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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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Locus Bestsellers, compiled from sales at specialty stores:
January
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 7 February 2006

Stephen King's Cell (Scribner) debuts strongly on all 5 print lists compiled here, ranking #1 on 4 of them (in San Francisco Julian Barnes is #1), as anticipated. The UK edition ranks low on that country's Amazon chart; the edition there goes on sale February 27.

A new mass-market paperback edition of King's The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (Pocket) debuts this week on 2 lists.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.12
WP
02.05
SFC
02.05
USAT
01.29
PW
02.06
(ch 01.16)
Amz
(02.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(02.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.07)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 21 4 =     xxx.. xxx xxx..     xxx..
King, Cell 12.13.05 / 9 1 ++ 1 ++ 3 ++ 1 ++ 1 ++ 4 -1     2 +5
King, Cell (UK) 02.07.06 / 1             72 ++    
Koontz, Forever Odd 11.29.05 / 11 30 -9 xxx..   xxx xxx.. xxx..      
Maguire, Son of a Witch 09.20.05 / 21 26 -2 xxx.. x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 45 31 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     x
Oppel, Skybreaker 01.31.06 / 2 5 +5                
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 49 2 =   xxx 59 -10 xxx 79 +14 xxx..   xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 60     xxx.. 82 -4 xxx 20 +4      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 57             55 + xx  
Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate 12.27.05 / 7       119 -28 xxx 77 +11     x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.12
WP
02.05
SFC
02.05
USAT
01.29
PW
02.06
(ch 01.16)
Amz
(02.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(02.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.07)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Canavan, Priestess of the White (UK) 02.07.06 / 1             26 ++    
Crichton, State of Fear 11.08.05 / 14 19 +2 xxx..   45 -6 9 -1       xxx..
Denning, Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book III: The Swarm War 01.10.06 / 5 xx     141 -49 xx        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 34 7 -2     xxx.. xxx        
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 02.07.06 / 1 25 ++     28 ++          
Koontz, Life Expectancy 11.08.05 / 14 x xxx..   148 -15 xxx..        
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 38 1 =     17 -10   26 -4     xxx..
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.14.05 / 34 2 =     24 -15          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 116 13 = 7 -1 xxx.. 16 +1 6 = 46 +17     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 85 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 110 + xxx.. 95 -16     46 -26
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 57             5 +2    
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 40 3 =   xxx.. 90 -9          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 84 xxx..   xxx.. 134 -35 xxx.. xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.12
WP
02.05
SFC
02.05
USAT
01.29
PW
02.06
(ch 01.16)
Amz
(02.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(02.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.07)
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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