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SFFH on Bestseller Lists
20 January 2002
Not only are the fantasy series by J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling selling well, so are their parodies.
Michael Gerber's Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody places on Amazon's list this week, and so does Harvard Lampoon's 1969 Bored of the Rings. The latter title has ranked for several weeks now on the Times of London's list -- in hardcover.
One debut this week: Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Acorna's Search (Eos) runs-up at #34 on the New York Times list.
To keep track of the various Tolkien editions with less confusion, paperbacks in the table below have been split into separate trade and mass market sections. Note that one of the Tolkien tie-in books, Jude Fisher's Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion, is ranked among fiction on US lists and nonfiction on UK lists.
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Title |
NYT
1.27 |
LAT
1.20 |
SFC
1.20 |
USAT
1.17 |
WP
1.20 |
WSJ
1.18 |
London
Times
1.20 |
PW
1.21 |
Book
Sense
1.21 |
Amz
(1.21) |
Amz UK
(1.21) |
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Items compiled from each list |
30 |
15 |
15 |
50 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
15 |
15 hc, 5 pb |
25 |
10 |
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Hardcovers |
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Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion |
23 -1 (fic) |
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2 +1 (gen) |
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24 -5 (fic) |
5 (nf) |
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Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation |
25 -5 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx |
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Harvard, Bored of the Rings |
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4 +1 |
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Jacques, Taggerung |
xxx |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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6 -4 |
xxx.. |
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King/Straub, Black House |
28 -11 |
xx |
xxx.. |
xx |
xxx.. |
xx |
xxx.. |
xx |
xxx.. |
xx |
x |
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Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven |
1 = |
5 ++ |
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30 -12 |
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6 -3 |
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4 -2 |
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6 -1 |
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McCaffrey/Scarborough, Acorna's Search |
34 ++ |
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Pratchett, The Last Hero |
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5 +1 |
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4 -1 |
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Rice, Blood and Gold |
27 -4 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
2 = |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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14 -4 |
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-- |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
1 = |
12 -1 |
xxx.. |
14 -3 |
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1 = |
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-- |
3 = |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
3 = |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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15 -4 |
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-- |
8 + |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
4 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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x |
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-- |
11 + |
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Salvatore, Sea of Swords |
x |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide |
x |
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x |
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Tolkien LotR |
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xx |
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x |
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3 -2 |
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Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition |
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5 -1 |
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Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee |
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13 -4 |
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Trade Paperbacks |
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Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody |
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17 ++ |
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Harvard, Bored of the Rings |
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25 ++ |
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Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... |
7 = |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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4 +1 |
xxx.. |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban |
3 = |
8 -4 |
xxx.. |
5 +2 |
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9 |
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2 -1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire |
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8 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets |
1 +1 |
x |
xxx.. |
4 +1 |
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7 |
-- |
1 +1 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone |
2 -1 |
x |
xxx.. |
9 -1 |
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6 |
-- |
4 = |
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Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages |
9 -1 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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5 -1 |
15 + |
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Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide |
3 +2 (nf) |
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8 = (gen) |
9 +5 |
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10 (nf) |
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Tolkien, The Hobbit |
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2 +1 |
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8 +2 |
6 +1 |
7 = |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR |
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10 = |
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xxx.. |
1 = |
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Tolkien, LOTR |
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4 + |
6 + |
xx |
2 -1 |
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5 -1 |
2 -1 |
1 +1 |
x |
10 -8 |
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Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring |
xxx.. |
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2 -1 |
x |
6 -1 |
13 -2 |
2 -1 |
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Tolkien, The Return of the King |
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x |
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7 -1 |
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15 ++ |
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8 ++ |
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Tolkien, The Two Towers |
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3 +7 |
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4 -1 |
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9 -1 |
x |
5 ++ |
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Mass Market Paperbacks |
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Card, Shadow of the Hegemon |
xx |
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xxx.. |
xx |
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Carr, Killing Time |
x |
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Jordan, Winter's Heart |
26 -16 |
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40 -17 |
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x |
9 -3 |
19 -2 |
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King, Dreamcatcher |
12 -8 |
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35 -10 |
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x |
xx |
xxx |
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Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye |
9 -2 |
xxx.. |
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25 -3 |
xxx.. |
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12 -1 |
xxx |
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McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern |
17 +2 |
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33 +7 |
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14 +1 |
10 ++ |
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Pratchett, The Truth |
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xx |
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x |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
xxx.. |
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9 -4 |
xxx.. |
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Sachar, Holes |
10 = |
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xxx.. |
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8 = |
xxx.. |
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Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales |
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18 -5 |
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Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales 2 |
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21 -1 |
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Tolkien, The Hobbit |
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3 +1 |
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3 = |
4 -2 |
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Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR |
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2 = |
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Tolkien, LOTR |
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7 -4 |
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xx |
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Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring |
xxx.. |
5 -3 |
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2 = |
x |
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2 = |
2 -1 |
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Tolkien, The Return of the King |
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x |
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11 -2 |
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5 = |
5 = |
9 ++ |
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Tolkien, The Silmarillion |
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x |
3 +1 |
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Tolkien, The Two Towers |
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6 = |
10 ++ |
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4 = |
3 +1 |
7 +2 |
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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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