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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 28 November 2006

Michael Crichton's Next (HarperCollins), which went on sale today, ranks high on two Amazon lists. Look for it on print lists in the next week or two. Dean Koontz's Brother Odd (Bantam), also on sale today, ranks #41 on Amazon today. Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (Penguin) went on sale a week ago but hasn't yet cracked any of the print lists. It's riding at #34 on Amazon today. Australian bookseller Dymocks has not responded to a query about its categorized bestseller lists. (Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.03	WP 11.26	SFC 11.26	USAT 11.19	PW 11.27 (ch 10.09)	Amz (11.28)	UK: Amz UK (11.28)	Australia: Dymocks (11.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.28)
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 / 20	8 +2			xxx..	xxx..
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars	10.17.06 / 6	6 =
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony	09.12.06 / 12				63 +9		53 +6			69 +6
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK)	08.01.06 / 18							99 -19	[ 4 ]
Crichton, Next	11.14.06 / 3						4 +19			14 ++
King, Lisey's Story	09.19.06 / 10	7 -2	9 -3	7 +2	16 -2	7 -2	22 =			37 -25
King, Lisey's Story (UK)	10.10.06 / 8							46 +6	[ 10 ]
Koontz, Brother Odd	11.28.06 / 1						41 ++
McCarthy, The Road	09.26.06 / 10	23 -2	xxx..	3 +2	x	xx	50 -2	xx		xxx
McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet	10.17.06 / 6	7 +
Paolini, Eldest	03.01.05 / 91	1 =		10 -3	xxx..	xxx..	33 +33	xxx..		xxx
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition	10.10.06 / 8				72 +11
Paolini, Eragon	09.07.03 / 109	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..	66 +			xxx..
Pierce, Beka Cooper: Terrier	11.07.06 / 4	10 -6			xxx				[ 8 ]
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK)	05.09.06 / 27							21 -1		x
Pynchon, Against the Day	11.28.06 / 1						34 ++
Salvatore, Road of the Patriarch: The Sellswords, Book III	10.24.06 / 6	25 -5			x	xx	xxx..			xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.03	WP 11.26	SFC 11.26	USAT 11.19	PW 11.27 (ch 10.09)	Amz (11.28)	UK: Amz UK (11.28)	Australia: Dymocks (11.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.28)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers	07.18.06 / 11	8 +				xxx..
Cunningham, Specimen Days [tpb]	05.16.06 / 10			9 +
Funke, Inkheart [tpb]	05.31.05 / 41	9 =			xxx..	xxx..
Kostova, The Historian [tpb]	10.17.06 / 7	28 +2	xxx		93 -9	xx
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb]	10.10.06 / 8	xxx			94 +1	xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 158	26 -1	xxx..	xxx..	83 -3	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb]	10.31.06 / 5	20 -6	xx		33 -4	4 -1	xx			x
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	11.07.06 / 4							61 +11
Paolini, Eragon	11.14.06 / 3				13 +3
Paolini, Eragon (UK)	01.11.05 / 31							67 +17	[ 5 ]
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 82	1 =		xxx..	xxx
Pratchett, Thud! (UK)	09.19.06 / 11							81 -13
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 19			xxx..	84 +13		xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 12.03	WP 11.26	SFC 11.26	USAT 11.19	PW 11.27 (ch 10.09)	Amz (11.28)	UK: Amz UK (11.28)	Australia: Dymocks (11.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.28)
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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