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The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

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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 23 May 2006

Several new titles pop up here and there: Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Side of the Moon (St. Martin's), on sale May 30th, shows up with pre-orders on Amazon's list today at #95. George Saunders' collection In Persuasion Nation (Riverhead) ranks #10 on San Francisco Chronicle's hardcover fiction list this week. And, while the paperback of the previous volume ranks high on several paperback lists, James Patterson's new YA novel Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever (Little, Brown), ranks #72 today on Amazon's list. Meanwhile, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife continues a long run in the top 5 on Amazon UK's list. And several genre books pop back onto Amazon Canada's list today, including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at #1. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.28	WP 05.21	SFC 05.21	USAT 05.14	PW 05.22 (ch 05.22)	Amz (05.23)	UK: Amz UK (05.23)	Australia: Dymocks (05.23)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.23)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Proven Guilty	05.02.06 / 3	25 -4			x		xxx
Harris, Definitely Dead	05.02.06 / 4	12 -4	x		84 -57	10 -3	97 -7			xx
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 33							40 +4		xxx..
Kenyon, Dark Side of the Moon	05.23.06 / 1						95 ++
Martin, A Feast for Crows	02.23.03 / 46	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			58 +
Mitchell, Black Swan Green	04.25.06 / 5			9 -2						xxx..
Mitchell, Black Swan Green (UK)	05.02.06 / 4							23 -9
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 64	2 +2		xxx..	xxx..	10 +	xxx..	xxx..		56 +
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 104	xxx..			xxx..	9 +	xxx..			xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever	05.23.06 / 1						72 ++
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK)	05.09.06 / 3							73 -23
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 75			xxx..	xxx	xxx..	58 -7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 71							38 +18	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA)	12.20.04 / 58									1 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA)	07.06.03 / 40									8 +
Saunders, In Persuasion Nation	05.23.06 / 1			10 ++
Westerfeld, Specials	05.23.06 / 1	5 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.28	WP 05.21	SFC 05.21	USAT 05.14	PW 05.22 (ch 05.22)	Amz (05.23)	UK: Amz UK (05.23)	Australia: Dymocks (05.23)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.23)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, Broken	04.25.06 / 5	x			96 -54	9 -2	xxx..			xx
Armstrong, Broken (UK)	04.25.06 / 5							66 -39
Cunningham, Specimen Days [tpb]	05.16.06 / 2			8 -2
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK)	02.21.06 / 12							xxx..		72 -16
Hamilton, Judas Unchained (UK)	05.16.06 / 2							54 -24
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb]	03.28.06 / 9	xxx		1 +1	127 -9		xxx..
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 53	6 -1			xx		xxx..			xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 131	27 +	xxx..	xxx..	42 +9	14 +	xxx..			xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK)	02.15.05 / 19							83 -16
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 98	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	47 +7			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 71							3 +1
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 55	9 =		xxx..	xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment	05.09.06 / 3	1 =			33 -11	3 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.28	WP 05.21	SFC 05.21	USAT 05.14	PW 05.22 (ch 05.22)	Amz (05.23)	UK: Amz UK (05.23)	Australia: Dymocks (05.23)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.23)
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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