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= 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 10 October 2006

Neil Gaiman's new collection Fragile Things (William Morrow) debuts impressively this week on all 5 print lists compiled here, as high as #6 on the fiction hardcover lists of Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle.

Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalypse literary novel The Road (Knopf) debuts even stronger, ranking #1 on the fiction hardcover list at San Francisco Chronicle, #2 at Publishers Weekly.

Other debuts include a Star Wars novel by Drew Karpyshyn on 3 lists, the paperback of George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows on 3 lists, and the trade paperback of Gregory Maguire's Son of a Witch on 3 lists.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.15
WP
10.08
SFC
10.08
USAT
10.01
PW
10.09
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.10)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.10)
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 / 14 8 -4     xxx.. 8 +        
Brooks, Armageddon's Children 08.29.06 / 7 31 -10 xxx..   x xx xxx..     xxx..
Canavan, Last of the Wilds (UK) 08.01.06 / 10             97 +    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony 09.12.06 / 5       16 -13   35 +6     34 -26
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 11             78 -27 1 =  
Feist, Into a Dark Realm (UK) 08.29.06 / 7             67 +26    
Gaiman, Fragile Things 10.10.06 / 1 14 ++ 6 ++ 6 ++ 117 ++ 13 ++        
Gemmell, Troy: Shield of Thunder (UK) 08.29.06 / 7             53 +34 xxx  
Hamilton, Strange Candy 10.03.06 / 2           x     92 ++
Harris, Grave Surprise 10.10.06 / 1 23 ++                
Herbert/Anderson, Hunters of Dune 08.08.06 / 10 29 -6 xxx.. xxx.. xx xx xxx..     xx
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction 10.10.06 / 1 11 ++     72 ++ 9 ++        
King, Lisey's Story 09.19.06 / 3           25 ++     63 -22
King, Lisey's Story (UK) 10.10.06 / 1             68 ++    
McCarthy, The Road 09.26.06 / 3 4 ++ 5 ++ 1 ++ 20 ++ 2 ++ 12 +4     48 +
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet (UK) 10.10.06 / 1             10 ++    
Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 09.12.06 / 5 xxx..   9 -6            
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 84 2 +1   xxx.. x 4 + xxx.. xxx..   x
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 30               8 =  
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition 10.10.06 / 1       132 ++          
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 108 xxx..     xxx.. 2 + xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Wintersmith 09.26.06 / 2 3 ++       14 ++ xx      
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 20             9 -4    
Skelton, Endymion Spring 09.12.06 / 5 6 -4       5 +        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.15
WP
10.08
SFC
10.08
USAT
10.01
PW
10.09
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.10)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.10)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 07.18.06 / 9 9 +       7 +        
Elrod, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding [tpb] 10.03.06 / 2           86 -52     x
Gaiman, Anansi Boys 10.10.06 / 1       73 ++          
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 29 xxx..   10 -3 xxx..   xxx.. xxx    
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 1 34 ++     50 ++ 10 ++        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 151 x xxx.. xxx.. 77 +9 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 3 17 ++     41 ++ 8 ++       68 +
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 90             94 +    
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (UK) [tpb] 02.21.06 / 9             95 +    
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 75 4 =   xxx.. 105 -10          
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 05.09.06 / 15 10 +     xxx.. xxx..        
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 09.19.06 / 4             21 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 12     xxx.. 47 -15   xxx..      
Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines 09.12.06 / 5 xx     134 -70 x        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.15
WP
10.08
SFC
10.08
USAT
10.01
PW
10.09
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.10)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.10)
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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