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Kelley Armstrong
David & Leigh Eddings
Terry Pratchett
Naomi Novik

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Charlaine Harris
Jim Butcher

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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.

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 17 May 2006

Charlaine Harris' Definitely Dead (Ace), latest in her "Southern Vampire" series, makes a splash this week, landing in the top 10 fiction hardcovers on lists at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Meanwhile, Jim Butcher's Proven Guilty (Roc), latest in his "Dresden Files" series, debuts respectably at #21 on the New York Times list, and #91 at USA Today, while the paperback reprint of his previous book in the series, Dead Beat, is at #143 on the same list. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.21	WP 05.14	SFC 05.14	USAT 05.07	PW 05.15 (ch 04.10)	Amz (05.17)	UK: Amz UK (05.17)	Australia: Dymocks (05.17)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.17)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Proven Guilty	05.02.06 / 2	21 ++			91 ++		xx
Harris, Definitely Dead	05.02.06 / 3	8 ++	7 ++		27 ++	7 ++	90 -33			x
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 32							44 -9		xxx..
Mitchell, Black Swan Green	04.25.06 / 4			7 -2						xxx
Mitchell, Black Swan Green (UK)	05.02.06 / 3							14 -2
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 63	4 -3		xxx..	xxx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK)	05.09.06 / 2							50 +17
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 74			xxx..	xx	xxx..	51 +29
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 70							56 -18	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.21	WP 05.14	SFC 05.14	USAT 05.07	PW 05.15 (ch 04.10)	Amz (05.17)	UK: Amz UK (05.17)	Australia: Dymocks (05.17)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.17)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, Broken	04.25.06 / 4	28 -7			42 -20	7 -4	xxx			x
Armstrong, Broken (UK)	04.25.06 / 4							27 +2
Butcher, Dead Beat	05.16.06 / 1				143 ++
Cunningham, Specimen Days [tpb]	05.16.06 / 1			6 ++
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK)	02.21.06 / 11							xxx..		56 -25
Hamilton, Judas Unchained (UK)	05.16.06 / 1							30 ++
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb]	03.28.06 / 8	xx		2 +1	118 -24		xxx..
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 52	5 =			x		xxx			xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 130	x	xxx..	xxx..	51 -7	x	xxx..			xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK)	02.15.05 / 18							67 +
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 97	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	54 +17			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 70							4 =
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 54	9 -3		xxx..	xxx
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment	05.09.06 / 2	1 =			22 +1
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk	04.04.06 / 7	10 -3			xxx
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.21	WP 05.14	SFC 05.14	USAT 05.07	PW 05.15 (ch 04.10)	Amz (05.17)	UK: Amz UK (05.17)	Australia: Dymocks (05.17)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.17)
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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