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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 7 November 2006

Stephen King's Lisey's Story (Scribner) unsurprisingly debuts at #1 on four of the five print lists compiled here. Also, Tamora Pierce's new YA novel Beka Cooper: Terrier (Random House) debuts at #2 on New York Times' children's chapter book list, and R.A. Salvatore's Road of the Patriarch (Wizards of the Coast) debuts at #13 at NY Times, #9 at Publishers Weekly, and #35 at USA Today. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 11.12	WP 11.05	SFC 11.05	USAT 10.29	PW 11.06 (ch 10.09)	Amz (11.07)	UK: Amz UK (11.07)	Australia: Dymocks (11.07)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.07)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars	10.17.06 / 4	9 +1
Bradbury, Farewell Summer	10.31.06 / 2	31 +2
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War	10.24.06 / 3	27 -4					x			x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony	09.12.06 / 9				59 -24		63 +10			53 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK)	08.01.06 / 15							xx	4 -2
Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders	10.10.06 / 5	x	xxx..	10 =	xxx..	xxx..
Hamilton, Strange Candy	10.03.06 / 6	24 -7	xxx		x	x	xxx..			xxx..
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction	10.10.06 / 5	28 -7			xx	xx
King, Lisey's Story	09.19.06 / 7	1 ++	1 ++		1 ++	1 ++	17 -8			19 -13
King, Lisey's Story (UK)	10.10.06 / 5							16 -1	10 ++
McCarthy, The Road	09.26.06 / 7	15 -3	xx	2 =	66 -18	11 -2	52 -33	77 ++		59 +
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet	10.17.06 / 4	6 -3
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 88	3 -1		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		74 +
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	09.20.05 / 34								9 =
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition	10.10.06 / 5				131 +11
Pierce, Beka Cooper: Terrier	11.07.06 / 1	2 ++			101 ++
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK)	05.09.06 / 24							14 =	xx	61 +
Salvatore, Road of the Patriarch: The Sellswords, Book III	10.24.06 / 3	13 ++			35 ++	9 ++	xx			x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 11.12	WP 11.05	SFC 11.05	USAT 10.29	PW 11.06 (ch 10.09)	Amz (11.07)	UK: Amz UK (11.07)	Australia: Dymocks (11.07)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.07)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Gaiman, Anansi Boys	10.10.06 / 5	x			86 -19
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb]	03.28.06 / 31	xxx..		10 -3	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..
Kostova, The Historian [tpb]	10.17.06 / 4	18 -1	5 +1		43 -11	8 +
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb]	10.10.06 / 5	29 -2			80 -21	xx
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 155	20 =	xxx..	xxx..	55 -10	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows	09.19.06 / 7	xxx..			121 -3	x				x
Morrell, Creepers	10.17.06 / 4	35 -3			108 -20
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb]	10.31.06 / 2						67 -45			43 -31
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	11.07.06 / 1							61 ++
Paolini, Eragon (UK)	01.11.05 / 28							81 +	5 +5
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 79	1 +1		xxx..	30 +52
Pratchett, Thud! (UK)	09.19.06 / 8							43 +9	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 16			xxx..	89 -18		xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 11.12	WP 11.05	SFC 11.05	USAT 10.29	PW 11.06 (ch 10.09)	Amz (11.07)	UK: Amz UK (11.07)	Australia: Dymocks (11.07)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.07)
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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