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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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posted 4 April 2006

Christopher Moore's new fantasy novel A Dirty Job (Morrow) debuts on 4 print lists this week, as high as #1 on San Francisco Chronicle's hardcover fiction list. Elsewhere, David Weber's In Fury Born (Baen) is a runner-up on New York Times' fiction hardcover list at #32; MaryJanice Davidson's Dead and Loving It (Berkley), a collection of four novellas involving her vampire queen Betsy Taylor, ranks #47 today on Amazon; and the paperback of Angie Sage's first Septimus Heap YA novel debuts on 2 print lists. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.09	WP 04.02	SFC 04.02	USAT 03.26	PW 04.03 (ch 03.13)	Amz (04.04)	UK: Amz UK (04.04)	Australia: Dymocks (04.04)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.04)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Feist, Flight of the Nighthawks	04.04.06 / 1									61 ++
Funke, Inkspell	09.06.05 / 29	9 +1			xxx..	xx	xxx..			xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 27							25 +1		xxx..
King, Cell	12.13.05 / 17	10 -3	10 -2	xxx..	37 -13	10 -3	86 -22			81 +
King, Cell (UK)	02.07.06 / 9							61 -18	xxx..
Maguire, Son of a Witch	09.20.05 / 26	35 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Moore, A Dirty Job	03.28.06 / 2	9 ++		1 ++	41 ++	9 ++	x
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (AUSTRALIA)	03.07.06 / 5								1 =
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 57	1 =		xxx..	104 -8	xx	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	09.20.05 / 24								10 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 68			xxx..	86 +1	xx	49 -9
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 65							43 -1	xx
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Two: Flyte	03.28.06 / 2	5 -1			120 +3
Weber, In Fury Born	04.04.06 / 1	32 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.09	WP 04.02	SFC 04.02	USAT 03.26	PW 04.03 (ch 03.13)	Amz (04.04)	UK: Amz UK (04.04)	Australia: Dymocks (04.04)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.04)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Card, Shadow of the Giant	03.21.06 / 3				101 -22	x
Crichton, State of Fear	11.08.05 / 22	xxx..	xxx..		117 +4	xxx..	xxx..			xx
Davidson, Dead and Loving It [tpb]	04.04.06 / 1						47 ++
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK)	02.21.06 / 6							75 +		65 ++
Hamilton, Micah	03.14.06 / 4	22 -5	xxx		39 -20	6 -5	xxx	x		85 -27
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb]	03.28.06 / 2	32 ++		1 +1	93 -3		91 -21
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 46	7 -4			125 +8		68 +			xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 124	20 +7	xxx..	xxx..	46 -2	13 -1	x			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 93	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	144 -36	xxx..	xxx			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 65							2 +2
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (UK) [tpb]	02.21.06 / 7							57 -13
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 48	6 =		xxx..	126 -7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 158	xxx..		xxx..	132 -29
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 89	xxx..		xxx..	98 -32	xxx..	xxx..
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk	04.04.06 / 1	5 ++			112 ++
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero	03.14.06 / 4				146 -28
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.09	WP 04.02	SFC 04.02	USAT 03.26	PW 04.03 (ch 03.13)	Amz (04.04)	UK: Amz UK (04.04)	Australia: Dymocks (04.04)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.04)
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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