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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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April
 
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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.

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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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