Two books, both ties (one media, one gaming), debut on lists this week. Troy Denning's "Star Wars" novel The New Jedi Order: Star by Star (Lucas/Ballantine Del Rey) is on four lists, as high as #6; R.A. Salvatore's "Paths of Darkness" novel Sea of Swords (Wizards of the Coast) debuts on the same four lists, a notch or three below Denning's book on each. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novella, illustrated by Paul Kidby, The Last Hero (Gollancz), ranks #1 on both UK lists charted below, while the paperback of The Truth debuts at #2 on the Times of London's list. Dean Koontz's volume of funny verse, The Paper Doorway (HarperCollins), drops off the LA Times fiction hardcover list after ranking #1 there last week.
Title	NYT 18 Nov	LAT 11 Nov	SFC 11 Nov	USAT 7 Nov	WP 11 Nov	WSJ 9 Nov	London Times 11 Nov	PW 12 Nov	BookSense 12 Nov	Amz (11 Nov)	Amz UK [11 Nov]
Items compiled from each list	30	15	15	50	10	10	10	15	15 hc, 5 pb	25	10
Fiction hardcovers
Barker, Coldheart Canyon	xxx	x
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax	24 -7	xx		xxx..		xx	xxx..	x		20 -7	xxx..
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star	11 ++			25 ++		6 ++		9 ++
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains	20 -9	15 ++		xxx	xx	x		x		15 ++
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino	21 -6	13 ++	x	xxx	x	x		x	xxx	9 =
James Herbert, Once							8 =				8 +1
Jacques, Taggerung	6 -1		xxx..	xxx..		xxx		2 ++	xxx
King/Straub, Black House	10 -3	8 +6	xxx..	43 -13	xxx..	14 -5	7 +2	12 -4	x	5 -2	9 -2
Koontz, The Paper Doorway		x
Lackey, Take a Thief	x									x
Le Guin, The Other Wind		xxx	xx
Pratchett, The Last Hero							1 =				1 +2
Rice, Blood and Gold	7 -2	2 +8	x	15 -4	8 -3	5 -2		5 -2	x	3 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	4 +3		xxx..	xxx..		xxx	3	--	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire	1 =		xxx	21 +6		11 -3	4	--	5 +3
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	3 +1		xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	x	--	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	2 =		xxx..			xxx..	x	--	xxx..
Salvatore, Sea of Swords	14 ++			35 ++		8 ++		10 ++
Tolkien, LOTR boxed set										xx
Fiction paperbacks
Jacques, Lord Brocktree								6 ++
King, Hearts in Atlantis	15 -7	xxx		x				15 -4	x	xx
King/Straub, The Talisman	x			xxx..				xxx..		19 +2
Pratchett, The Truth							2 ++
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass	x								8 +
Rice, Merrick	34 -13			xx				x
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts...	xx		xxx..	xxx..			x	3 =	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	2 =		xxx..	3 =			4		2 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire							2
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	3 =	6 +	xxx..	5 +2			3	--	3 +
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	1 =	3 +1	xxx..	2 -1			1	--	1 +2
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages	x	1 +1	xxx..	xxx..				4 =	xxx..
Sachar, Holes	6 +3			xxx..				5 -3	xxx
Tolkien, The Hobbit		7 +		20 +1				10 -6	10 -6
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR				xxx..						4 +1 mm, 6 +1 tpb
Tolkien, LOTR/The Fellowship of the Ring	xxx..	xxx..		27 +10 (F)				x mm, xxx.. tpb	4 +2 (F)
	NYT	LAT	SFC	USAT	WP	WSJ	London	PW	BookSense	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.