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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 18 September 2007

Terry Brooks' The Elves of Cintra maintains #5 rankings on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows still ranks #4 on the San Francisco Chronicle and USA Today lists. Meanwhile, the New York Times, which has contrived to avoid listing the latest Harry Potter by name altogether, consigning it to a 'series book' entry on its children's books page, has just this week split its paperback fiction rankings into separate lists for trade paperbacks and mass market paperbacks. Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife squeaks onto the former list in last, 35th, place, while Terry Brooks' Armageddon's Children appears on the latter list at #32. A new novel by S.M. Stirling, The Sunrise Lands (Roc), debuts this week on New York Times' fiction hardcover list at #25.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 09.23	WP 09.16	SFC 09.16	USAT 09.09	PW 09.17 (ch 08.13)	Amz (09.18)	UK: Amz UK (09.18)	Australia: Dymocks (06.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (09.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Beddor, Seeing Redd	09.04.07 / 3	4 =
Brooks, The Elves of Cintra	08.28.07 / 4	5 =	8 -3		61 -36	5 =	xx	100 +		x
Gibson, Spook Country	07.24.07 / 9	22 -2	xxx	5 -3	xx	xx	xxx	xxx..		82 -40
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune	07.24.07 / 9	17 -3	xx	xxx	x	x	xxx..	xx		xxx..
Kenyon, Devil May Cry	08.07.07 / 7	26 -10	xxx..		x	xx	xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 6				7 -1	xxx..	19 -9			58 +
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 6				22 +2	xxx..	24 +1			85 -12
Meyer, Twilight	08.14.07 / 4						xxx			70 ++
Pratchett, Making Money	08.21.07 / 2						39 +
Pratchett, Making Money (UK)	05.15.07 / 15							3 +12		24 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 33			4 =	4 -2	xxx..	11 -5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK)	12.26.06 / 39							18 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA)	02.06.07 / 33									9 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK)	12.27.04 / 97							53 +7
Scott, The Alchemyst	07.03.07 / 12	7 =				xxx..
Stirling, The Sunrise Lands	09.18.07 / 1	25 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 09.23	WP 09.16	SFC 09.16	USAT 09.09	PW 09.17 (ch 08.13)	Amz (09.18)	UK: Amz UK (09.18)	Australia: Dymocks (06.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (09.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 78				104 +36		xxx..			xxx..
Brooks, Armageddon's Children	08.14.07 / 6	32 ++			x
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Inferno	09.11.07 / 2	8 -1	x		28 -13	4 +2
Gaiman, Stardust	08.14.07 / 6	6 -1			x	xxx	xxx..			xx
Gemmell/Gemmell, Troy: The Fall of Kings (UK)	08.28.07 / 4							35 -3
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 24	9 +8	xxx..	5 +	83 -7	13 =	57 -18	xxx..		22 =
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 6				16 +2	xxx..	59 -10			xxx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 127	35 +	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 128							94 +
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 81				127 +1		xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb]	03.27.07 / 26	5 +3			xxx		xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 109	10 +		xxx..	xxx..
Pullman, The Golden Compass	07.31.07 / 8				118 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	66 -10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 169	xxx..		xxx..	70 -7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 61			xxx..	27 +5	xxx..	91 -27
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 128	xxx..		xxx..	43 -6	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 190	xxx..		xxx..	72 +3
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	44 +1		xxx..
Smith, The Ruins	08.14.07 / 6	xx	xxx		135 -35	xx
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 09.23	WP 09.16	SFC 09.16	USAT 09.09	PW 09.17 (ch 08.13)	Amz (09.18)	UK: Amz UK (09.18)	Australia: Dymocks (06.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (09.18)
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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