Laurell K. Hamilton's latest, A Stroke of Midnight (Ballantine), debuts at #5 or #6 on four print lists this week. A YA novel by bestselling thriller writer James Patterson, Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment (Little, Brown), debuts on two lists, ranking #1 on this week's New York Times children's chapter books list. Various editions of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (not all of the UK and Canadian editions charted here) rank this week, in anticipation of the film adaptation opening next Friday. J.K. Rowling's forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince continues to 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 05.01	WP 04.24	SFC 04.24	USAT 04.17	PW 04.25 (ch 04.18)	Amz (04.26)	UK: Amz UK (04.26)	Australia: Dymocks (04.26)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.26)
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 / 33	8 -3			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide	02.06.05 / 9	5 -2				x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception	04.10.05 / 3				14 +3	x	33 +6			x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (UK)	04.10.05 / 3							20 +9
Feist, Exile's Return	04.10.05 / 3	33 -2
Funke, Dragon Rider	08.16.04 / 37	3 -1			xxx..	x	xxx..			xxx..
Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight	04.03.05 / 4	6 ++	5 ++		6 ++	5 ++	x			61 +
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go	04.10.05 / 3	19 -1		4 +1	147 -32		45 -4			22 +7
Luceno, Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil	02.06.05 / 12	32 -4			xxx..	xxx..
Luceno, The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	04.03.05 / 4				43 -20	13 -6	xxx
Paolini, Eldest	02.27.05 / 9						34 +14			29 +
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 86	6 +2			xxx	x	xxx..			xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment	04.24.05 / 1	1 ++			22 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 19						1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 18							1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA)	12.20.04 / 19									1 =
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk	04.03.05 / 4	2 -1			xxx	x
Stover, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	03.20.05 / 6	3 =	4 -3	x	9 -7	3 -2	52 +4			x
Weber/Ringo, We Few	04.10.05 / 3	31 -6
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.01	WP 04.24	SFC 04.24	USAT 04.17	PW 04.25 (ch 04.18)	Amz (04.26)	UK: Amz UK (04.26)	Australia: Dymocks (04.26)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.26)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	04.10.05 / 3	25 +10			25 +51	5 ++	32 +18
Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [tpb]	03.20.05 / 4				45 +33	12 ++	63 +			xxx..
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb]	06.28.04 / 21	6 +3
DuPrau, The People of Sparks	04.24.05 / 1	7 ++
Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli [tpb]	02.06.05 / 12			6 -3
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah [tpb]	04.17.05 / 2	33 -7			78 -42
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 75	xxx..		xxx..	127 +19	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK)	02.13.05 / 11							8 +23
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 49	28 +2	xxx	xxx	63 =	11 =	49 +16			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.02.05 / 17							17 -10
Nix, Sabriel (UK)	06.08.03 / 16							64 -11
Rinzler, The Art of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb]	04.10.05 / 3	22 -18			x	x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 43	xxx..		xxx..	120 +4	xxx..	xxx..
Wrede, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb]	04.17.05 / 2				24 -6
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb]	02.06.05 / 12	xxx..		3 +2	xx
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.01	WP 04.24	SFC 04.24	USAT 04.17	PW 04.25 (ch 04.18)	Amz (04.26)	UK: Amz UK (04.26)	Australia: Dymocks (04.26)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.26)
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]

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.