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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.

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posted 14 March 2006

A paperback original Laurell K. Hamilton novel, Micah (Jove), debuts on the paperback fiction print lists this week, and places on all three Amazon lists, including those in Canada and the UK. Stephen King's Cell slips again this week, but still ranks among the top 5 fiction hardcover bestsellers at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Several books have scattered debuts: titles by Peter F. Hamilton and Mercedes Lackey rank this week on the NY Times fiction hardcover list, while paperbacks by Simon R. Green and Karen Traviss debut on USA Today's list. See chart below for specifics. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.19	WP 03.12	SFC 03.12	USAT 03.05	PW 03.13 (ch 02.13)	Amz (03.14)	UK: Amz UK (03.14)	Australia: Dymocks (03.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (03.14)
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 / 2	34 +1
Funke, Inkspell	09.06.05 / 26	6 =			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Hamilton, Judas Unchained	03.14.06 / 1	20 ++
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 24							27 -12		xxx..
King, Cell	12.13.05 / 14	4 -2	4 -2	x	14 -10	5 -2	47 -17			13 +
King, Cell (UK)	02.07.06 / 6							22 -20	x
Lackey, One Good Knight	03.14.06 / 1	27 ++
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (AUSTRALIA)	03.07.06 / 2								1 =
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 54	2 =		xxx..	90 -24	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Reeve, A Darkling Plain (UK)	03.07.06 / 2							47 -9
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 65			xxx..	120 -23	xxx..	26 +16
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 62							34 +24	5 =
Zahn, Star Wars: Outbound Flight	02.14.06 / 5	19 -7	xxx..		x	x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.19	WP 03.12	SFC 03.12	USAT 03.05	PW 03.13 (ch 02.13)	Amz (03.14)	UK: Amz UK (03.14)	Australia: Dymocks (03.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (03.14)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Canavan, Priestess of the White (UK)	02.07.06 / 6							50 -3
Crichton, State of Fear	11.08.05 / 19	x	xxx..		77 -29	x	xxx			xxx..
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb]	06.28.04 / 30	10 +				xxx..
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK)	02.21.06 / 4							36 -7
Funke, Inkheart [tpb]	05.31.05 / 38	7 +2			xxx..	xxx..
Green, Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth	03.14.06 / 1				114 ++
Hamilton, Micah	03.14.06 / 1	1 ++	1 ++		1 ++	1 ++	66 ++	84 ++		65 ++
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 43	2 =			68 -25		83 -1			xxx..
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	06.14.05 / 38	6 -1			xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 121	30 -13	xxx..	xxx..	40 -13	9 -2	98 -24			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 90	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	104 -27	xxx..	78 +22			xxx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 62							1 +3
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (UK) [tpb]	02.21.06 / 4							45 -29
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 45	3 +1		xxx..	127 -28
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 86	xxx..		xxx..	141 +	xxx..	xxx..
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero	03.14.06 / 1				60 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 03.19	WP 03.12	SFC 03.12	USAT 03.05	PW 03.13 (ch 02.13)	Amz (03.14)	UK: Amz UK (03.14)	Australia: Dymocks (03.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (03.14)
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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