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2 June 2002


Jean Auel's The Shelters of Stone still dominates lists, ranking in the top 4 on every list compiled in the table.

Presumably with interest in Harry Potter renewed by the release of the first movie's video and DVD, sales have bounced back of the paperbacks, at least on USA Today's list. Each book rose 30 or more positions to now rank in the top 25 of the paper's combined fiction/nonfiction, hardcover/paperback list.

Debuting this week: the UK paperback of James Herbert's Once, on Amazon UK's list.

Title NYT
6.09
LAT
6.02
SFC
6.02
USAT
5.30
WP
6.02
WSJ
5.31
London
Times
5.19

stale
PW
6.03
Book
Sense

6.03
Amz
(6.02)
Amz UK
(6.02)
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 21 =   10 -4   x   4 ++   x 20 -5 4 =
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 1 = 2 +1 3 -1 2 -1 4 -3 1 +1 1 ++ 1 = 2 -1 4 -2 1 =
Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity x                 x  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 3 =               2 =    
King, Everything's Eventual 14 -5 xx   x xxx.. 13 -1 x 12 +1 xxx 12 -3 xx
Pratchett/Stewart, The Science of Discworld II: The Globe             4 ++ gen       10 -2 (nf)
Reynolds, Sw: ATOC: Visual Dictionary       44 +4   12 +1   10 +1 nf     4 +1 nf
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- x    
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones 4 = 5 +3 xxx.. 10 -6 10 + 5 -1 3 +5 4 +1 x 8 +2 3 =
Vax, The Art of Star Wars Episode 2... 23 = (nf)                    
Trade Paperbacks
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 13 +32     x   x    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 4 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 19 +39     x -- 8 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 25 +65     x -- 7 +6    
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. x  
Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters 14 +1 (nf)                    
Mass Market Paperbacks
Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear                   xx  
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451   x                  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5 =               3 +4    
Gaiman, American Gods 15 +5     28 -7       8 -1 4 -1    
Herbert, Once                     6 ++
Pratchett, Thief of Time             5 ++       7 -2
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass                 15 +    
Pullman, The Golden Compass                 14 +    
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 19 -4     41 -12       14 -6      
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx..           21 +  
Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones 2 -1     20 -3         10 -6    
  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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