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

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+/- change since last week

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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 30 May 2006

Nothing noteworthy to highlight this week; the closest is a new Star Wars novel by Aaron Allston, ranking #66 today on Amazon's list, while Stephen King's Cell, after several weeks off, creeps back on to the New York Times list at #33. Today's Amazon Canada list had no genre titles at all; it's the most volatile of the Amazon lists -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, #1 a week ago, ranked #388 when checked today. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.04	WP 05.28	SFC 05.28	USAT 05.21	PW 05.29 (ch 05.22)	Amz (05.30)	UK: Amz UK (05.30)	Australia: Dymocks (05.30)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.30)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Harris, Definitely Dead	05.02.06 / 5	12 =	xx		113 -29	13 -3	x			xxx
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 34							55 -15		xxx..
Kenyon, Dark Side of the Moon	05.23.06 / 2						21 +74
King, Cell	12.13.05 / 23	33 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Mitchell, Black Swan Green (UK)	05.02.06 / 5							24 -1
Moore, A Dirty Job	03.28.06 / 8	xxx		6 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 65	1 +1		xxx..	147 +	x	xxx..	xxx..		x
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever	05.23.06 / 2						49 +23
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK)	05.09.06 / 4							72 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 76			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	62 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 72							74 -36	xxx..
Westerfeld, Specials	05.23.06 / 2	9 -4
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.04	WP 05.28	SFC 05.28	USAT 05.21	PW 05.29 (ch 05.22)	Amz (05.30)	UK: Amz UK (05.30)	Australia: Dymocks (05.30)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.30)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Allston, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 1: Betrayal	05.30.06 / 1						66 ++
Armstrong, Broken	04.25.06 / 6	xx			99 -3	8 +1	xxx..			xxx
Cunningham, Specimen Days [tpb]	05.16.06 / 3			5 +3
Hamilton, Judas Unchained (UK)	05.16.06 / 3							45 +9
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb]	03.28.06 / 10	xxx..		3 -2	103 +24		xxx..
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set	12.21.03 / 54	10 -4			xxx		xxx..			xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 132	27 =	xxx..	xxx..	41 +1	15 -1	xxx..			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 99	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	50 -3			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 72							2 +1
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 48				126 +		xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 56	7 +2		xxx..	141 +
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment	05.09.06 / 4	1 =			34 -1	x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 06.04	WP 05.28	SFC 05.28	USAT 05.21	PW 05.29 (ch 05.22)	Amz (05.30)	UK: Amz UK (05.30)	Australia: Dymocks (05.30)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.30)
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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