The Silmarillion										10 +3
Tolkien, The Two Towers				12 +31			6 ++	6 +1	3 +2
Nonfiction paperbacks
Kronzek & Kronzek, The Sorcerer's Companion	x pb
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide	2
	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.