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30 June 2002


Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's latest Dragonlance volume, third in the trilogy "The War of Souls", debuts on four lists this week, in the top 10 on three of them.

In Britain, the paperback of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher reaches #1 on both UK lists charted below.

Titles still going strong: Jean Auel. Holding on a few lists: Douglas Adams. Slipping: R.A. Salvatore's Star Wars novelization.

Title NYT
7.07
LAT
6.30
SFC
6.30
USAT
6.27
WP
6.30
WSJ
6.27
Bookseller [UK] (6.30) PW
7.01
Book
Sense

6.31
Amz
(6.30)
Amz UK
(6.30)
Items on list [x] number of lists surveyed 30x5 15x4 10x3 50 10x4 10x2 10x6 15x5 15x6 25x4 10x4
Hardcovers
Adams, The Salmon of Doubt x   x   xxx..   5 -2   xx 22 -4 4 -1
Auel, The Shelters of Stone 8 -4 x 9 -2 18 -5 7 + 9 -4 2 -1 7 -3 8 -4 9 -2 2 -1
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident 5 =           1 = 2 ++ 5 +1    
King, Everything's Eventual 21 -4 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. x   xxx xxx.. 20 -3 xxx..
McCaffrey, Freedom's Ransom x                    
Reynolds, Sw: ATOC: Visual Dictionary       xxx..   xxx   xx nf     xx nf
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban xx                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets xx                    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 28 +4   xxx..   -- 9 =    
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones 19 -3 xxx xxx.. xx xxx.. xx   xx xxx.. xx xx
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Vanished Moon 10 ++     30 ++   8 ++    10++       
Paperbacks
Allston, New Jedi Order: Rebel Stand 32 -9     x       x   x  
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451   10 +               16 +3  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl 5 =           5 +1 4 + 4 +1    
Gaiman, American Gods xxx     xxx       xxx xx    
Herbert, Once             x       x
King, Dreamcatcher             1 +1       1 +1
Koontz, The Door to December 13 -3     39 -6       13 -2      
Martin, A Storm of Swords                   22 +  
Pratchett, Thief of Time                     xx
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass             7 =   xxx    
Pullman, The Golden Compass [UK Northern Lights]             6 -1   xxx    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife             8 =        
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer xxx     xxx..       xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 2 = xxx.. xxx.. 9 +3     4 -1   8 -4    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Fire             2 =        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 1 = xxx.. xxx.. 7 +4     3 +1   3 -1    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 3 = xxx.. xxx.. 19 -1     9 =   13 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter: Celebratory Edition             x        
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR (mm)       xxx..           19 +1  
Wallace, SW New Essential Guide to Characters xx (nf)                    
Watson, Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice xx                    
Wrede, SW 2: Attack of the Clones 6 -2     x         12 =    
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ Bookseller 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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