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28 April 2002


The novelization of the new Star Wars movie by R.A. Salvatore, just released in the US and UK, has already cracked Amazon UK's hardcover fiction list, at #10.

Presumably as a result of his signing at Cody's Books in Berkeley on April 19, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt places #6 on this week's San Francisco Chronicle list.

Stephen King's Everything's Eventual slips just a bit this week, but is still the best/broadest-selling genre book on this week's chart. In the UK, David Gemmell's Stormrider ranks #7 on both lists, just like last week.

In one of those odd quirks (mistakes?) of bestsellers lists, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 placed #1 on LAT paperback list 2 weeks ago (it's the pick for the city-wide reading program in April), was not on the list at all 1 week ago, but is back at #2 this week.

This table isn't tracking Spider-Man books, but at least 3 tie-ins to the forthcoming film are on this week's New York Times lists this week.

Title NYT
5.05
LAT
4.28
SFC
4.28
USAT
4.25
WP
4.28
WSJ
4.26
London
Times
4.28
PW
4.29
Book
Sense

4.29
Amz
(4.28)
Amz UK
(4.28)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Hardcovers
Gemmell, Stormrider             7 =       7 =
Hamilton L, A Caress of Twilight 26 -6 xx x xxx   xx   x   22 -6  
Harvard, Bored of the Rings             8 =       xx (nf)
King, Everything's Eventual 3 -1 4 =   11 -3 x 4 -2 3 = 4 -2 9 = 6 -2 3 =
Lackey, Gates of Sleep x                    
Moore, Lamb   xx x                
Reardon, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 34 -4 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx  
Ringo, When the Devil Dances xx                 x  
Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt     6 ++                
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban x   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = xxx.. xxx.. x   12 -3   -- 8 =    
Salvatore, SW2: Attack of the Clones                     10 ++
Trade Paperbacks
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 1 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 45 -10     x   3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 49 -1     x -- 5 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 5 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     x -- 13 =    
Sibley, LOTR Official Movie Guide x (nf)           xxx.. (gen) xxx..     xxx.. (nf)
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR                 xxx.. 8 -2  
Mass Market Paperbacks
Allston, The New Jedit Order: Rebel Dream 27 -4     48 -11       13 +1   9 +1  
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451   2 +                  
Keel, The Mothman Prophecies 32 -1 (nf)     xxx..           xxx..  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       xxx..           6 +7  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                   25 +  
  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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