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George R.R. Martin

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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

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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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posted 6 December 2005

James Luceno's Star Wars tie, Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Del Rey), debuts on 4 print lists this week, among the top 10 fiction hardcovers at Washington Post and Publishers Weekly. George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows remains among the top 10 fiction hardcovers on 4 print lists, and still ranks on 3 other lists. A new artbook, The Art of Ray Harryhausen (Aurum Press), by Ray Harryhausen & Tony Dalton, with an introduction by Peter Jackson, ranks #56 today on the Amazon UK list. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.11	WP 12.04	SFC 12.04	USAT 11.27	PW 12.05 (ch 11.21)	Amz (12.06)	UK: Amz UK (12.06)	Australia: Dymocks (12.06)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.06)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Funke, Dragon Rider	08.16.04 / 68	8 -1			xxx..	xx	xxx..			xxx..
Funke, Inkspell	09.06.05 / 12	3 =			99 +1	xx	60 -5			x
Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes	10.11.05 / 9	16 +4	xxx..	xxx..	59 +73	15 +	100 -5			56 -25
Harryhausen/Dalton, The Art of Ray Harryhausen (UK)	12.06.05 / 1							56 ++
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 13							45 +		xxx..
Jordan, Knife of Dreams	08.16.05 / 17	14 -3	xx	xxx..	62 -12	10 -2	79 -4			70 -48
Jordan, Knife of Dreams (UK)	09.06.05 / 14							xx	10 =
Koontz, Forever Odd	11.29.05 / 2						91 -32
Kostova, The Historian	06.14.05 / 26	15 +6	xxx..	xxx..	xxx	xxx..	96 -3			x
Luceno, Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader	12.06.05 / 1	11 ++	8 ++		30 ++	7 ++
Maguire, Son of a Witch	09.20.05 / 12	13 -1	xxx..	4 =	72 -1	12 -1	62 +7			xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 36	9 -2	7 -2	3 -1	33 -20	8 -5	59 -7			36 -24
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 40	1 =		xxx..	22 +5	xx	36 +3	95 -11		50 +10
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	09.20.05 / 11								4 =
Pratchett, Thud! (UK)	05.24.05 / 27							18 -3	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 51			5 +	7 +10	xx	10 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 49							46 +8	5 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA)	12.20.04 / 49									13 +1
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.11	WP 12.04	SFC 12.04	USAT 11.27	PW 12.05 (ch 11.21)	Amz (12.06)	UK: Amz UK (12.06)	Australia: Dymocks (12.06)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.06)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Crichton, State of Fear	11.08.05 / 5	3 -2	3 -2		15 -9	3 -2				46 +20
Funke, Inkheart [tpb]	05.31.05 / 25	6 +4			xxx..	xx
King, The Colorado Kid	10.18.05 / 8	29 +1	xxx..		110 -22	11 -4
Koontz, Life Expectancy	11.08.05 / 5	6 -4	x		42 -22	8 -4
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 29	2 =			3 +1		1 +1			3 +4
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	06.14.05 / 25	1 =			4 -1
Lewis, The Magician's Nephew	11.29.05 / 2				29 +7
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 107	9 +1	6 =	10 +	20 -1	4 -1	31 +6			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 48							7 +1
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 31	3 =		xxx..	52 -4
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK)	10.04.05 / 10							98 -18
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	76 +53
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 149	xxx..		xxx..	32 +6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA)	08.09.04 / 19									71 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 75	xxx..		xxx..	26 +53	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 175	xxx..		xxx..	102 +38
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	58 +39		xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.11	WP 12.04	SFC 12.04	USAT 11.27	PW 12.05 (ch 11.21)	Amz (12.06)	UK: Amz UK (12.06)	Australia: Dymocks (12.06)	Canada: Amz.ca (12.06)
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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