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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 21 August 2007

Of three significant debuts this week, the leader by a hair is Sherrilyn Kenyon's Devil May Cry (St. Martin's), 11th volume in her popular "Dark Hunters" series. It debuts on 4 of the 5 print lists compiled here, ranking #2 on 3 of them: New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. William Gibson's Spook Country (Putnam) debuts on all 5 print lists compiled here, though as high as #2 only on the San Francisco list. And Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Sandworms of Dune (Tor) also debuts on all 5 lists, peaking only as high as #3 at Publishers Weekly.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows debuts on Publishers Weekly's children's list, but apparently is not to appear at all on any New York Times list. NYT has long had a separate list for Series Books on its Children's Books page, and no longer lists separate volumes from such series on its Chapter Books or Paperback Books lists. Harry Potter does lead this week's Series Books list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.26
WP
08.19
SFC
08.19
USAT
08.12
PW
08.20
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(08.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.21)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (UK) 07.17.07 / 4             93 +    
Bachman, Blaze 06.12.07 / 11 34 -4 xxx..   xxx xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Canavan, Voice of the Gods (UK) 07.10.07 / 7             65 -5    
Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union 05.01.07 / 17 33 +2 xxx.. 6 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..   xxx..
Fforde, First Among Sequels 07.31.07 / 4 32 -19 xx x xx x xxx      
Gibson, Spook Country 07.24.07 / 5 6 ++ 4 ++ 2 ++ 46 ++ 6 ++ 70 -31 83 -22   14 +19
Hamilton, The Dreaming Void (UK) 07.31.07 / 4             50 -1    
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune 07.24.07 / 5 4 ++ 5 ++ 9 ++ 35 ++ 3 ++ x     63 -42
Kenyon, Devil May Cry 08.07.07 / 3 2 ++ 2 ++   8 ++ 2 ++ x      
Marr, Wicked Lovely 07.03.07 / 8 4 +2                
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 2       1 ++ 2 ++ 3 -1     25 +33
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 2       31 ++ 4 ++ 11 -1      
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 2           73 -16      
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 112 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 7 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 123 xxx..     xxx.. 10 + xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Making Money 08.21.07 / 1           93 ++      
Pratchett, Making Money (UK) 05.15.07 / 11             20 +12    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   xxx..         86 -35      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (CANADA) 07.19.05 / 11                 43 -21
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 29     3 -1 2 -1 1 ++ 1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 35             5 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 29                 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (CANADA) 07.19.05 / 8                 61 +10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 103     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 79 -27      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 93             13 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 86                 17 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 61             28 -7    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (CANADA) 07.13.03 / 10                 41 -22
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   xxx..         98 -39      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (CANADA) 07.19.05 / 10                 42 -16
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone   xxx..         52 -18      
Scott, The Alchemyst 07.03.07 / 8 2 +1       8 ++        
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 16 5 +3       14 + xxx..      
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin 03.27.07 / 22 26 -5 x xxx x x xxx     78 -51
Turtledove, Settling Accounts: In at the Death 08.14.07 / 2 25 -13 x   x x        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.26
WP
08.19
SFC
08.19
USAT
08.12
PW
08.20
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(08.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.21)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Arthur, Embraced by Darkness 08.14.07 / 2 28 -9     57 -24          
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 74       144 -31   xxx..     xxx..
Brooks, Armageddon's Children 08.14.07 / 2       112 +15          
Erikson, The Reaper's Gale (UK) 04.24.07 / 15             xxx..   62 +
Gaiman, Stardust 08.14.07 / 2 23 +12     54 +25   x     49 +4
King, Lisey's Story 07.03.07 / 8 34 -4 xxx..   68 -16 xx       xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 194 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 103 -15 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 20 19 -6 x x 53 -10 6 +2 35 +2 xx   19 +4
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 2       10 ++ 3 ++ 17 +2      
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 125             98 +2    
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 77       106 +17   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 22 4 =     136 -21   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 108 8 +2   xxx.. xxx..          
Pullman, The Golden Compass 07.31.07 / 4       97 -22          
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy 11.17.02 / 8           68 -8      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)               40 -17    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 19 -11          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)               46 -13    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 165 xxx..   xxx.. 25 -9          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 57     xxx.. 9 -6 xxx.. 34 -4      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 26                 37 +26
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 124 xxx..   xxx.. 18 -8 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)               23 -4    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)               42 -12    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 186 xxx..   xxx.. 23 -12          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 13 -9   xxx..      
Smith, The Ruins 08.14.07 / 2 12 +6 x   37 -8 6 +3        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.26
WP
08.19
SFC
08.19
USAT
08.12
PW
08.20
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(08.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.21)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.21)
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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