SFFH on Bestseller Lists

24 March 2002

Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt (Bantam) moves up to #16 on Amazon's hardcover fiction list this week, clearing the #23 slot for the debut of Peter Hamilton's Fallen Dragon (Warner Aspect). In paperbacks, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine ranks at #22 on Amazon's list.
Title	NYT 3.31	LAT 3.24	SFC 3.24	USAT 3.21	WP 3.24	WSJ 3.22	London Times 3.24	PW 3.25	Book Sense 3.25	Amz (3.25)	Amz UK (3.25)
Items compiled from each list	30	15	15	50	10	10	10	15	15 hc, 5 pb	25	10
Hardcovers
Fforde, The Eyre Affair	x
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion	xxx.. (fic)						xx (gen)			xxx.. (fic)	xxx.. (nf)
Foster, Star Wars: The Approaching Storm	25 -3	xxx				xxx..		xxx
Hamilton, Fallen Dragon										23 ++
Harvard, Bored of the Rings							4 +2				5 +1 (nf)
Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven	31 -6	xxx..		xxx..		xxx..		xxx..		xx
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer	10 -4	xxx		xx	xxx..	11 -4		11 -4	xx	4 =
Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt										16 +7
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	5 =		xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		--	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire	1 =	xxx	xxx..	32 -5		6 -2		--	5 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	7 -5		xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		--	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	6 +1	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..		--	xxx..
Tolkien LotR		xxx..				xxx..				24 -3
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition										17 +
Tolkien LotR Illus. Alan Lee										xx
Trade Paperbacks
Miller/Varley, The Dark Knight Strikes Again Vol. 2										x
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts...	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..				2 =	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	2 =	xxx..	xxx..	26 -4			x		2 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire							x
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	3 =	xxx..	xxx..	37 -2			x	--	4 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	4 =	xxx..	xxx..	xx			x	--	7 =
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..				3 =	xxx..
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide	29 -9 (nf)						xxx.. (gen)	xxx..			xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring	xxx..						x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	x
Tolkien, The Hobbit		xxx..					x		xxx..	xx	xxx..
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR									xxx..	4 -2
Tolkien, LOTR		xxx..	xxx..	xx	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx	xxx..	xxx..
Tolkien, The Return of the King		xxx..					xx		xxx..		xxx..
Tolkien, The Two Towers		xxx..			xxx..		x		xxx..	xxx..	x
Mass Market Paperbacks
Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows	x
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies	7 +1 (nf)			xxx						16 -5
King, Dreamcatcher	xx			xxx..				xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye	xxx	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..
Koontz, Phantoms	22 +1			xx				xxx
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass	xxx..							x	x
Pullman, The Golden Compass									x
Rice, The Complete Vampire Chronicles										19 -9
Rice, The Queen of the Damned	xx			xx				xxx
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring		xxx..		x	xxx..			xx	9 +
Tolkien, The Hobbit				44 -10	xxx			xxx..	10 +
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR				xxx..						8 -1
Tolkien, The Return of the King				xxx				xxx..	xxx	xx
Tolkien, The Silmarillion									xxx..	23 -6
Tolkien, The Two Towers				x	xxx..			xxx	7 +	xx
Wells, The Time Machine										22 ++
	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.