Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time (HarperCollins US; Doubleday UK) has slipped off the two US newspaper lists that ranked it for a week or two, but ranks #1 this week on both UK hardcover fiction lists in the chart below. New this week: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana Paxson's The Priestess of Avalon is a runner-up at #30 on the NYT fiction hardcover list. And supporting our suspicion that Amazon's lists are running several weeks behind everyone else's, its hardcover fiction list this week lists Stephen King's Dreamcatcher for the first time, at #7, and also debuts titles by Pratchett, Weis & Hickman, and Williams PW's children's lists have been updated for May, and include ranking Artemis Fowl at #5 on the hardcover list. As usual, PW doesn't list the individual Harry Potter titles on the hardcover list, but lumps them together as the #1 entry under the 'Series' subheading; however PW does list the two benefit Harry Potter paperbacks separately under 'Fiction', this month at #1 and #2.
This cell color indicates ineligible titles, e.g. YA titles excluded from fiction lists, or no paperback lists						This cell color indicates stale data; e.g., children's bestseller lists updated only monthly
Title	NYT 27 May	LAT 20 May	SFC 20 May	USAT 17 May	WP 20 May	WSJ 18 May	London Times 20 May	PW 21 May	BookSense 21 May	Amz (16 May)	Amz UK [20 May]
Items compiled/total on list	30	15	15	50	10	10	10	15	15 hc, 5 pb	25	10
Fiction hardcovers
Bradley/Paxson, The Priestess of Avalon	30 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl	7 -1 ch hc							5 ++ ch fic
Jacques, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman	xxx ch hc					xxx..		6 -2 ch fic	xxx
King, Dreamcatcher	5 -1	x	xx	18 -1	xx	6 =	6 -4	7 =	x	7 ++	6 -1
LaHaye/Jenkins, The Mark	27 -1	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	x
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern	25 -6		xxx..	xxx..		xx		xx	xxx..	13 -7
Pratchett, Thief of Time	xx		x				1 +			16 ++	1 +2
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass	xxx ch hc		xxx..	xxx..		xxx..		10 -2 ch fic	xxx.. ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban	1 = ch hc	xxx ch	x	x		14 -3	3 ch hc	1 = ch series	xx ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire	2 = ch hc	xxx ch	12 -2	x		15 -3	1 = ch hc	1 = ch series	xxx ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	6 +1 ch hc	xx ch	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..	4 ch hc	1 = ch series	xxx.. ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	5 = ch hc		xxx..			xxx..	2 ch hc	1 = ch series	xxx.. ch
Weber/Ringo, March Upcountry	x
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of a Lost Star	x					xxx		xxx		17 ++
Williams, Otherland: Sea of Silver Light	xx									18 -8
Fiction paperbacks
Jacques, The Legend of Luke	xxx.. ch pb							x ch fic
Keyes (Greg), SW New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory 1: Conquest	xx			xxx				xxx		x
Pullman, The Golden Compass								x ch fic
Pullman, The Subtle Knife								xx ch fic		xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts...	1 = ch pb	1 +2 ch	xxx..	xx				1 = ch fic	2 -1 ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets	5 -1 ch pb	4 -2 ch	xxx..	40 -12				1 = ch series	7 = ch
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone	3 = ch pb	3 +1 ch	15 =	32 -12				1 = ch series	5 +1 ch
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages	2 = ch pb	2 +4 ch	xxx..	xx				2 = ch fic	1 +1 ch
Sachar, Holes	8 -1 ch pb			xxx..				4 -1 ch fic	xx ch
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR		x ch								14 =
	NYT	LAT	SFC	USAT	WP	WSJ	London	PW	BookSense	Amz	Amz UK

The table compiles SFFH books placing 15^th or higher on general bestseller lists (30^th or higher on the combined USA Today list). The current rank of each book and the change since last week are shown, where:
   = same as last week
   + or - with number: difference since last week
   + back on list
   ++ new on list
   x no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, London Times, Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). 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. Some books are on separate general [nonfiction] lists (gen), children's lists (ch), trade paperback lists (tpb), or mass market paperback lists (mm), as indicated.