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Bestsellers 29 January
Carrie Vaughn
Weis & Hickman
Stephenie Meyer

Bestsellers 22 January
Stephen King
Barb & J.C. Hendee
Robin Hobb
Christopher Paolini

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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 5 February 2008

Stephen King's Duma Key (Scribner) debuts solidly and strongly on print lists this week, ranking #1 at New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly, and #4 at San Francisco Chronicle. It's also still in the top 10 of titles today on Amazon and Amazon Canada. Meanwhile, the paperback reprint of King's "Richard Bachman" novel Blaze (Pocket) debuts on three print lists, as high as #13 at New York Times. The one other debut this week is J.G. Ballard's just-published autobiography, Miracles of Life (Fourth Estate), ranking #61 today on Amazon UK.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.10	WP 02.03	SFC 02.03	USAT 01.27	PW 02.04 (ch 01.14)	Amz (02.05)	UK: Amz UK (02.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.05)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Ballard, Miracles of Life (UK)	02.05.08 / 1							61 ++
Banks, Matter (UK)	01.08.08 / 5							10 +1
Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road	10.30.07 / 14	xxx..		10 +	xxx..		xxx..
Goodkind, Confessor	10.30.07 / 15	22 -3	xxx..	xxx..	xxx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xx
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two	01.08.08 / 5	25 -5			xxx	xxx
King, Duma Key	01.01.08 / 6	1 ++	1 ++	4 ++	1 ++	1 ++	7 -2		5 +8
King, Duma Key (UK)	01.22.08 / 3							43 -19
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 26				28 +1	x	44 -9		xxx..
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 26				24 +2	x	43 -6		xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr	01.22.08 / 3						69 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 53			xxx..	96 +3	x	24 +4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK)	12.26.06 / 58							31 +6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA)	02.06.07 / 53								34 +14
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 32	3 =			87 -19	xxx..	42 -31
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.10	WP 02.03	SFC 02.03	USAT 01.27	PW 02.04 (ch 01.14)	Amz (02.05)	UK: Amz UK (02.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.05)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bachman, Blaze	02.05.08 / 1	13 ++			55 ++	14 ++
Briggs, Iron Kissed	01.08.08 / 5	9 -1			97 -32	12 -4	xxx
Crichton, Next	11.27.07 / 11	7 +5	xxx		69 -6	7 +6
Maguire, Wicked	10.23.07 / 16	xxx..			132 -31	xxx..
Matheson, I Am Legend	11.13.07 / 13	5 +	xxx		29 -5	5 +1	xxx..
Matheson, I Am Legend [tpb]	11.06.07 / 13	17 -2			xxx..	xxx	xxx..	75 -26	xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 44	9 -1	xxx..	xxx..	39 +4	x	45 -21	40 -11	65 +1
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 26				17 +5	x	99 +		xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb]	03.27.07 / 45	9 -1			xxx..		xxx..		xxx..
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [tpb]	12.25.07 / 7				126 -38
Pullman, The Golden Compass	07.31.07 / 28			xxx..	108 -46				xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK)	08.02.04 / 19							30 -12	20 +14
Pullman, The Subtle Knife [tpb]	12.11.07 / 9				129 -46
Rinzler, The Art of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [tpb]	04.12.05 / 5	9 +			xxx..	xxx..
Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest [tpb]	10.30.07 / 14	31 +1			xxx	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Weber, Off Armageddon Reef	01.22.08 / 3	29 -3
Westerfeld, Pretties [tpb]	12.19.06 / 9	8 +
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 02.10	WP 02.03	SFC 02.03	USAT 01.27	PW 02.04 (ch 01.14)	Amz (02.05)	UK: Amz UK (02.05)	Canada: Amz.ca (02.05)
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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