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Elizabeth Kostova
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Elizabeth Kostova
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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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Locus Bestsellers, compiled from sales at specialty stores:
July
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 12 July 2005

John Twelve Hawks' The Traveler (Doubleday) debuts on 4 print lists this week (after 2 weeks on Amazon), as high as #9 at Washington Post.

Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian remains higher, in the top 5 places on all 5 print lists and 2 Amazon lists.

In paperback, Kim Harrison's Every Which Way But Dead (HarperTorch) debuts on 2 print lists, after dropping off Amazon lists.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, to be published this coming Saturday, still ranks #1 on all three Amazon lists.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.17
WP
07.10
SFC
07.10
USAT
07.03
PW
07.11
(ch 06.13)
Amz
(07.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.12)
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 / 42 8 -1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.06.05 / 18 10 -1       xxx..        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception 04.10.05 / 14       54 -14 xxx.. 51 +15     66 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (UK) 04.10.05 / 14             8 +1 1 =  
Cunningham, Specimen Days 06.05.05 / 6 x   6 -2 xx xxx xxx      
Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana 06.12.05 / 5 xx   10 =            
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 48 2 =     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Hobb, Shaman's Crossing (UK) 06.26.05 / 3             36 -23 4 ++  
Koontz, Velocity 06.05.05 / 6 12 -3 xx   89 -43 14 -2 xxx      
Kostova, The Historian 06.12.05 / 5 2 = 1 +1 2 = 5 -1 2 = 5 =     4 -1
Kostova, The Historian (UK) 07.03.05 / 2             48 -28    
Nix, Across the Wall 07.10.05 / 1                 78 ++
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 20           7 +2 xx   12 +19
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 04.24.05 / 12 1 =     xxx.. xxx..        
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (UK) 07.03.05 / 2             58 -31    
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 05.03.04 / 24             46 -4 xxx.. xxx..
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 05.22.05 / 8             55 -3    
Robb, Origin in Death 07.10.05 / 1           26 ++      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 30           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 29             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 30                 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 92 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 34 +51      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone   xxx..         83 +      
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk 04.03.05 / 15 5 =     xxx.. xxx..        
Simmons, Olympos 06.19.05 / 4 25 ++         97 -11     xx
Twelve Hawks, The Traveler 06.26.05 / 3 13 ++ 9 ++   63 ++ 10 ++ 82 -6     x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.17
WP
07.10
SFC
07.10
USAT
07.03
PW
07.11
(ch 06.13)
Amz
(07.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Banks, The Algebraist (UK) 07.03.05 / 2             41 +23    
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 37       105 -32   xxx     xxx..
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.29.05 / 7 8 +1     136 -28 xxx..        
Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead 06.19.05 / 4 22 ++       15 ++ x xx   xxx
Jordan, New Spring 06.12.05 / 5       146 -42          
Koontz, The Taking 05.08.05 / 10 x xxx..   75 -33 x        
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 8 4 +2     85 +15   41 +2      
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.12.05 / 4 7 +1     x          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 86 29 -3   xxx.. 45 -11 7 -1 x     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 5     xxx..     xxx.. 63 +25    
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 60 xx xxx.. xxx.. 94 -6 xxx.. 40 +28     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 28             9 +5    
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday (UK) 05.22.05 / 8             62 -15    
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 30       133 -19         xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 37       84 -15   xx     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.08.05 / 10 2 -1     60 -16          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 128 xxx..   xxx.. 73 -10          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 28             xxx.. 5 +1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 11                 55 -26
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 54 xxx..   xxx.. 49 -10 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 143 -6          
Wells, The War of the Worlds 07.10.05 / 1       115 ++          
Wells, The War of the Worlds [tpb] 06.19.05 / 3             39 -11    
Wrede, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb] 04.17.05 / 13 5 -1     113 -31       3 +1  
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 23 xxx..   6 -2 x          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.17
WP
07.10
SFC
07.10
USAT
07.03
PW
07.11
(ch 06.13)
Amz
(07.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.12)
Australia:
Dymocks
(07.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.12)
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]
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