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Bestsellers 8 May
Erin Hunter
Holly Black
J.K. Rowling

Bestsellers 1 May
J.R.R. Tolkien
Cormac McCarthy
Michael Chabon
Kelley Armstrong
Charlaine Harris
J.K. Rowling

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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 15 May 2007

Michael Chabon's literary alternate history novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union (HarperCollins) debuts strongly this week on print lists, #1 in San Francisco and #2 in New York and Washington DC and at Publishers Weekly. The latest volumes in two popular paranormal romance series, Kelley Armstrong's No Humans Involved (Bantam Spectra) and Charlaine Harris' All Together Dead (Ace), also debut on print lists this week, Harris at #6 and Armstrong at #14 on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Cormac McCarthy's The Road has a lock at #1 on four of the trade paperback lists charted here, in the edition's 6th week on charts. 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 05.20	WP 05.13	SFC 05.13	USAT 05.06	PW 05.14 (ch 04.09)	Amz (05.15)	UK: Amz UK (05.15)	Australia: Dymocks (05.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.15)
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 / 3	14 ++			69 ++	14 ++	xx	69 -25		55 +
Black, Ironside	05.08.07 / 2	7 -2
Butcher, White Night	03.27.07 / 8	24 -8	xxx		x	x	xxx..			xxx
Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union	05.01.07 / 3	2 ++	2 ++	1 ++	13 ++	2 ++	8 =			33 +46
Flint/Weber, 1634: The Baltic War	05.08.07 / 2	19 +13
Harris, All Together Dead	05.01.07 / 3	6 ++			20 ++	6 ++	84 -53	xx		xx
Hunter, Warriors: Power of Three: The Sight	05.08.07 / 2	1 =			55 -42
Morgan, Black Man (UK)	10.17.06 / 2							51 +
Pratchett, Making Money (UK)	05.15.07 / 1							60 ++
Reynolds, The Prefect (UK)	04.17.07 / 4							79 -45
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 15						1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK)	12.26.06 / 21							1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA)	02.06.07 / 15									1 =
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 2	3 =
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin	03.27.07 / 8	3 -1	3 -1	2 -1	15 -12	3 -1	9 -2			4 =
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin (UK)	03.27.07 / 8							6 -2	x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.20	WP 05.13	SFC 05.13	USAT 05.06	PW 05.14 (ch 04.09)	Amz (05.15)	UK: Amz UK (05.15)	Australia: Dymocks (05.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Allston, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 1: Betrayal	05.15.07 / 1				120 ++
Erikson, The Reaper's Gale (UK)	04.24.07 / 4							50 -37
King, Everything's Eventual	01.12.02 / 11	33 +			61 +	xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 6	1 =	1 =	1 =	7 -2	1 =	16 -3			8 -1
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 112							29 +29	xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb]	03.27.07 / 8	1 =			41 -7		xxx..			xxx
Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia	02.13.07 / 14	xxx..			147 -38		xxx..			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 43			xxx..	89 -14	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 110	xxx..		xxx..	127 -5	xxx..	xxx..
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five [tpb]	04.17.07 / 5	29 +6			77 -26	xx	95 -10			64 +
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.20	WP 05.13	SFC 05.13	USAT 05.06	PW 05.14 (ch 04.09)	Amz (05.15)	UK: Amz UK (05.15)	Australia: Dymocks (05.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.15)
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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