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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 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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