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J.R.R. Tolkien
Cormac McCarthy
Michael Chabon
Kelley Armstrong
Charlaine Harris
J.K. Rowling

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Kurt Vonnegut
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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May
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 8 May 2007

Two YA novels debut this week: Holly Black's Ironside (McElderry) and Erin Hunter's The Sight (HarperCollins), ranking #5 and #1 respectively on this week's New York Times children's chapter book list, with Hunter also ranking a respectable #13 on USA Today's combined list.

Also belatedly added to this chart: Brian Selznick's associational YA graphic novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic), currently ranking #3 on the same NYT in its 13th week there.

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
05.13
WP
05.06
SFC
05.06
USAT
04.29
PW
05.03
(ch 04.09)
Amz
(05.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.08)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Armstrong, No Humans Involved 05.01.07 / 2           x 44 ++   x
Black, Ironside 05.08.07 / 1 5 ++                
Butcher, White Night 03.27.07 / 7 16 -5 xx   131 -39 11 -1 xxx     xx
Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union 05.01.07 / 2           8 -1     79 ++
Flint/Weber, 1634: The Baltic War 05.08.07 / 1 32 ++                
Harris, All Together Dead 05.01.07 / 2           31 -12 x   x
Harrison, For a Few Demons More 03.20.07 / 8 34 -6 xxx..   xxx xx xxx..     xxx..
Hunter, Warriors: Power of Three: The Sight 05.08.07 / 1 1 ++     13 ++          
Murakami, After Dark 05.08.07 / 1           88 ++      
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife 10.12.03 / 26 xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   9 + xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 37               4 +  
Reynolds, The Prefect (UK) 04.17.07 / 3             34 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 14           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 20             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 14                 1 =
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 1 3                
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin 03.27.07 / 7 2 -1 2 -1 1 +1 3 -1 2 -1 7 -3     4 =
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin (UK) 03.27.07 / 7             4 -1 65 ++  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.13
WP
05.06
SFC
05.06
USAT
04.29
PW
05.03
(ch 04.09)
Amz
(05.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Erikson, The Reaper's Gale (UK) 04.24.07 / 3             13 +4    
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 180 x xxx.. xxx.. 106 -22 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 5 1 = 1 = 1 = 5 -2 1 = 13 -2     7 +2
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 111             58 = xxx..  
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 5: Lady Friday (UK) 02.20.07 / 12             x 54 +  
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb] 10.31.06 / 20 xxx xxx..   117 -24 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 7 1 =     34 -13   xxx     xx
Paolini, Eragon 11.14.06 / 26       128 -19          
Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia 02.13.07 / 13 xxx     109 -32   xxx..     xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever 04.10.07 / 5 6 -2     x          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 42     xxx.. 75 -17 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 109 xxx..   xxx.. 122 -11 xxx.. xxx..      
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five [tpb] 04.17.07 / 4 35 -18     51 -12 x 85 -26     xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.13
WP
05.06
SFC
05.06
USAT
04.29
PW
05.03
(ch 04.09)
Amz
(05.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.08)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.08)
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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