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27 January 2002


Tolkien titles slip a bit but still rank high on numerous lists. The highest ranking new hardcover is Dean Koontz's One Door Away from Heaven, which dropped sharply at USA Today but still ranks in the top 10 on five other lists.

Title NYT
2.03

(pb)
LAT
1.27
(pb)
SFC
1.27
USAT
1.24
WP
1.27
WSJ
1.25
London
Times
1.27
PW
1.28
Book
Sense

1.29
Amz
(1.27)
Amz UK
(1.27)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion x (fic)           3 -1 (gen)     x (fic) 6 -1 (nf)
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 27 -2 xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             3 +1        
Jacques, Taggerung xxx   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   6 -4 xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 32 -4 xxx xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx xx
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven 4 -3 2 +3   43 -13   8 -2   8 -4   8 -2  
McCaffrey/Scarborough, Acorna's Search x                    
Pratchett, The Last Hero             10 -5       9 -5
Rice, Blood and Gold x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 =   xxx.. xxx..   x   -- 9 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = 8 +4 9 + 17 -3   3 -2   -- 3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 =   xxx.. xxx..   x   -- x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 5 -1 xxx.. xxx..     xx   -- x    
Salvatore, Sea of Swords xx     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..  
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide xx                 xx  
Tolkien LotR   13 +       xx       6 -3  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   10 -5  
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee                   x  
Trade Paperbacks
Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody                   x  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings                   x  
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 10 -3   xxx.. xxx..       4 +1 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 = x xxx.. 7 -2     9   2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             8        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 1 = xx xxx.. 8 -4     7 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = xx xxx.. 13 -4     6 -- 4 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages x   xxx.. xxx..       5 -1 x    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide 3 = (nf)           10 -2 (gen) 9 =     x (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx..           2 = 13 + 7 -1 17 -4 2 =
Tolkien, The Hobbit   9 -7             8 = 12 -6 7 =
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 1 =  
Tolkien, LOTR   5 -1 9 -3 15 -8 10 -8   6 -1 3 -1 5 -4 xx x
Tolkien, The Return of the King   10 +         7 =   x   8 =
Tolkien, The Two Towers   2 +1     x   5 -1   11 -2 xx 5 =
Mass Market Paperbacks
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon xxx               xxx.. xxx  
Carr, Killing Time 30 +                    
Jordan, Winter's Heart 23 +3     x       xx x 21 -2  
King, Dreamcatcher 14 -2     36 -1       xx xxx xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 13 -4 xxx..   26 -1 xxx..     13 -1 xxx..    
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern 18 -1     40 -7       15 -1 x    
Pratchett, The Truth             xxx       xx
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             9 -4 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes 9 +1     xxx..       8 = xxx..    
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales                   18 =  
Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales 2                   x  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   4 +1   3 -1 xx     2 = 3 -1    
Tolkien, The Hobbit       4 -1       4 -1 4 =    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       20 -10           3 -1  
Tolkien, LOTR                   xxx  
Tolkien, The Return of the King       16 -5       9 -4 5 = 15 -6  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                 xx 11 -8  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       9 -3 x     5 -1 2 +1 14 -7  
  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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