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Laurell K. Hamilton
Mercedes Lackey
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Elizabeth Kostova
Geraldine McCaughrean
George R.R. Martin
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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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posted 31 October 2006

Three titles debut at the end of New York Times' fiction hardcover list this week: Ray Bradbury's new novel Farewell Summer (Morrow) at #33; Susanna Clarke's collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (Bloomsbury) at #34; and Richard Powers' National Book Award nominee The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) at #35.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.05
WP
10.29
SFC
10.29
USAT
10.22
PW
10.30
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.31)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.31)
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 / 17 9 -3     xxx.. xxx        
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars 10.17.06 / 3 10 -5                
Bradbury, Farewell Summer 10.31.06 / 1 33 ++                
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 10.24.06 / 2 23 -3         80 +12     96 ++
Clarke/Vess, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories 10.31.06 / 1 34 ++                
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony 09.12.06 / 8       35 -13   73 -11     x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 14             x 2 =  
Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders 10.10.06 / 4 24 -3 xxx 10 -2 xxx xxx        
Hamilton, Strange Candy 10.03.06 / 5 17 -6 xx   130 -48 14 -7 xxx..     xxx
Hearn, Harsh Cry of the Heron (UK) 10.17.06 / 3               4 +1  
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction 10.10.06 / 4 21 -3     x x        
King, Lisey's Story 09.19.06 / 6           9 -4     6 -3
King, Lisey's Story (UK) 10.10.06 / 4             15 -6    
McCarthy, The Road 09.26.06 / 6 12 -5 x 2 -1 48 -17 9 +1 19 +6     x
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet 10.17.06 / 3 3 +1                
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet (UK) 10.10.06 / 4             69 -1    
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 87 2 =   xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 33               9 -2  
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition 10.10.06 / 4       142 -7          
Powers, The Echo Maker 10.31.06 / 1 35 ++                
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 23             14 -3 x x
Salvatore, Road of the Patriarch: The Sellswords, Book III 10.24.06 / 2           x     53 -5
Skelton, Endymion Spring 09.12.06 / 8 7 +1       xxx        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.05
WP
10.29
SFC
10.29
USAT
10.22
PW
10.30
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.31)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.31)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Gaiman, Anansi Boys 10.10.06 / 4 35 +     67 -2          
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 30 xxx..   7 + xxx..   xxx.. xxx..    
Kostova, The Historian [tpb] 10.17.06 / 3 17 +3 6 +2   32 +4 x        
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 4 27 +6     59 -3 x        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 154 20 -3 xxx.. xxx.. 45 +4 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 6 xxx     118 -21 14 +       99 +
Morrell, Creepers 10.17.06 / 3 32 ++     88 -2          
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb] 10.31.06 / 1           22 ++     12 ++
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 27             xxx.. 10 +  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 78 2 =   xxx.. 82 +17          
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 09.19.06 / 7             52 -21 x  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 15     xxx.. 71 -8   xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.05
WP
10.29
SFC
10.29
USAT
10.22
PW
10.30
(ch 10.09)
Amz
(10.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.31)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.31)
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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