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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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September
 
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posted 12 September 2006

Terry Brooks' Armageddon's Children (Del Rey) debuts on print lists this week, ranking among the top 8 fiction hardcovers at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly.

Meanwhile, Haruki Murakami's collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Knopf) debuts at #1 on the San Francisco Chronicle fiction hardcover list. And it's #30 on the NYT list.

A heavily-buzzed new YA novel by Matthew Skelton, Endymion Spring (Delacorte), debuts this week at #2 and #3 on the NY Times and Publishers Weekly children's hardcover lists.

A new mass market paperback Star Wars novel by Karen Traviss, Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines (Del Rey), debuts impressively at #12 on the combined USA Today list; it's also #3 on the PW children's fiction list.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.17
WP
09.10
SFC
09.10
USAT
09.03
PW
09.11
(ch 09.11)
Amz
(09.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.12)
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 / 10 4 -2     xxx.. 2 +        
Brooks, Armageddon's Children 08.29.06 / 3 6 ++ 8 ++   40 ++ 4 ++ xx     x
Canavan, Last of the Wilds (UK) 08.01.06 / 7             59 -18    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony 09.12.06 / 1           48 ++     58 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 7             20 -5    
Egan, The Keep 08.01.06 / 7 32 +   x xx   xxx..      
Feist, Into a Dark Realm (UK) 08.29.06 / 3             15 -7    
Gemmell, Troy: Shield of Thunder (UK) 08.29.06 / 3             13 -4 7 ++  
Goodkind, Phantom 06.27.06 / 12 18 -4 xxx..   105 -29 9 -1 xxx..     x
Herbert/Anderson, Hunters of Dune 08.08.06 / 6 7 -4 7 -3 x 43 -26 6 -3 xx     xx
Herbert/Anderson, Hunters of Dune (UK) 09.05.06 / 2             70 -6    
Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 09.12.06 / 1 30 ++   1 ++            
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 80 3 =   xxx.. xxx 7 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 26               4 +3  
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 107 xxx..     xxx.. 6 + xxx..     xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever 05.23.06 / 17 5 =     xxx 5 + xxx..      
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 16             1 +11    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 88     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 19 +      
Skelton, Endymion Spring 09.12.06 / 1 2 ++       3 ++        
Smith, The Ruins 08.01.06 / 7 17 -5 x 9 -5 118 -41 13 -3 107 -45     xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.17
WP
09.10
SFC
09.10
USAT
09.03
PW
09.11
(ch 09.11)
Amz
(09.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 07.18.06 / 7 7 +       9 +        
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 61       116 -25   xxx..     xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 25 xxx..   5 -2 xxx..   xxx.. 61 ++    
King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower 09.12.06 / 1       84 ++          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 147 34 -14 xxx.. xxx.. 75 -18 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 114 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. 69 +29     xx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 87             39 -11    
Novik, His Majesty's Dragon 09.12.06 / 1                 31 ++
Novik, Throne of Jade 05.09.06 / 2       xxx..         94 ++
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 63       125 -20   xxx..     21 +
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 71 6 +2   xxx.. 122 +3          
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 05.09.06 / 13 xxx     xxx.. 12 +        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 8     xxx 17 -12   xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 98 xxx..   xxx.. 143 -40 xxx.. xxx..      
Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines 09.12.06 / 1       12 ++ 3 ++        
Twelve Hawks, The Traveler [tpb] 08.01.06 / 7 x     109 -36          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.17
WP
09.10
SFC
09.10
USAT
09.03
PW
09.11
(ch 09.11)
Amz
(09.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.12)
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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