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23 December 2001


Tolkien sales continue to rise. The Hobbit and the individual books of the trilogy occupy the first four positions of BookSense's mass market paperback list this week. The hardcover edition of the trilogy is up to #7 on Amazon's list, with a "Collector's Edition" of same ranking #8.

King & Straub's Black House also shows a boost this week, returning to three lists it had dropped off of.

In lieu of a weekly list, the Times of London posts overall 2001 bestsellers. Four of the top fiction hardcovers are fantasy or horror: Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time ranks #1 (with 128,845 copies sold), Pratchett & Kidby's The Last Hero is #5 (83,416), King & Straub's Black House is #8 (63,255), and King's Dreamcatcher is #10 (57,074). On the children's list, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is #1 (with 200,371 copies sold), and Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is #3 (69,796)

PW's children's list is updated for December this week.

Title NYT
12.30
LAT
12.23
SFC
12.23
USAT
12.20
WP
12.23
WSJ
12.21
London
Times
12.16
stale
PW
12.24
Book
Sense

12.24
Amz
(12.23)
Amz UK
(12.23)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star 33 -2 xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx  
Fisher, LOTR Visual Companion 29 +6                    
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 19 -1 x   xx   xx   x   24 -3  
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx  
Jacques, Taggerung 9 =   xxx xxx..   xxx..   2 = xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 10 +3 xxx.. xxx 47 -4 xxx.. 15 + xxx.. 12 + xxx.. 16 -3 10 +
Pratchett, The Last Hero             2 -1       1 +1
Rice, Blood and Gold 17 = x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xx xxx.. 21 -3  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 4 =   xxx.. xxx..   9 +4   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = x 10 -4 6 =   2 =   -- 4 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 =   xxx.. xxx..   x   -- xx    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 = x xxx..     4 +1   -- 10 -3    
Salvatore, Sea of Swords 34 =     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..   xxx  
Tolkien LotR                   7 +5  
Tolkien LotR Collector's Edition                   8 ++  
Fiction paperbacks
Card, Shadow of the Hegemon 24 +1               x 24 -5  
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen 32 =     xxx..       xxx xxx..    
King, Dreamcatcher 3 =     33 -21       4 +1 8 = 25 -1  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 2 = x   22 -7 xx     5 -2 9 +    
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation 26 +2     xxx..       xx      
Pratchett, The Truth             3 -1       3 -1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx..             5 -4 xxx..    
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 7 =   xxx.. xxx..       3 +3 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 = 3 +3 xxx 4 =     9   3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             8        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = 6 -4 xx 3 =     7 -- 2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 7 -3 xx 2 -1     6 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 6 +2   xxx.. xxx..       4 +3 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes xxx     xxx..       8 -4 xxx..    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   x   9 -1       2 +2 2 = 9 +1  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       12 +1         xxx.. tpb 2 = mm, 1 = tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR       10 +7 xx   4 +2 1 +3 4 +3 tpb 15 +2 mm, xx tpb 4 +4
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. x   5 +2     1 +7 1 +1 mm, 5 = tpb 1 = mm 22 + 1 +2
Tolkien, The Return of the King               10 +2 4 +3    
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                   13 +2  
Tolkien, The Two Towers       43 -1       6 +1 3 +2    
Nonfiction paperbacks
Kronzek & Kronzek, The Sorcerer's Companion 10 = pb                    
  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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