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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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March
 
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posted 4 March 2008

Elizabeth Moon's Victory Conditions (Del Rey) debuts this week at #19 on New York Times fiction hardcover list, further down on the USA Today list.

San Francisco Chronicle readers pulled Iain Banks' Matter (Orbit) into a respectable 10th place on the paper's fiction hardcover list.

Belatedly compiled here is Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dream Chaser (St. Martin's), third in her Dream Hunter series, already on lists for a couple weeks, ranking this week at #8 on the mass market fiction lists of both NY Times and Publishers Weekly.

Steven Gould's Jumper (Tor) breaks on to the New York Times mass market fiction list this week at #19.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.09
WP
03.02
SFC
03.02
USAT
02.24
PW
03.03
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(03.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.04)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Ballard, Miracles of Life (UK) 02.05.08 / 5             93 -42  
Banks, Matter 03.04.08 / 1     10 ++          
Banks, Matter (UK) 01.08.08 / 9             28 -5  
Feist, Wrath of a Mad God (UK) 02.26.08 / 2             18 -2  
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails 02.19.08 / 3           55 -25   x
King, Duma Key 01.01.08 / 10 5 -2 6 -3 xx 22 -10 5 -2 37 -5   44 -19
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 4           16 -5   xx
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 30       29 +6 xxx.. 36 -3   xx
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 4           96 -16    
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 30       25 +4 xxx.. 34 -5   xx
Moon, Victory Conditions 03.04.08 / 1 19 ++     124 ++        
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 7           10 +16   37 +37
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 57     xxx.. 141 -9 xxx.. 39 +9    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 62             84 -50  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 57               117 -58
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 36 5 -1     147 + xxx.. 87 -1    
Westerfeld, Extras 10.16.07 / 18 8 -1     xxx..        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.09
WP
03.02
SFC
03.02
USAT
02.24
PW
03.03
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(03.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.04)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bachman, Blaze 02.05.08 / 5 26 -6     x xxx..      
Butcher, White Night 02.19.08 / 3 14 -3     113 -26 x      
Crichton, Next 11.27.07 / 15 25 +3 xxx..   122 -11 xxx..      
Gould, Jumper 02.26.08 / 2 19 ++     142 -8        
Kenyon, Dream Chaser 03.04.08 / 1 8 ++     75 ++ 8 ++      
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 200 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 131 -4 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Matheson, I Am Legend 11.13.07 / 17 31 -2 xxx..   103 -34 xxx.. xxx..    
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 48 12 = xxx.. xxx.. 57 -2 xxx.. 49 -6 40 +1 33 -25
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 30       17 +5 xxx.. 68 -28   xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 132             76 -22  
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 23             35 + 43 -7
Sands, Vampires Are Forever 02.12.08 / 4 27 -14     x xx      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.09
WP
03.02
SFC
03.02
USAT
02.24
PW
03.03
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(03.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.04)
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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