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5 May 2002


Star Wars Episode II rules the lists. The Salvatore novelization, which cracked Amazon UK's list last week, debuts on 7 other lists this week, and ranks #1 on 5 of the 8.

In addition, there are eight other SW titles on lists this week, including a kids' novelization of the film by Patricia C. Wrede, a spinoff children's hardcover novel by Terry Bisson, a visual dictionary, a guide to art, a guide to characters, and an illustrated companion that seems specific to the UK. Two "storybooks" for kids, by Jane Mason & Sarah Hines-Stephens and by Ryder Windham, are on the NYT children's list but not included in the table below.

More central to literary SF, Lois McMaster Bujold's Diplomatic Immunity (Baen) debuts on Amazon's hardcover list at #12, and among the runners-up on NYT's list at #25.

Title NYT
5.12
LAT
5.05
SFC
5.05
USAT
5.02
WP
5.05
WSJ
5.03
London
Times
5.05
PW
5.06
Book
Sense

5.06
Amz
(5.05)
Amz UK
(5.05)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Bisson, Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive 7 ++                    
Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity 25 ++                 12 ++  
Gemmell, Stormrider             x       x
Hamilton L, A Caress of Twilight 31 -5 xxx xx xxx..   xxx   xx   24 -2  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             x       xxx (nf)
King, Everything's Eventual 6 -3 8 -4   15 -4 10 + 6 -2 4 -1 6 -2 x 6 = 4 -1
Lackey, Gates of Sleep xx                    
Moore, Lamb   xxx xx                
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer x xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Reynolds, Sw: ATOC: Visual Dictionary       41 ++   8 ++   11 ++      
Ringo, When the Devil Dances xxx                 xxx  
Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt     x                
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban xx   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = xxx.. xxx.. xx   x   -- 6 +2    
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones 2 ++   8 ++ 1 ++   1 ++ 1 ++ 1 ++ 7 ++   1 +9
Vax, The Art of Star Wars Episode 2... 6 ++ (nf)                    
Trade Paperbacks
Hearn, SW Episode II: The Illustrated Companion             9 ++        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 39 +6     x   1 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 -1 xxx.. xxx.. x     x -- 7 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 4 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     x -- x    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide xx (nf)           xxx.. (gen) xxx..     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 15 -7  
Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters 11 ++ (nf)                    
Mass Market Paperbacks
Allston, The New Jedit Order: Rebel Dream 32 -5     x       14 -1   16 -7  
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451   3 -1                  
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 35 -3 (nf)     xxx..           xxx..  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx..           17 -11  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                   x  
Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones 1 ++     13 ++              
  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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