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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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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 21 March 2006

Laurell K. Hamilton's Micah remains high on a couple lists, but has quickly dropped off a couple others, including Amazon's Top 100 as of today.

The mass market paperback of Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Giant (Tor) ranks #73 on USA Today's list this week. It's the one debut on this week's chart.

Correction: the UK edition of Trudi Canavan's Priestess of the White (Orbit) is a hardcover, not a paperback as indicated the past several weeks. It's shown below in the proper sorting, though its ranking has dropped to #109, just below the posted cut-off of Amazon UK's list.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.26
WP
03.19
SFC
03.19
USAT
03.12
PW
03.20
(ch 03.13)
Amz
(03.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.21)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Canavan, Priestess of the White (UK) 02.07.06 / 7             109 -59    
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 27 7 -1     xxx.. 11 + xxx..     xxx..
Hamilton, Judas Unchained 03.14.06 / 2 30 -10                
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 25             26 +1   xxx..
King, Cell 12.13.05 / 15 5 -1 7 -3 xx 20 -6 5 = 66 -19     x
King, Cell (UK) 02.07.06 / 7             24 -2 xx  
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (AUSTRALIA) 03.07.06 / 3               1 =  
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 55 2 =   xxx.. 97 -7 3 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 22               7 +  
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 102 xxx..     xxx.. 5 + xxx..     xxx..
Reeve, A Darkling Plain (UK) 03.07.06 / 3             71 -24    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 66     xxx.. 93 +27 10 + 34 -8      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 63             43 -9 8 -3  
Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate 12.27.05 / 10       xxx.. 6 + xxx..     xxx..
Zahn, Star Wars: Outbound Flight 02.14.06 / 6 27 -8 xxx..   xx xx        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.26
WP
03.19
SFC
03.19
USAT
03.12
PW
03.20
(ch 03.13)
Amz
(03.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.21)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Card, Shadow of the Giant 03.21.06 / 1       73 ++          
Crichton, State of Fear 11.08.05 / 20 xx xxx..   101 -24 xx xxx..     93 +
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK) 02.21.06 / 5             57 -21    
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 39 8 -1     xxx.. 13 +        
Hamilton, Micah 03.14.06 / 2 6 -5 x   9 -8 1 = x 75 +9   70 -5
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 44 2 =     106 -38   x     xxx..
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.14.05 / 39 7 -1     xxx..          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 122 18 +12 xxx.. xxx.. 40 = 11 -2 95 +3     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 91 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 109 -5 xxx.. x     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 63             4 -3    
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (UK) [tpb] 02.21.06 / 5             20 +25    
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 46 4 -1   xxx.. 129 -2          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 156 xxx..   xxx.. 86 +          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 87 xxx..   xxx.. 65 +76 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 143 +   xxx..      
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero 03.14.06 / 2       80 -20          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.26
WP
03.19
SFC
03.19
USAT
03.12
PW
03.20
(ch 03.13)
Amz
(03.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(03.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.21)
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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