Locus Online: Bestsellers on General Lists: 15 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 15 April 2008

Jim Butcher's Small Favor (Roc) makes a very impressive debut on print lists this week, ranking #1 on Publishers Weekly's fiction hardcover list, #2 on the same lists at New York Times and Washington Post, and #3 on USA Today's combined list. Of associational interest is a new collection of essays by Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect (Putnam), debuting on all five print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #4 on New York Times' hardcover nonfiction list. Three paperbacks debut on various lists: Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind (DAW), Karen Chance's Embrace the Night (Roc) -- #6 on NYT's mass market paperback list -- and Ilona Andrews' Magic Burns (Ace).
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.20	WP 04.13	SFC 04.13	USAT 04.06	PW 04.14 (ch 01.14)	Amz (04.15)	UK: Amz UK (04.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.15)
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 / 9							84 -28
Armstrong, Personal Demon	04.08.08 / 2	24 -6	x		148 -78	x
Banks, Matter (UK)	01.08.08 / 15							85 -19
Butcher, Small Favor	03.18.08 / 5	2 ++	2 ++	7 ++	3 ++	1 ++	53 -15		xxx..
Clare, City of Ashes	04.08.08 / 2	4 -1			x
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	10.23.07 / 13	xxx..		xxx..			28 -17
Feist, Wrath of a Mad God	04.08.08 / 2	20 -4			135 -67	x			x
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails	02.19.08 / 9	35 -10	xxx..	xxx..	xx	xxx	xxx..		xxx..
King, Duma Key	01.01.08 / 16	30 -4	xxx..	xxx..	137 -13	xx	xx		xxx
Meyer, Breaking Dawn	02.12.08 / 10						14 +1		64 +
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 36				22 -1	xxx..	31 -3		xxx..
Meyer, The Host	02.12.08 / 7						62 +24
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 36				18 -1	xxx..	27 +6		xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr	01.22.08 / 13						17 +3	47 -7	x
Patterson, The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel	03.18.08 / 5				14 -11		xx
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK)	03.25.08 / 4							6 -4
Reynolds, House of Suns (UK)	04.15.08 / 1							43 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 63			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	54 -9
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Four: Queste	04.15.08 / 1						74 ++
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 42	5 +2			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect	04.15.08 / 1	4 ++	7 ++	5 ++	66 ++	7 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.20	WP 04.13	SFC 04.13	USAT 04.06	PW 04.14 (ch 01.14)	Amz (04.15)	UK: Amz UK (04.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Abercrombie, The Last Argument of Kings (UK)	03.18.08 / 5							29 +8
Andrews, Magic Burns	04.15.08 / 1	32 ++
Chance, Embrace the Night	04.08.08 / 2	6 ++			67 +52	7 ++		x
Gemmell/Gemmell, Troy: The Fall of Kings (UK) [tpb]	08.28.07 / 7							74 +
Harris, All Together Dead	04.08.08 / 2	31 -9			x
Hill, Heart-Shaped Box	04.08.08 / 2	34 -3
Matheson, I Am Legend	11.13.07 / 20	xxx..	xxx..		141 -57	xxx..	xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 54	12 =	xxx..	xxx	83 -12	xxx..	x	60 +19	63 -43
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 36				8 +2	xxx..	47 -5	xxx	xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK)	08.02.04 / 29							88 -13	xxx..
Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind	04.15.08 / 1	24 ++			143 ++
Smith, The Ruins	08.14.07 / 8	12 +11	xxx..		57 +65	13 +
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 04.20	WP 04.13	SFC 04.13	USAT 04.06	PW 04.14 (ch 01.14)	Amz (04.15)	UK: Amz UK (04.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (04.15)
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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