SFFH on Bestseller Lists

19 May 2002

Jean Auel's The Shelters of Stone extends its dominance this week, debuting on four additional lists, including both UK lists, and ranking at #1 on all but one list. (That one list, BookSense, has not been updated for a second week in a row.) New on the lists is Douglas Adams's The Salmon of Doubt, ranking high in the UK and in San Francisco, running-up in New York. Also new in the UK is the second Science of Discworld book by Terry Pratchett and collaborators; it debuts in the top five on both UK lists, while the paperback of Pratchett's Thief of Time debuts on both UK paperback lists.
Title	NYT 5.26	LAT 5.19	SFC 5.19	USAT 5.16	WP 5.19	WSJ 5.17	London Times 5.19	PW 5.20	Book Sense 5.06 stale	Amz (5.19)	Amz UK (5.19)
Items compiled from each list	30	15	15	50	10	10	10	15	15 hc, 5 pb	25	10
Hardcovers
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt	26 ++		7 ++				4 ++				5 ++
Auel, The Shelters of Stone	1 =	4 +3	1 +1	1 =	1 ++	1 =	1 ++	1 =		1 ++	1 ++
Bisson, Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive	xx
Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity	34 -9									13 +1
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	2 +3
Gemmell, Stormrider							x				xxx
Harvard, Bored of the Rings							x				xxx.. (nf)
King, Everything's Eventual	8 =	8 +2		24 +4	xx	8 =	x	9 -2	x	7 +1	6 -2
Pratchett/Stewart, The Science of Discworld II: The Globe							4 ++ gen				5 ++ (nf)
Reynolds, Sw: ATOC: Visual Dictionary				xx		14 -4		14 -2			6 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire	3 -2	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx		--	6 +2
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones	3 =	7 +4	xx	8 -6	x	4 -2	3 +5	4 -2	7 ++	10 -6	3 -2
Vax, The Art of Star Wars Episode 2...	26 -4 (nf)
Trade Paperbacks
Hearn, SW Episode II: The Illustrated Companion							xx
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	2 =	xxx..	xxx..	xx			x		1 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	3 =	xxx..	xxx..	xxx			x	--	7 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	4 =	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			x	--	x
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR									xxx..	18 -2
Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters	26 -11 (nf)
Mass Market Paperbacks
Allston, The New Jedi Order: Rebel Dream	xx			xxx				xx		xx
Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear										24 ++
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451		3 -1
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	7 ++
Gaiman, American Gods	31 +4			35 +10				10 ++
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies	xx (nf)			xxx..						xxx..
Pratchett, Thief of Time							5 ++				4 ++
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer	14 +1			38 -5				9 +2
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR				xxx..						23 -9
Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones	1 =			25 -11
	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.