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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 March 2006

Stephen King's Cell slips just slightly on lists this week.

Several just-published or forthcoming items debut on Amazon lists today: Garth Nix's The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday is #1 on the children's list of the erratically-updated Australian Dymock's site; Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is #38 on the Amazon UK list; and the 4th volume in Manda Scott's Boudica series, Dreaming the Serpent Spear (Knopf Canada) -- whose previous title Dreaming the Hound was just published in the US -- is #21 on Amazon Canada's list today.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.12
WP
03.05
SFC
03.05
USAT
02.26
PW
03.06
(ch 02.13)
Amz
(03.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.07)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead 03.07.06 / 1 35 ++                
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 25 6 -1     xxx.. xxx xxx..     xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 23             15 +26   xxx..
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 08.16.05 / 29 30 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx
King, Cell 12.13.05 / 13 2 = 2 = 5 = 4 -2 3 -1 30 -15     x
King, Cell (UK) 02.07.06 / 5             2 = 8 -4  
Maguire, Son of a Witch 09.20.05 / 25 22 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (AUSTRALIA) 03.07.06 / 1               1 ++  
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 53 2 +1   xxx.. 66 +8 xxx xxx xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 21               4 =  
Reeve, A Darkling Plain (UK) 03.07.06 / 1             38 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 64     xxx.. 97 -5 xxx 42 -17      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 61             58 +10 5 -2  
Zahn, Star Wars: Outbound Flight 02.14.06 / 4 12 -1 xxx   101 -17 12 -3        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.12
WP
03.05
SFC
03.05
USAT
02.26
PW
03.06
(ch 02.13)
Amz
(03.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.07)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Canavan, Priestess of the White (UK) 02.07.06 / 5             47 =    
Crichton, State of Fear 11.08.05 / 18 22 +5 xxx..   48 +15 13 +2 xx     xxx..
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK) 02.21.06 / 3             29 -17    
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 37 9 =     xxx.. xxx        
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla 02.07.06 / 5 34 -5     85 -27          
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 42 2 -1     43 -13   82 -26     xxx..
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.14.05 / 37 5 -1     xxx          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 120 17 +4 xxx.. xxx.. 27 -4 7 +1 74 -26     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 89 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 77 +13 xxx.. 100 -17     xx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 61             4 =    
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: Mister Monday (AUSTRALIA) 10.19.03 / 5               10 +  
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (UK) [tpb] 02.21.06 / 3             16 +40    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 24             xxx.. 8 +  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 44 4 -1   xxx.. 99 +4          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 37             xxx.. 6 +  
Scott, Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear (CANADA) [tpb] 03.07.06 / 1                 21 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.12
WP
03.05
SFC
03.05
USAT
02.26
PW
03.06
(ch 02.13)
Amz
(03.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.07)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.07)
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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