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Bestsellers 25 September
Terry Pratchett
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Madeleine L'Engle

Bestsellers 18 September
Terry Brooks
J.K. Rowling
S.M. Stirling

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 2 October 2007

Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel Making Money (HarperCollins/Harper) debuts impressively on US print lists this week, as high as #3 on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction hardcover list, #4 on those lists at New York Times and Washington Post, #5 on Publishers Weekly's. It's slipped out of the top 100 on Amazon.com, but still ranks #3 today on Amazon UK. Debuts this week include L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Natural Ordermage (Tor), ranking #30 on New York Times' fiction hardcover list, and Charles Stross' Halting State (Ace), due in stores today, on Amazon.com's list today at #78.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 10.07	WP 09.30	SFC 09.30	USAT 09.23	PW 10.01 (ch 08.13)	Amz (10.02)	UK: Amz UK (10.02)	Australia: Dymocks (06.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (10.02)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	10x4	100
Hardcovers
Beddor, Seeing Redd	09.04.07 / 5	7 -2
Brooks, The Elves of Cintra	08.28.07 / 6	17 -7	xx		145 -28	14 -6	xxx..	xx		xxx
Gibson, Spook Country	07.24.07 / 11	34 -1	xxx..	x	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		62 +
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune	07.24.07 / 11	28 -6	xxx..	xxx..	xxx	xxx	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 8				14 -5	xxx..	26 -3			xx
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 8				26 -5	xxx..	33 -1			xx
Modesitt, Natural Ordermage	10.02.07 / 1	30 ++
Pratchett, Making Money	08.21.07 / 4	4 ++	4 ++	3 ++	34 ++	5 ++	112 -36
Pratchett, Making Money (UK)	05.15.07 / 17							3 -1		39 +21
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 35			x	9 -3	xxx..	17 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK)	12.26.06 / 41							26 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA)	02.06.07 / 35									12 -2
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 21	9 -3				xxx..	xxx..
Stross, Halting State	10.02.07 / 1						78 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 10.07	WP 09.30	SFC 09.30	USAT 09.23	PW 10.01 (ch 08.13)	Amz (10.02)	UK: Amz UK (10.02)	Australia: Dymocks (06.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (10.02)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars	10.02.07 / 1	10 ++
Brooks, Armageddon's Children	08.14.07 / 7	26 +			xxx
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Inferno	09.11.07 / 4	12 -1	xxx		90 -36	7 -2
Gaiman, Stardust	08.14.07 / 8	7 -1			xxx	xxx..	xxx..			xxx..
Gemmell/Gemmell, Troy: The Fall of Kings (UK)	08.28.07 / 6							93 -33
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 26	8 =	xxx..	8 +	69 +4	xx	60 -10	xxx..		33 +9
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 8				20 -5	xxx..	66 -6			xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb]	03.27.07 / 28	5 -2			xxx..		xxx..			xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb]	05.10.05 / 111	8 =		xxx..	xxx..
Pratchett, Wintersmith	09.25.07 / 2							30 -19
Pullman, The Golden Compass	07.31.07 / 10				147 -20
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	107 -18
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb]	08.11.02 / 171	xxx..		xxx..	109 -29
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb]	07.25.06 / 63			xxx..	39 -14	xxx..	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb]	07.05.04 / 130	xxx..		xxx..	55 -9	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb]	06.17.01 / 192	xxx..		xxx..	99 -22
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]		xxx..		xxx..	62 -13		xxx..
Westerfeld, Specials [tpb]	10.02.07 / 1	6 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 10.07	WP 09.30	SFC 09.30	USAT 09.23	PW 10.01 (ch 08.13)	Amz (10.02)	UK: Amz UK (10.02)	Australia: Dymocks (06.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (10.02)
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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