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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:
November
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 7 November 2006

Stephen King's Lisey's Story (Scribner) unsurprisingly debuts at #1 on four of the five print lists compiled here.

Also, Tamora Pierce's new YA novel Beka Cooper: Terrier (Random House) debuts at #2 on New York Times' children's chapter book list, and R.A. Salvatore's Road of the Patriarch (Wizards of the Coast) debuts at #13 at NY Times, #9 at Publishers Weekly, and #35 at USA Today.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.12
WP
11.05
SFC
11.05
USAT
10.29
PW
11.06
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(11.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.07)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars 10.17.06 / 4 9 +1                
Bradbury, Farewell Summer 10.31.06 / 2 31 +2                
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 10.24.06 / 3 27 -4         x     x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony 09.12.06 / 9       59 -24   63 +10     53 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 15             xx 4 -2  
Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders 10.10.06 / 5 x xxx.. 10 = xxx.. xxx..        
Hamilton, Strange Candy 10.03.06 / 6 24 -7 xxx   x x xxx..     xxx..
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction 10.10.06 / 5 28 -7     xx xx        
King, Lisey's Story 09.19.06 / 7 1 ++ 1 ++   1 ++ 1 ++ 17 -8     19 -13
King, Lisey's Story (UK) 10.10.06 / 5             16 -1 10 ++  
McCarthy, The Road 09.26.06 / 7 15 -3 xx 2 = 66 -18 11 -2 52 -33 77 ++   59 +
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet 10.17.06 / 4 6 -3                
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 88 3 -1   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   74 +
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 34               9 =  
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition 10.10.06 / 5       131 +11          
Pierce, Beka Cooper: Terrier 11.07.06 / 1 2 ++     101 ++          
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 24             14 = xx 61 +
Salvatore, Road of the Patriarch: The Sellswords, Book III 10.24.06 / 3 13 ++     35 ++ 9 ++ xx     x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.12
WP
11.05
SFC
11.05
USAT
10.29
PW
11.06
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(11.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.07)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Gaiman, Anansi Boys 10.10.06 / 5 x     86 -19          
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 31 xxx..   10 -3 xxx..   xxx.. xxx..    
Kostova, The Historian [tpb] 10.17.06 / 4 18 -1 5 +1   43 -11 8 +        
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 5 29 -2     80 -21 xx        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 155 20 = xxx.. xxx.. 55 -10 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 7 xxx..     121 -3 x       x
Morrell, Creepers 10.17.06 / 4 35 -3     108 -20          
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb] 10.31.06 / 2           67 -45     43 -31
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 11.07.06 / 1             61 ++    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 28             81 + 5 +5  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 79 1 +1   xxx.. 30 +52          
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 09.19.06 / 8             43 +9 xx  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 16     xxx.. 89 -18   xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.12
WP
11.05
SFC
11.05
USAT
10.29
PW
11.06
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(11.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.07)
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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