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The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

= same as last week

+/- change since last week

+ back on list

++ new on list

x no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)


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. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

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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June
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 23 June 2005

Debuts this week: Michael Cunningham's literary SF/fantasy novel Specimen Days (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) appears on 4 published lists, as high as #6 in San Francisco. The last in Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen's Civil War trilogy, Never Call Retreat (St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne Books) appears on 2 lists. And Dan Simmons' Olympos, already out in the UK from Gollancz and appearing next Tuesday in the US from Eos, appears on both UK and US Amazon lists today.

J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ranks #1 this week on all three Amazon lists, with about 3 weeks to go before publication.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.26
WP
06.19
SFC
06.19
USAT
06.12
PW
06.20
(ch 06.13)
Amz
(06.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.23)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.23)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 09.13.04 / 39 8 +2     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.06.05 / 16 7 +1       x        
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) 08.09.04 / 30             35 +   xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception 04.10.05 / 11       63 -5 x 61 +9     9 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (UK) 04.10.05 / 11             25 -7 1 =  
Cunningham, Specimen Days 06.05.05 / 3 11 ++   6 ++ 88 ++ 13 ++ 70 -17      
Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana 06.12.05 / 2 34 -3                
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 45 2 =     xxx.. x xxx..     xxx..
Gingrich/Forstchen, Never Call Retreat 06.19.05 / 1 22 ++     115 ++          
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 04.10.05 / 11 xx   9 +1 xxx..   xxx..     xx
Koontz, Velocity 06.05.05 / 3 7 -2 8 -1   35 -12 9 -3 77 -15      
Kostova, The Historian 06.12.05 / 2           8 -5     13 +7
Luceno, The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 04.03.05 / 12       119 -25 xxx.. xxx   xx xx
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 17           16 +1 82 ++   99 -11
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 04.24.05 / 9 1 =     xxx x        
Pratchett/Cohen, Darwin's Watch: The Science of Discworld III (UK) 05.01.05 / 7             73 +3    
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 21             46 +11 xxx.. xxx..
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 05.22.05 / 5             57 +27    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 27           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 26             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 27                 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 89 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 81 +      
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk 04.03.05 / 12 5 =     xxx.. x        
Simmons, Olympos 06.19.05 / 1           59 ++      
Simmons, Olympos (UK) 06.19.05 / 1             87 ++    
Stover, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 03.20.05 / 14 18 -8 xx xxx.. 78 -27 15 -5 xxx     xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.26
WP
06.19
SFC
06.19
USAT
06.12
PW
06.20
(ch 06.13)
Amz
(06.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.23)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.23)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 04.10.05 / 11 34 +     128 -32 xx xxx      
Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [tpb] 03.20.05 / 12 xx     109 -35 xx xxx..     xxx..
Armstrong, Haunted 06.05.05 / 3 x     101 -39 x       xx
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 34       106 +25   71 +     xxx..
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.29.05 / 4 8 +     113 -11 x        
Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead 06.19.05 / 1             72 ++   27 ++
Jordan, New Spring 06.12.05 / 2       87 +8          
Koontz, The Taking 05.08.05 / 7 15 -8 xx   33 -5 7 +1        
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 5 6 ++     142 -18   85 -31      
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.12.05 / 2       133 -13          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 83 xxx..   xxx.. 41 +5 11 = 80 +     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 57 22 +12 xxx.. xxx.. 100 -13 xxx.. 37 +18     xxx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 25             18 -6    
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday (UK) 05.22.05 / 5             52 -7    
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 34       91 +12   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.08.05 / 7 1 +     51 +8          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 125 xxx..   xxx.. 108 +10          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 25             xxx.. 5 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 51 xxx..   xxx.. 69 +10 xxx.. xxx..      
Sherman/Cragg, Star Wars: Jedi Trial 06.12.05 / 2       132 -11          
Wells, The War of the Worlds [tpb] 06.19.05 / 1             58 ++    
Wrede, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb] 04.17.05 / 10 2 +     46 -11       4 -1  
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 20 xxx..   8 -2 141 +5          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.26
WP
06.19
SFC
06.19
USAT
06.12
PW
06.20
(ch 06.13)
Amz
(06.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.23)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.23)
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales [Italics and brackets, and/or this cell color, indicate stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before -- and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]
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