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= 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
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 2 May 2006

Obvious genre titles are increasingly scarce on lists the past several weeks. On print lists, nothing debuts this week, and several titles dropped off the longest of them, USA Today's, since last week. Amazon has just four SF or fantasy titles this week, though two of them are new: Charlaine Harris' Definitely Dead (Ace), latest in her Southern Vampire series, at #19, and Jim Butcher's Proven Guilty (Roc), at #89.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.07
WP
04.30
SFC
04.30
USAT
04.23
PW
05.01
(ch 04.10)
Amz
(05.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.02)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.02)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Proven Guilty 05.02.06 / 1           89 ++      
Feist, Flight of the Nighthawks 04.04.06 / 3 34 -8     x   xxx..     xxx..
Harris, Definitely Dead 05.02.06 / 1           19 ++     17 ++
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 30             32 +9   xxx..
King, Cell 12.13.05 / 21 29 -7 xxx.. xxx.. x xx xx     xx
Mitchell, Black Swan Green 04.25.06 / 2     4 -1           x
Mitchell, Black Swan Green (UK) 05.02.06 / 1             16 ++    
Moore, A Dirty Job 03.28.06 / 6 12 +4   2 -1 124 -12 13 +2 xxx..     77 ++
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (AUSTRALIA) 03.07.06 / 8               7 -4  
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 61 1 +2   xxx.. x xx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 72     xxx.. 131 -24 xx 56 -10      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 68             68 -29 xxx..  
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Two: Flyte 03.28.06 / 6 7 +2     xxx.. xx     xxx..  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.07
WP
04.30
SFC
04.30
USAT
04.23
PW
05.01
(ch 04.10)
Amz
(05.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.02)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.02)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, Broken 04.25.06 / 2           x     19 ++
Armstrong, Broken (UK) 04.25.06 / 2             50 +21    
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK) 02.21.06 / 9             xxx..   21 -8
Hamilton, Micah 03.14.06 / 8 xxx.. xxx..   132 -13 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 6 28 +6   2 +1 83 +18   xx      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 50 2 =     72 -47   x     xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 128 25 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 45 +14 xx xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 95 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 95 -8     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 68             5 -2    
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 52 6 =   xxx.. x          
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk 04.04.06 / 5 9 -1     x          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.07
WP
04.30
SFC
04.30
USAT
04.23
PW
05.01
(ch 04.10)
Amz
(05.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.02)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.02)
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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