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The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

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+/- change since last week

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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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posted 17 October 2006

Laurell K. Hamilton's new collection Strange Candy (Berkley) debuts on 4 print lists this week, as high as #5 on Publishers Weekly's fiction hardcover list.

Other debuts include Mercedes Lackey's Aerie (DAW) at #28 on NY Times's list; Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian on paperback lists; and three books on NY Times' children's chapter book list: Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet (Simon & Schuster/McElderry) at #4, George R.R. Martin's The Ice Dragon (Starscape) at #6, and Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars (Dial) at #7.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.22
WP
10.15
SFC
10.15
USAT
10.08
PW
10.16
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.17)
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 / 15 9 -1     xxx.. x        
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars 10.17.06 / 1 7 ++                
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony 09.12.06 / 6       20 -4   46 -11     50 -16
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 12             66 +12 2 -1  
Feist, Into a Dark Realm (UK) 08.29.06 / 8             x 7 ++  
Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders 10.10.06 / 2 22 -8 x x x x        
Goodkind, Phantom 06.27.06 / 16 29 + xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Hamilton, Strange Candy 10.03.06 / 3 8 ++ 10 ++   36 ++ 5 ++ xx     x
Harris, Grave Surprise 10.10.06 / 2 25 -2                
Hearn, Harsh Cry of the Heron (UK) 10.17.06 / 1               5 ++  
Herbert/Anderson, Hunters of Dune 08.08.06 / 11 30 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx xxx..     xxx
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction 10.10.06 / 2 14 -3     106 -34 11 -2        
King, Lisey's Story 09.19.06 / 4           45 -20     8 +55
King, Lisey's Story (UK) 10.10.06 / 2             19 +49    
Lackey, Aerie 10.17.06 / 1 28 ++                
Martin, The Ice Dragon 10.17.06 / 1 6 ++                
McCarthy, The Road 09.26.06 / 4 7 -3 6 -1 2 -1 35 -15 4 -2 18 -6     18 +30
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet 10.17.06 / 1 4 ++                
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet (UK) 10.10.06 / 2             25 -15    
Morgan, Black Man (UK) 10.17.06 / 1             47 ++    
Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 09.12.06 / 6 xxx..   9 =            
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 85 2 =   xxx.. xx x xxx.. xxx..   xx
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 31               7 +1  
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition 10.10.06 / 2       135 -3          
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 21             10 -1 3 ++ 20 ++
Reynolds, Galactic North (UK) 10.17.06 / 1             73 ++    
Skelton, Endymion Spring 09.12.06 / 6 5 +1       x        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.22
WP
10.15
SFC
10.15
USAT
10.08
PW
10.16
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.17)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 07.18.06 / 10 10 -1       x        
Gaiman, Anansi Boys 10.10.06 / 2 30 ++     51 +22          
Kostova, The Historian [tpb] 10.17.06 / 1 34 ++     67 ++ 14 ++        
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 2 29 +5     47 +3 12 -2        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 152 xx xxx.. xxx.. 55 +22 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 4 x     65 -24 9 -1       33 +35
Morrell, Creepers 10.17.06 / 1       130 ++          
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 76 4 =   xxx.. 117 -12          
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 05.09.06 / 16 9 +1     xxx.. xxx..        
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 09.19.06 / 5             31 -10 9 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 13     xxx.. 57 -10   xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.22
WP
10.15
SFC
10.15
USAT
10.08
PW
10.16
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.17)
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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