Matthew Stover's novelization of the new Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, bursts upon the bestseller lists this week, debuting on all 5 print lists charted here, all in the top 10, as high as #2 on the hardcover fiction lists at New York Times and Publishers Weekly. A new Artemis Fowl novel by Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception, debuts on 3 Amazon lists checked today. J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ranks #1 on all 3 Amazon lists again this week. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.17	WP 04.10	SFC 04.10	USAT 04.03	PW 04.11 (ch 03.01)	Amz (04.12)	UK: Amz UK (04.12)	Australia: Dymocks (04.12)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.12)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers	09.13.04 / 31	7 +2			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Card, Shadow of the Giant	03.13.05 / 5	28 -9	xx	xxx	x	x
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide	02.06.05 / 7	6 =				xxx
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception	04.10.05 / 1						38 ++			29 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (UK)	04.10.05 / 1							45 ++
Crichton, State of Fear	12.13.04 / 18	25 -7	xxx..	xxx..	xxx	xxx	xx			xxx..
Feist, Exile's Return	04.10.05 / 1	22 ++
Funke, Dragon Rider	08.16.04 / 35	2 -1			xxx..	xxx	xxx..			xxx..
Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight	04.03.05 / 2						28 +47			33 ++
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go	04.10.05 / 1						42 ++
Luceno, Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil	02.06.05 / 10	29 -5			xxx..	xxx..
Luceno, The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	04.03.05 / 2				52 ++	11 ++	x
Morgan, Woken Furies (UK)	03.06.05 / 6							71 -10
Nix, Abhorsen (UK)	04.05.04 / 14							95 -26
Paolini, Eldest	02.27.05 / 7						20 +43			x
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 84	3 -1			x	xxx	xxx..			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 17						1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 16							1 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA)	12.20.04 / 17									1 =
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk	04.03.05 / 2	1 +2			x
Stover, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	03.20.05 / 4	2 ++	7 ++	9 ++	4 ++	2 ++	50 -28			23 +31
Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (UK)	03.20.05 / 4							38 -6
Weber/Ringo, We Few	04.10.05 / 1	21 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.17	WP 04.10	SFC 04.10	USAT 04.03	PW 04.11 (ch 03.01)	Amz (04.12)	UK: Amz UK (04.12)	Australia: Dymocks (04.12)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	04.10.05 / 1						48 ++
Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [tpb]	03.20.05 / 2				xxx		87 ++			xxx
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb]	06.28.04 / 19	9 -1
Funke, The Thief Lord	09.28.03 / 69	8 +1			xxx..	xxx..				xxx..
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli [tpb]	02.06.05 / 10			5 +1
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 73	xxx..		xxx..	126 -43	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Martin/Mangels, Star Trek: Titan: Taking Wing	04.10.05 / 1				131 ++
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK)	02.13.05 / 9							35 +9
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 47	23 -6	x	x	57 -24	7 +1	54 +11			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.02.05 / 15							15 +1
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday (AUSTRALIA) [tpb]	01.23.05 / 11								10 -1
Nix, Lirael (UK)	07.26.04 / 10							99 -46
Nix, Sabriel (UK)	06.08.03 / 14							94 -45
Rinzler, The Art of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb]	04.10.05 / 1	11 ++			111 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 41	xxx..		xxx..	122 -14	xxx..	xxx..
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb]	02.06.05 / 10	xxx..		3 =	145 -14
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.17	WP 04.10	SFC 04.10	USAT 04.03	PW 04.11 (ch 03.01)	Amz (04.12)	UK: Amz UK (04.12)	Australia: Dymocks (04.12)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.12)
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]

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

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, and BookScan, which combines hardcovers and paperbacks within lists for fiction, nonfiction, and children's. 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.