Locus Online: Bestsellers on General Lists

MONITOR

Bestsellers 3 October
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

Bestsellers 26 September
Mark Z. Danielewski
S.M. Stirling

2006 Archive

2005 Archive

KEY

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.

LINKS

Links Portal

Bookseller Links

Locus Bestsellers, compiled from sales at specialty stores:
October

E-mail Locus Online

SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists

posted 10 October 2006

Neil Gaiman's new collection Fragile Things (William Morrow) debuts impressively this week on all 5 print lists compiled here, as high as #6 on the fiction hardcover lists of Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle. Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalypse literary novel The Road (Knopf) debuts even stronger, ranking #1 on the fiction hardcover list at San Francisco Chronicle, #2 at Publishers Weekly. Other debuts include a Star Wars novel by Drew Karpyshyn on 3 lists, the paperback of George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows on 3 lists, and the trade paperback of Gregory Maguire's Son of a Witch on 3 lists. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 10.15	WP 10.08	SFC 10.08	USAT 10.01	PW 10.09 (ch 10.09)	Amz (10.10)	UK: Amz UK (10.10)	Australia: Dymocks (10.10)	Canada: Amz.ca (10.10)
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 / 14	8 -4			xxx..	8 +
Brooks, Armageddon's Children	08.29.06 / 7	31 -10	xxx..		x	xx	xxx..			xxx..
Canavan, Last of the Wilds (UK)	08.01.06 / 10							97 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony	09.12.06 / 5				16 -13		35 +6			34 -26
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK)	08.01.06 / 11							78 -27	1 =
Feist, Into a Dark Realm (UK)	08.29.06 / 7							67 +26
Gaiman, Fragile Things	10.10.06 / 1	14 ++	6 ++	6 ++	117 ++	13 ++
Gemmell, Troy: Shield of Thunder (UK)	08.29.06 / 7							53 +34	xxx
Hamilton, Strange Candy	10.03.06 / 2						x			92 ++
Harris, Grave Surprise	10.10.06 / 1	23 ++
Herbert/Anderson, Hunters of Dune	08.08.06 / 10	29 -6	xxx..	xxx..	xx	xx	xxx..			xx
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction	10.10.06 / 1	11 ++			72 ++	9 ++
King, Lisey's Story	09.19.06 / 3						25 ++			63 -22
King, Lisey's Story (UK)	10.10.06 / 1							68 ++
McCarthy, The Road	09.26.06 / 3	4 ++	5 ++	1 ++	20 ++	2 ++	12 +4			48 +
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet (UK)	10.10.06 / 1							10 ++
Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman	09.12.06 / 5	xxx..		9 -6
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 84	2 +1		xxx..	x	4 +	xxx..	xxx..		x
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	09.20.05 / 30								8 =
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition	10.10.06 / 1				132 ++
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 108	xxx..			xxx..	2 +	xxx..			xxx..
Pratchett, Wintersmith	09.26.06 / 2	3 ++				14 ++	xx
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK)	05.09.06 / 20							9 -4
Skelton, Endymion Spring	09.12.06 / 5	6 -4				5 +
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 10.15	WP 10.08	SFC 10.08	USAT 10.01	PW 10.09 (ch 10.09)	Amz (10.10)	UK: Amz UK (10.10)	Australia: Dymocks (10.10)	Canada: Amz.ca (10.10)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers	07.18.06 / 9	9 +				7 +
Elrod, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding [tpb]	10.03.06 / 2						86 -52			x
Gaiman, Anansi Boys	10.10.06 / 1				73 ++
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb]	03.28.06 / 29	xxx..		10 -3	xxx..		xxx..	xxx
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb]	10.10.06 / 1	34 ++			50 ++	10 ++
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 151	x	xxx..	xxx..	77 +9	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows	09.19.06 / 3	17 ++			41 ++	8 ++				68 +
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 90							94 +
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday (UK) [tpb]	02.21.06 / 9							95 +
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 75	4 =		xxx..	105 -10
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment	05.09.06 / 15	10 +			xxx..	xxx..
Pratchett, Thud! (UK)	09.19.06 / 4							21 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 12			xxx..	47 -15		xxx..
Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines	09.12.06 / 5	xx			134 -70	x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 10.15	WP 10.08	SFC 10.08	USAT 10.01	PW 10.09 (ch 10.09)	Amz (10.10)	UK: Amz UK (10.10)	Australia: Dymocks (10.10)	Canada: Amz.ca (10.10)
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]

TOP