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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 7 February 2006

Stephen King's Cell (Scribner) debuts strongly on all 5 print lists compiled here, ranking #1 on 4 of them (in San Francisco Julian Barnes is #1), as anticipated. The UK edition ranks low on that country's Amazon chart; the edition there goes on sale February 27. A new mass-market paperback edition of King's The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (Pocket) debuts this week on 2 lists. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.12	WP 02.05	SFC 02.05	USAT 01.29	PW 02.06 (ch 01.16)	Amz (02.07)	UK: Amz UK (02.07)	Australia: Dymocks (02.07)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.07)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Funke, Inkspell	09.06.05 / 21	4 =			xxx..	xxx	xxx..			xxx..
King, Cell	12.13.05 / 9	1 ++	1 ++	3 ++	1 ++	1 ++	4 -1			2 +5
King, Cell (UK)	02.07.06 / 1							72 ++
Koontz, Forever Odd	11.29.05 / 11	30 -9	xxx..		xxx	xxx..	xxx..
Maguire, Son of a Witch	09.20.05 / 21	26 -2	xxx..	x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 45	31 +4	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			x
Oppel, Skybreaker	01.31.06 / 2	5 +5
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 49	2 =		xxx	59 -10	xxx	79 +14	xxx..		xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 60			xxx..	82 -4	xxx	20 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 57							55 +	xx
Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate	12.27.05 / 7				119 -28	xxx	77 +11			x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.12	WP 02.05	SFC 02.05	USAT 01.29	PW 02.06 (ch 01.16)	Amz (02.07)	UK: Amz UK (02.07)	Australia: Dymocks (02.07)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.07)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Canavan, Priestess of the White (UK)	02.07.06 / 1							26 ++
Crichton, State of Fear	11.08.05 / 14	19 +2	xxx..		45 -6	9 -1				xxx..
Denning, Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book III: The Swarm War	01.10.06 / 5	xx			141 -49	xx
Funke, Inkheart [tpb]	05.31.05 / 34	7 -2			xxx..	xxx
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla	02.07.06 / 1	25 ++			28 ++
Koontz, Life Expectancy	11.08.05 / 14	x	xxx..		148 -15	xxx..
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 38	1 =			17 -10		26 -4			xxx..
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	06.14.05 / 34	2 =			24 -15
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 116	13 =	7 -1	xxx..	16 +1	6 =	46 +17			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 85	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	110 +	xxx..	95 -16			46 -26
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 57							5 +2
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 40	3 =		xxx..	90 -9
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 84	xxx..		xxx..	134 -35	xxx..	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.12	WP 02.05	SFC 02.05	USAT 01.29	PW 02.06 (ch 01.16)	Amz (02.07)	UK: Amz UK (02.07)	Australia: Dymocks (02.07)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.07)
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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