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

= same as last week

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++ 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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posted 19 July 2005

Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian dominates this week's print lists -- the first five columns in the table below -- ranking #1, #2, or #4 on each one of them.

Of course, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, published last Saturday, continues to rank #1 on every online bookseller list -- the rightmost four columns of the table below. This has been true for months, but as a further indication of the impact of the new book, editions of the previous five books in the series have returned to the Amazon lists, both in hardcover and in paperback. (Note that this table doesn't attempt to track variant versions -- adult vs. children's, boxed, special, etc. -- that are distinguished on some of the Amazon lists; we're tracking the highest ranking hardcover and paper editions of each title, from each country, only.)

Meanwhile, we've added Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin) to the table, though it's already ranked on some lists for a few weeks now. And in other news, MaryJanice Davidson's Undead and Unappreciated (Berkley), though it's dropped off a couple Amazon lists, debuts this week on 3 print lists, as high as #13 on the Publishers Weekly hardcover fiction list.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.24
WP
07.17
SFC
07.17
USAT
07.10
PW
07.18
(ch 07.11)
Amz
(07.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.19)
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.19)
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 / 43 8 =     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.06.05 / 19 9 +1       xxx..        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception 04.10.05 / 15       55 -1 1 + 84 -33     x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (UK) 04.10.05 / 15             40 -32 10 -9  
Cunningham, Specimen Days 06.05.05 / 7 xx   6 = xxx xxx.. xxx..      
Davidson, Undead and Unappreciated 07.03.05 / 2 17 ++     93 ++ 13 ++ xx     xx
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 49 2 =     xxx.. 8 + xxx..     xxx..
Hobb, Shaman's Crossing (UK) 06.26.05 / 4             39 -3 5 -1  
Koontz, Velocity 06.05.05 / 7 18 -6 xxx   129 -40 x xxx..      
Kostova, The Historian 06.12.05 / 6 2 = 1 = 1 +1 4 +1 1 +1 8 -3     17 -13
Kostova, The Historian (UK) 07.03.05 / 3             8 +40 3 ++  
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 20           xxx..     36 +
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 21           10 -3 72 +   x
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 91 xxx..     xxx.. 2 + xxx..     xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 04.24.05 / 13 1 =     xxx.. 14 +        
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 25             60 -14 xxx.. xxx..
Robb, Origin in Death 07.10.05 / 2           76 -50     53 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   xxx..         24 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (CANADA) 07.17.05 / 1                 26 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 01.17.00 / 35 xxx..         25 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (CANADA) 07.17.05 / 1                 100 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 31           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 30             1 = 1 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 31                 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 93 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 12 +22      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 54             75 ++ xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (CANADA) 07.13.03 / 2                 16 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   xxx..         35 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (CANADA) 07.17.05 / 1                 46 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   xxx..         16 +67      
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk 04.03.05 / 16 6 -1     xxx.. 9 +        
Simmons, Olympos 06.19.05 / 5 x         x     77 +
Twelve Hawks, The Traveler 06.26.05 / 4 15 -2 5 +4   83 -20 11 -1 67 +15     76 +
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.24
WP
07.17
SFC
07.17
USAT
07.10
PW
07.18
(ch 07.11)
Amz
(07.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.19)
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.19)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Banks, The Algebraist (UK) 07.03.05 / 3             77 -36    
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 38       100 +5   xxx..     xxx..
Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [tpb] 07.17.05 / 1 1 ++     21 ++          
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 25 xxx..       13 +        
DuPrau, The People of Sparks 04.24.05 / 5 xxx..       12 +        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.29.05 / 8 8 =     x 3 +        
Funke, The Thief Lord 09.28.03 / 71 xxx..     xxx.. 15 +       xxx..
Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead 06.19.05 / 5 28 -6     38 ++ 12 +3 xx xxx   xxx..
Jordan, New Spring 06.12.05 / 6       145 +1          
Koontz, The Taking 05.08.05 / 11 xx xxx..   102 -27 xx        
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 9 3 +1     68 +17   47 -6      
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.12.05 / 5 6 +1     64 +          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 87 29 =   xxx.. 42 +3 9 -2 93 +     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 6     xxx..     xxx.. 99 -36    
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 61 xxx xxx.. xxx.. 103 -9 xxx.. 56 -16     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 29             7 +2    
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 31       133 =         xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 38       90 -6   xxx     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.08.05 / 11 2 =     60 =          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)               86 ++ xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 9                 56 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 129 xxx..   xxx.. 70 +3          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 29             37 + 3 +2  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 12                 14 +41
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 55 xxx..   xxx.. 41 +8 xxx.. 42 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)               35 ++ xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)               95 ++ xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 118 +25   99 ++      
Simmons, Ilium 07.17.05 / 1       150 ++          
Wells, The War of the Worlds 07.10.05 / 2       62 +53          
Wells, The War of the Worlds [tpb] 06.19.05 / 4             71 -32    
Wrede, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb] 04.17.05 / 14 5 =     135 -22       x  
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 24 xxx..   5 +1 xx          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.24
WP
07.17
SFC
07.17
USAT
07.10
PW
07.18
(ch 07.11)
Amz
(07.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.19)
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.19)
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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