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Terry Goodkind
Scott Smith
Trudi Canavan
Eoin Colfer

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Kim Harrison

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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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posted 8 August 2006

Terry Goodkind's Phantom (Tor) still ranks high on several lists, placing #1 at Publishers Weekly.

Two other books debut on print lists this week: Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts: The Grapple (Del Rey), and Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory's When Darkness Falls (Tor). Both are runners-up on the NY Times fiction hardcover list, and rank low on Amazon's list.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.13
WP
08.06
SFC
08.06
USAT
07.30
PW
08.07
(ch 06.12)
Amz
(08.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.08)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Shadow Thieves 07.11.06 / 5 1 =     123 -30          
Canavan, Last of the Wilds (UK) 08.01.06 / 2             18 -3    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 2             1 +1    
Egan, The Keep 08.01.06 / 2           82 -39      
Goodkind, Phantom 06.27.06 / 7 2 -1 3 -1   12 -8 1 = 73 -45     17 -12
Goodkind, Phantom (UK) 07.04.06 / 6             41 + 1 =  
Hamilton, Danse Macabre 06.20.06 / 8 18 -5 xx xxx 147 -74 x xxx     54 +
Herbert/Anderson, Hunters of Dune 08.08.06 / 1                 50 ++
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 44             50 -2   xxx..
Lackey/Mallory, When Darkness Falls 08.08.06 / 1 20 ++     137 ++          
McCaffrey/McCaffrey, Dragon's Fire 06.27.06 / 4 28 =     xx   xxx..      
Nix, Shade's Children (UK) 08.08.06 / 1             45 ++    
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 75 2 =   xxx.. 134 -9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever 05.23.06 / 12 4 -1     xx xxx.. xxx..      
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 11             60 -10    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 80             xxx.. 2 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 65                 16 +1
Smith, The Ruins 08.01.06 / 2 5 = 5 -1 2 +1 25 -16 4 -1 11 -1     26 ++
Turtledove, Settling Accounts: The Grapple 07.25.06 / 2 23 ++     135 ++   xx      
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of the Dwarven Depths 07.25.06 / 3 25 +9                
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.13
WP
08.06
SFC
08.06
USAT
07.30
PW
08.07
(ch 06.12)
Amz
(08.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Anderson, Of Fire and Night (UK) [tpb] 08.01.06 / 2             39 -13    
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 07.18.06 / 4 7 +3                
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 56       110 -27   xxx..     xxx..
Harrison, A Fistful of Charms 06.20.06 / 8 xx xxx..   146 -66 xx xxx.. x   xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 20 xxx..   2 +3 xxx..   xxx..      
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 142 28 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 31 -5 15 -1 xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 109 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 130 -17 xxx.. 79 -10     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 82             7 -2    
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 58       117 -12   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 66 5 -2   xxx.. 112 -3          
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 05.09.06 / 11 10 +     xxx.. xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 3     9 ++ 1 ++   55 -25      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 93 xxx..   xxx.. 102 + xxx.. xxx..      
Twelve Hawks, The Traveler [tpb] 08.01.06 / 2 35 -13     36 =          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.13
WP
08.06
SFC
08.06
USAT
07.30
PW
08.07
(ch 06.12)
Amz
(08.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.08)
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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