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Bestsellers 17 April
Jim Butcher
J.R.R. Tolkien
Cormac McCarthy
Kurt Vonnegut
J.K. Rowling

Bestsellers 10 April
Cormac McCarthy
Keri Arthur
Laurell K. Hamilton
James Patterson
J.K. Rowling

2007 Archive

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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 24 April 2007

With the death of Kurt Vonnegut, sales of his books have resurged. Last week the trade paperback edition of Slaughterhouse-Five ranked on two Amazon lists; this week, the same title climbs onto print lists from New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly, with the mass-market edition of same also ranking this week on the PW list. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to be published in July, remains #1 on the three Amazon lists this week.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.29	WP 04.22	SFC 04.22	USAT 04.15	PW 04.23 (ch 04.09)	Amz (04.24)	UK: Amz UK (04.24)	Australia: Dymocks (03.27)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.24)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Butcher, White Night	03.27.07 / 5	7 -2	10 -6		45 -28	7 -3	x			86 +
Clare, The Mortal Instruments, Book One: City of Bones	04.24.07 / 1	7 ++
Feist, Into a Dark Realm	04.10.07 / 3	28 -4
Harrison, For a Few Demons More	03.20.07 / 6	22 -10	xx		x	12 =	xxx			xxx..
Hill, Heart-Shaped Box	02.20.07 / 10	26 -5		xxx	xx	xx	xxx
Reynolds, The Prefect (UK)	04.17.07 / 2							73 -37
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 12						1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK)	12.26.06 / 18							1 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA)	02.06.07 / 12									1 =
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Three: Physik	03.27.07 / 4				90 -49	xx	xxx..
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin	03.27.07 / 5						3 -1			3 -1
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin (UK)	03.27.07 / 5							3 -2
Westerfeld, Specials	05.23.06 / 9	8 -1				xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.29	WP 04.22	SFC 04.22	USAT 04.15	PW 04.23 (ch 04.09)	Amz (04.24)	UK: Amz UK (04.24)	Australia: Dymocks (03.27)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.24)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Arthur, Dangerous Games	04.10.07 / 3	x			87 -37	x
Erikson, The Reaper's Gale (UK)	04.24.07 / 1							87 ++
Hamilton, Danse Macabre	04.10.07 / 3	xx			143 -37
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 3	2 -1	1 =	1 +2	5 -2	1 =	6 -1			6 =
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 109							27 +5	[ 8 ]
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 5: Lady Friday (UK)	02.20.07 / 10							84 -7
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb]	10.31.06 / 18	x	xxx..		78 +61	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK)	11.07.06 / 21							48 +	[ 10 ]
Paolini, Eldest [tpb]	03.27.07 / 5	1 =			14 -4		x			43 ++
Paolini, Eragon	11.14.06 / 24				89 -50
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 103	7 +1		xxx..	xxx..
Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia	02.13.07 / 11	x			69 -40		xxx..			xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever	04.10.07 / 3	2 +2			43 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 40			xxx..	85 -6	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 107	xxx..		xxx..	124 -6	xxx..	xxx..
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five	04.24.07 / 1					12 ++
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five [tpb]	04.17.07 / 2	16 ++			34 ++	12 ++	41 -29			20 +3
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.29	WP 04.22	SFC 04.22	USAT 04.15	PW 04.23 (ch 04.09)	Amz (04.24)	UK: Amz UK (04.24)	Australia: Dymocks (03.27)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.24)
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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