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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 1 August 2006

Terry Goodkind's Phantom (Tor) debuts impressively on print lists this week, #1 on the fiction hardcover lists at New York Times and Publishers Weekly, #2 at Washington Post, #4 at USA Today. Slightly associational, Scott Smith's The Ruins (Knopf), a literary thriller with a horror/fantasy notion at its core, and the author's first novel since A Simple Plan (1993) (he also wrote the 1998 film's screenplay), debuts strongly on all 5 print lists compiled here, and on Amazon. Amazon UK ranks the UK edition of Trudi Canavan's Last of the Wilds (Orbit) at #15, and the latest by Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (Puffin), at #2. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 08.06	WP 07.30	SFC 07.30	USAT 07.23	PW 07.31 (ch 06.12)	Amz (08.01)	UK: Amz UK (08.01)	Australia: Dymocks (08.01)	Canada: Amz.ca (08.01)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Shadow Thieves	07.11.06 / 4	1 =			93 +4
Canavan, Last of the Wilds (UK)	08.01.06 / 1							15 ++
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK)	08.01.06 / 1							2 ++
Egan, The Keep	08.01.06 / 1						43 ++
Fforde, The Fourth Bear (UK)	07.11.06 / 4							54 +9
Funke, Inkspell	09.06.05 / 36	7 +1			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Goodkind, Phantom	06.27.06 / 6	1 ++	2 ++		4 ++	1 ++	28 -11			5 +4
Goodkind, Phantom (UK)	07.04.06 / 5							x	1 ++
Hamilton, Danse Macabre	06.20.06 / 7	13 -6	x	xx	73 -34	13 -9	xx			xx
Hobb, Forest Mage (UK)	06.27.06 / 6							73 +	x
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK)	02.22.05 / 43							48 -17		xxx..
McCaffrey/McCaffrey, Dragon's Fire	06.27.06 / 3	28 -12			x		xxx..
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 74	2 =		xxx..	125 +3	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever	05.23.06 / 11	3 =			x	xxx..	xxx..
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK)	05.09.06 / 10							50 +39
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	12.20.04 / 85			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	78 -11
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 79							xxx..	1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA)	12.20.04 / 64									17 -9
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Two: Flyte	03.28.06 / 8	10 +			xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Smith, The Ruins	08.01.06 / 1	5 ++	4 ++	3 ++	9 ++	3 ++	10 ++
Weis/Hickman, Dragons of the Dwarven Depths	07.25.06 / 2	34 -3
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 08.06	WP 07.30	SFC 07.30	USAT 07.23	PW 07.31 (ch 06.12)	Amz (08.01)	UK: Amz UK (08.01)	Australia: Dymocks (08.01)	Canada: Amz.ca (08.01)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Anderson, Of Fire and Night (UK) [tpb]	08.01.06 / 1							26 ++
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers	07.18.06 / 3	10 -1
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 55				83 +7		xxx..			xxx..
Harrison, A Fistful of Charms	06.20.06 / 7	x	xxx		80 -31	x	xxx	38 +14		xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb]	03.28.06 / 19	xxx..		5 -3	xxx..		xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 141	26 +7	xxx..	xxx..	26 +6	14 -1	xxx			xxx..
McCaffrey, Dragonsblood	07.11.06 / 4				134 -22
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 108	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	113 +3	xxx..	69 -9			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 81							5 =
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 57				105 -13		xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 65	3 =		xxx..	109 +6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 2						30 -10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) [tpb]	06.27.06 / 6							66 -13
Twelve Hawks, The Traveler [tpb]	08.01.06 / 1	22 ++			36 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 08.06	WP 07.30	SFC 07.30	USAT 07.23	PW 07.31 (ch 06.12)	Amz (08.01)	UK: Amz UK (08.01)	Australia: Dymocks (08.01)	Canada: Amz.ca (08.01)
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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