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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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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 8 November 2005

R.A. Salvatore's Promise of the Witch-King, a new 'Forgotten Realms' novel from Wizards of the Coast [description], debuts on 3 print lists this week, as high as #12 on Publishers Weekly's fiction hardcover list.

Mass market paperback reprints of two bestsellers from late last year debut this week, Michael Crichton's State of Fear on 4 lists, ranking #1 on 3 of them, Dean Koontz' Life Expectancy also on 4 lists.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.13
WP
11.06
SFC
11.06
USAT
10.30
PW
11.07
(ch 10.10)
Amz
(11.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.08)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Davidson, Undead and Unreturnable 10.18.05 / 2 27 ++     105 ++   xxx      
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 64 7 +1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 8 2 =     94 -30 xxx 81 -7     33 +
Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes 10.11.05 / 5 14 -4 xx xx 55 -22 11 -4 75 -16     42 -20
Gaiman, Anansi Boys 09.13.05 / 9 34 -12 xxx.. x xx xxx xxx..     x
Hamilton, Judas Unchained (UK) 08.30.05 / 10             61 -4    
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 08.16.05 / 13 5 -3 5 -3 x 14 -10 4 -2 29 -1     14 -7
Jordan, Knife of Dreams (UK) 09.06.05 / 10             54 -19 3 +  
Kostova, The Historian 06.14.05 / 22 26 -8 xxx.. xxx.. 134 -17 xx x     xxx..
Lee, The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook 11.08.05 / 1     6 ++            
Maguire, Son of a Witch 09.20.05 / 8 9 -2 x 8 -5 51 -22 8 -3 80 -26     51 +
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 32           2 +17     2 +6
Martin, A Feast for Crows (UK) 09.06.05 / 10             74 -53 5 +  
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 36 1 =   xx 29 -19 xxx 46 = 55 -15   18 +
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 7               2 +  
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 05.24.05 / 23             16 -6 xx xxx
Pratchett, Where's My Cow? (UK) 07.05.05 / 14             75 -5   xxx
Reynolds, Pushing Ice (UK) 11.01.05 / 2             83 -37    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 47     xxx 34 -13 xxx 18 -3      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 45             57 -14 3 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 45                 44 +22
Salvatore, Promise of the Witch-King: The Sellswords, Book II 11.08.05 / 1 15 ++     50 ++ 12 ++        
Weber, At All Costs 10.25.05 / 2       62 ++   xx      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.13
WP
11.06
SFC
11.06
USAT
10.30
PW
11.07
(ch 10.10)
Amz
(11.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Crichton, State of Fear 11.08.05 / 1 1 ++ 1 ++   6 ++ 1 ++        
Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [tpb] 07.19.05 / 14 10 +     xxx.. xxx..        
Denning, Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book II: The Unseen Queen 10.11.05 / 5 x     125 -32 xx        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 21 7 =     xxx.. xxx        
Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (UK) [tpb] 10.11.05 / 5             86 -19 xx  
King, The Colorado Kid 10.18.05 / 4 17 -11 xx   41 -27 7 -5        
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (UK) [tpb] 11.08.05 / 1             64 ++    
Koontz, Life Expectancy 11.08.05 / 1 5 ++ 8 ++   9 ++ 4 ++        
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 25 1 =     13 +22   15 +22     11 +46
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.14.05 / 21 2 +1     18 +6          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 103 13 -5 7 -2 3 +3 23 -10 3 = 44 -3     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 77 xxx.. xxx.. 4 + xx xxx.. x     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 44             10 -1    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 21             xxx.. 5 +  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 27 3 -1   xxx.. 44 -14          
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 10.04.05 / 6             50 -23    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 145 xxx..   xxx.. 104 -1          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 71 xxx..   xxx.. 130 -1 xxx.. xxx..      
Vaughn, Kitty and the Midnight Hour 11.08.05 / 1       129 ++          
Whedon, Serenity: The Official Visual Companion [tpb] 10.04.05 / 3           xxx..     50 -23
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.13
WP
11.06
SFC
11.06
USAT
10.30
PW
11.07
(ch 10.10)
Amz
(11.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.08)
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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