Locus Online: Bestsellers on General Lists: 8 April 2008

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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 8 April 2008

Three significant debuts this week: beginning with Kelley Armstrong's Personal Demon (Bantam Spectra), eighth book in her "Women of the Otherworld" supernatural fantasy series, debuting on four print lists this week, as high as #10 at Washington Post. The US edition of Raymond E. Feist's Wrath of a Mad God (Eos), third volume in his Darkwar Saga, debuts this week on three print lists, highest at #12 at Publishers Weekly. Cassandra Clare's young-adult City of Ashes (Simon & Schuster/McElderry), second book in the "Mortal Instruments" series following City of Bones, debuts this week at #3 on the NY Times children's list, and at #96 on USA Today's combined list.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.13	WP 04.06	SFC 04.06	USAT 03.30	PW 04.07 (ch 01.14)	Amz (04.08)	UK: Amz UK (04.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.08)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (UK)	07.17.07 / 8							56 +5
Armstrong, Personal Demon	04.08.08 / 1	18 ++	10 ++		70 ++	14 ++
Banks, Matter	03.04.08 / 3			10 +
Banks, Matter (UK)	01.08.08 / 14							66 -28
Butcher, Small Favor	03.18.08 / 4						38 -24		xxx
Butcher, Small Favour (UK)	04.01.08 / 2							67 -35
Clare, City of Ashes	04.08.08 / 1	3 ++			96 ++
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	10.23.07 / 12	xxx..		xxx			11 +
Feist, Wrath of a Mad God	04.08.08 / 1	16 ++			68 ++	12 ++			43 ++
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails	02.19.08 / 8	25 -9	xxx..	xxx..	x	xx	xxx..		xxx..
King, Duma Key	01.01.08 / 15	26 -11	xxx..	xxx..	124 -26	x	x		xx
Meyer, Breaking Dawn	02.12.08 / 9						15 -3		x
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 35				21 -1	xxx..	28 +1		xxx..
Meyer, The Host	02.12.08 / 6						86 +
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 35				17 -2	xxx..	33 -6		xxx..
Moon, Victory Conditions	03.04.08 / 3	xxx..			xxx..			99 -48
Paolini, Brisingr	01.22.08 / 12						20 -4	40 +25	37 -16
Patterson, The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel	03.18.08 / 4				3 -1		x
Patterson, Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports	05.29.07 / 12				146 -28		xxx..
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North	04.08.08 / 1								18 ++
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK)	03.25.08 / 3							2 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 62			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	45 -1
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 41	7 -1			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.13	WP 04.06	SFC 04.06	USAT 03.30	PW 04.07 (ch 01.14)	Amz (04.08)	UK: Amz UK (04.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Abercrombie, The Last Argument of Kings (UK)	03.18.08 / 4							37 -19
Chance, Embrace the Night	04.08.08 / 1				119 ++			76 ++
Clare, City of Bones [tpb]	04.08.08 / 1	7 ++
Harris, All Together Dead	04.08.08 / 1	22 ++			142 ++
Hill, Heart-Shaped Box	04.08.08 / 1	31 ++
Maguire, Wicked [tpb]	06.15.03 / 204	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	117 +	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Matheson, I Am Legend	11.13.07 / 19	xxx..	xxx..		84 -3	xxx..	xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 53	12 +1	xxx..	xx	71 +13	xxx..	66 -11	79 -5	20 -3
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 35				10 -1	xxx..	42 +11	xx	xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK)	08.02.04 / 28							75 -15	xxx
Smith, The Ruins	08.14.07 / 7	23 +	xxx..		122 +	xxx..
Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Revelation	03.11.08 / 5	29 -20	xxx..		x	x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.13	WP 04.06	SFC 04.06	USAT 03.30	PW 04.07 (ch 01.14)	Amz (04.08)	UK: Amz UK (04.08)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.08)
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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