Locus Online: Bestsellers on General Lists: 27 May 2008

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

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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 27 May 2008

A new Star Wars novel by Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible (Del Rey), debuts strongly on print lists this week, as high as #4 on Publishers Weekly's fiction hardcover list. Stephenie Meyer's The Host debuts this week on the fifth of the five print lists compiled here, Washington Post's, though it's already dropped off San Francisco Chronicle's list. Salman Rushdie's new novel The Enchantress of Florence (Random House), in stores today, ranks this week on a couple Amazon lists.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.01	WP 05.25	SFC 05.25	USAT 05.18	PW 05.26	Amz (05.26)	UK: Amz UK (05.26)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.26)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible	05.13.08 / 3	5 ++	8 ++		14 ++	4 ++	x		xx
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	10.23.07 / 19	27 -3		5 -3			56 -10
Doctorow, Little Brother	05.20.08 / 2	9 =
Gingrich/Forstchen, Days of Infamy	05.13.08 / 3	17 +4			x	xx
Hamilton, Blood Noir	05.20.08 / 2						31 +26		32 ++
Harris, From Dead to Worse	05.06.08 / 4	13 -7	x		65 -41	10 -5	x
Koontz, Brother Odd	11.28.06 / 13	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	45 +7
Koontz, Odd Hours	05.06.08 / 4						22 +12		61 -17
Marr, Ink Exchange	05.13.08 / 3	6 -1
Meyer, Breaking Dawn	02.12.08 / 16						3 +2		28 -11
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 42				16 +10	xxx..	14 +2		xxx..
Meyer, The Host	02.12.08 / 13	1 =	2 ++	x	4 -1	1 =	12 -5	xx	8 +2
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 42				13 +6	xxx..	13 -2		xxx..
Meyer, Twilight	08.14.07 / 7						91 +1		xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr	01.22.08 / 19						23 +6	44 =	75 -21
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK)	03.25.08 / 10							20 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 69			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	45 +11
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK)	12.26.06 / 68							96 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA)	02.06.07 / 66								88 +
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence	05.27.08 / 1						66 ++		96 ++
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 48	7 -1			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..

Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.01	WP 05.25	SFC 05.25	USAT 05.18	PW 05.26	Amz (05.26)	UK: Amz UK (05.26)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.26)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Arthur, The Darkest Kiss	05.13.08 / 3	28 -13			87 -27	x
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb]	05.13.08 / 3	9 -3	7 =	4 -3	128 -4	x	97 ++		x
Hamilton, The Harlequin	05.13.08 / 3	20 -1			111 -21	xx
Lewis, Prince Caspian	05.13.08 / 3	6 +1
Marr, Wicked Lovely [tpb]	05.20.08 / 2	9 +1
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 60	20 -1	xxx..	xxx	140 +	xxx..	77 +	71 -7	22 +25
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 42				7 +3	xxx..	8 +2	xxx..	xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK)	08.02.04 / 35							77 -11	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.01	WP 05.25	SFC 05.25	USAT 05.18	PW 05.26	Amz (05.26)	UK: Amz UK (05.26)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.26)
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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