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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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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 11 March 2008

Three big debuts this week, beginning with Kim Harrison's The Outlaw Demon Wails (Eos), sixth in her Rachel Morgan series, debuting on all five print lists this week, as high as #5 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly.

Second is a new Star Wars novel by Karen Traviss, Legacy of the Force: Revelation (Del Rey), ranking #1 on Publishers Weekly's mass market list, #8 on the combined USA Today list, #6 on the Washington Post fiction paperback list.

Third is the latest Lynsay Sands vampire novel, Vampire, Interrupted (Avon), debuting on three lists, just a couple weeks after the previous novel in the series, Vampires Are Forever, placed on lists for three weeks running.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.16
WP
03.09
SFC
03.09
USAT
03.02
PW
03.10
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(03.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.11)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Banks, Matter (UK) 01.08.08 / 10             25 +3  
Feist, Wrath of a Mad God (UK) 02.26.08 / 3             27 -9  
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails 02.19.08 / 4 5 ++ 6 ++ 7 ++ 17 ++ 5 ++ 109 -54   xx
King, Duma Key 01.01.08 / 11 9 -4 10 -4 xxx 47 -25 8 -3 54 -17   38 +6
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 5           10 +6   xxx
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 31       40 -11 xxx.. 30 +6   xxx
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 5           91 +5    
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 31       29 -4 xxx.. 31 +3   xxx
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 8           12 -2   31 +6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 58     xxx.. x xxx.. 41 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 63             80 +4  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 58               67 +50
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 37 5 =     x xxx.. 84 +3    
Westerfeld, Extras 10.16.07 / 19 9 -1     xxx..        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.16
WP
03.09
SFC
03.09
USAT
03.02
PW
03.10
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(03.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.11)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, No Humans Involved 03.11.08 / 1       127 ++        
Crichton, Next 11.27.07 / 16 33 -8 xxx..   x xxx..      
Kenyon, Dream Chaser 03.04.08 / 2 29 -21     135 -60 x      
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 201 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 128 +3 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 49 9 +3 xxx.. xxx.. 67 -10 xxx.. 44 +5 54 -14 35 -2
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 31       24 -7 xxx.. x   xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 24             46 -11 44 -1
Sands, Vampire, Interrupted 03.11.08 / 1 6 ++     28 ++ 5 ++      
Snyder, Fire Study [tpb] 03.11.08 / 1 34 ++              
Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Revelation 03.11.08 / 1   6 ++   8 ++ 1 ++      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.16
WP
03.09
SFC
03.09
USAT
03.02
PW
03.10
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(03.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.11)
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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