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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 21 November 2006

Michael Crichton's next novel, called Next (HarperCollins), and which seems to be about genetic engineering, ranks #23 on Amazon's list today with pre-orders. The book goes on sale November 28th.

Australian bookseller Dymocks has a slick redesigned website, but the redesign has either eliminated, or made difficult to find, its categorized bestseller lists. More next week.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.26
WP
11.19
SFC
11.19
USAT
11.12
PW
11.20
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(11.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.21)
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 / 19 10 -2     xxx.. xxx..        
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars 10.17.06 / 5 6 +                
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 10.24.06 / 5 35 -9         xxx     x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony 09.12.06 / 11       72 +9   59 +13     75 -23
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 17             80 +5 [ 4 ]  
Crichton, Next 11.14.06 / 2           23 +48      
King, Lisey's Story 09.19.06 / 9 5 -2 6 -2 9 -3 14 -10 5 -2 22 -1     12 +7
King, Lisey's Story (UK) 10.10.06 / 7             52 -23 [ 10 ]  
McCarthy, The Road 09.26.06 / 9 21 -3 xxx.. 5 -3 131 -36 x 48 -16 x   xx
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 90 1 =   7 + xxx.. xxx.. 66 + xxx..   xx
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition 10.10.06 / 7       83 +23          
Pierce, Beka Cooper: Terrier 11.07.06 / 3 4 =     xx       [ 8 ]  
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 26             20 -5   94 +
Salvatore, Road of the Patriarch: The Sellswords, Book III 10.24.06 / 5 20 -4     122 -38 x xxx..     xxx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.26
WP
11.19
SFC
11.19
USAT
11.12
PW
11.20
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(11.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.21)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 40 9 +     xxx.. xxx..        
Kostova, The Historian [tpb] 10.17.06 / 6 30 -2 xx   84 -22 x        
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 7 xx     95 -7 xxx..        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 157 25 +5 xxx.. xxx.. 80 -6 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb] 10.31.06 / 4 14 -1 x   29 -5 3 -1 x     73 -17
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 11.07.06 / 3             72 +5    
Paolini, Eragon 11.14.06 / 2       16 +1          
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 30             84 +4 [ 5 ]  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 81 1 =   xxx.. xx          
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 09.19.06 / 10             68 -5    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 18     xxx.. 97 +4   xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.26
WP
11.19
SFC
11.19
USAT
11.12
PW
11.20
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(11.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(11.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.21)
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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