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Clive Barker
Michael Chabon
Dean Koontz
Richard Matheson

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Joe Hill

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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 20 November 2007

The new novel by Kristen Britain, The High King's Tomb (DAW) debuts at #29 on the New York Time' fiction hardcover list this week.

Both the trade paper and mass market paperback editions of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (Tor) are on lists this week, in anticipation of the Will Smith film opening in December.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.25
WP
11.18
SFC
11.18
USAT
11.11
PW
11.19
(ch 11.12)
Amz
(11.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Barker, Mister B. Gone 11.13.07 / 2 24 -4     x        
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Secret of the Rundoon 11.13.07 / 2       136 -27        
Britain, The High King's Tomb 11.20.07 / 1 29 ++              
Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road 10.30.07 / 4 22 -4   1 = x   xx    
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 4 xxx   10 +          
Goodkind, Confessor 10.30.07 / 4           38 -21 77 -39 29 -22
Hamilton, A Lick of Frost 10.23.07 / 5 15 -6 xx   69 -35 x xx   xx
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 15       42 -3 x 50 -5   xxx..
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 15       50 -1 x 55 -9   xxx..
Pratchett, Making Money (UK) 05.15.07 / 24             25 -8 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 42     xxx.. 53 -7 x 20 +3    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 48             85 -38  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 42               27 +13
Salvatore, The Orc King: Transitions, Book One 10.09.07 / 7 25 -2     xx xxx     xxx..
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin (UK) 03.27.07 / 22             xxx.. 80 ++
Westerfeld, Extras 10.16.07 / 6 2 =     116 -5        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.25
WP
11.18
SFC
11.18
USAT
11.11
PW
11.19
(ch 11.12)
Amz
(11.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars 10.02.07 / 7 5 +2              
King, The Mist 10.16.07 / 6 16 +13     76 +21 xxx      
Koontz, Brother Odd 11.13.07 / 2 6 -2 9 =   16 -4 7 -2      
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 5 17 =     64 -10 xx      
Matheson, I Am Legend 11.13.07 / 2 7 +7     17 +28 5 +7      
Matheson, I Am Legend [tpb] 11.06.07 / 2 22 ++     xx        
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 33 8 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 106 +16 xxx.. 54 -1 xx 34 -3
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 15       36 = x 96 -8   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 34 4 +1     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Pullman, The Golden Compass 07.31.07 / 17       59 +26        
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 8             29 +7 xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy 11.17.02 / 11       74 ++   35 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 70     xxx.. 107 -4 xxx.. xxx..    
Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest [tpb] 10.30.07 / 4 4 -1     44 -21 7 ++ xx   68 -5
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: True Colors 11.13.07 / 2 23 ++     114 -47        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.25
WP
11.18
SFC
11.18
USAT
11.11
PW
11.19
(ch 11.12)
Amz
(11.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.20)
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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