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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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Locus Bestsellers, compiled from sales at specialty stores:
June
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 13 June 2006

Two prominent debuts this week: Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Side of the Moon (St. Martin's), latest in the "Dark-Hunter" series and the first hardcover in that series; and Aaron Allston's Star Wars novel Legacy of the Force, Book 1: Betrayal (Ballantine Del Rey). Both debut on several print lists this week, as high as #5 (Kenyon) on Publishers Weekly's fiction hardcover list.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.18
WP
06.11
SFC
06.11
USAT
06.04
PW
06.12
(ch 06.12)
Amz
(06.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.13)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.13)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Allston, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 1: Betrayal 05.30.06 / 2 10 ++     41 ++ 7 ++ xx      
Davidson, Undead and Unpopular 06.06.06 / 2           98 -39      
Davidson, Undead and Unreturnable 10.18.05 / 4 xxx..     94 +   xxx..      
Donohue, The Stolen Child 06.06.06 / 2 32 -6         17 +1      
Goodkind, Chainfire (UK) 01.25.05 / 7             90 + xxx..  
Harris, Definitely Dead 05.02.06 / 7 34 -12 xxx..   xx xx xxx     xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 36             50 +27   xxx..
Kenyon, Dark Side of the Moon 05.23.06 / 4 7 ++ 6 ++   19 ++ 5 ++ x      
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 67 2 =   xxx.. x 10 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 105 xxx..     xxx.. 9 + xxx..     xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever 05.23.06 / 4 1 =     30 -18 4 ++ x      
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever (UK) 06.06.06 / 2               10 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 78     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 91 -15      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 60                 62 -4
Westerfeld, Specials 05.23.06 / 4 9 =       15 ++        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.18
WP
06.11
SFC
06.11
USAT
06.04
PW
06.12
(ch 06.12)
Amz
(06.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.13)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.13)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 48       134 -1   xxx..     xxx..
Cunningham, Specimen Days [tpb] 05.16.06 / 5     7 +1            
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 31 xxx..       13 +        
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK) 02.21.06 / 14             xxx..   67 +10
Flewelling, The Oracle's Queen 06.13.06 / 1                 50 ++
Hamilton, Judas Unchained (UK) 05.16.06 / 5             81 -12    
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 12 xxx..   6 -1 x   xxx..      
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah 06.06.06 / 2       106 -26          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 134 27 +5 xxx.. xxx.. 43 -1 13 +2 xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 101 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. 52 +14     82 -62
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 74             6 -2    
Novik, Black Powder War 06.13.06 / 1       90 ++          
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 50       123 +8   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 58 7 =   xxx.. 139 -13          
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 05.09.06 / 6 2 -1     61 -37 2 +        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.18
WP
06.11
SFC
06.11
USAT
06.04
PW
06.12
(ch 06.12)
Amz
(06.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.13)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.13)
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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