Locus Online: Bestsellers on General Lists: 13 May 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.

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posted 14 May 2008

The trade paperback edition of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union (HarperPerennial) debuts on all five print lists compiled here this week, ranking as high as #6 on the San Francisco Chronicle list. Also debuting in paperback: the latest of Keri Arthur's Riley Jensen paranormal romance novels, The Darkest Kiss (Dell), on three lists, and the reprint of Laurell K. Hamilton's The Harlequin (Jove), also on three lists. In hardcover, a new alternate history novel by Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Days of Infamy (St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne) debuts on three lists, as high as #11 at New York Times.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.18	WP 05.11	SFC 05.11	USAT 05.04	PW 05.12	Amz (05.14)	UK: Amz UK (05.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.14)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Small Favor	03.18.08 / 9	24 -7	xx	xxx	x	x	xxx		xxx..
Clare, City of Ashes	04.08.08 / 6	6 -1			xxx..
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible	05.13.08 / 1						39 ++		52 ++
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	10.23.07 / 17	15 +4		1 +4			38 -5
Gingrich/Forstchen, Days of Infamy	05.13.08 / 1	11 ++			84 ++	12 ++
Harris, From Dead to Worse	05.06.08 / 2						60 -23
Koontz, Odd Hours	05.06.08 / 2						73 -4		24 ++
Marr, Ink Exchange	05.13.08 / 1	8 ++
Meyer, Breaking Dawn	02.12.08 / 14						4 +4		xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 40				24 -7	xxx..	17 +7		xxx..
Meyer, The Host	02.12.08 / 11						8 +1	78 ++	13 -8
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 40				21 -7	xxx..	15 +5		xxx..
Meyer, Twilight	08.14.07 / 5						87 +		xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr	01.22.08 / 17						28 =	59 -39	59 +1
Patterson, The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel	03.18.08 / 9				109 -38		xxx..
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK)	03.25.08 / 8							13 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 67			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	42 +21
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA)	02.06.07 / 65								88 +6
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Four: Queste	04.15.08 / 5				146 -73		xxx
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 46	5 +1			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect	04.15.08 / 5	14 -5	xx	x	xx	x

Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.18	WP 05.11	SFC 05.11	USAT 05.04	PW 05.12	Amz (05.14)	UK: Amz UK (05.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.14)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Arthur, The Darkest Kiss	05.13.08 / 1	16 ++			29 ++	10 ++
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb]	05.13.08 / 1	7 ++	9 ++	6 ++	116 ++	9 ++			71 ++
Hamilton, The Harlequin	05.13.08 / 1	15 ++			76 ++	15 ++
Hamilton, The Dreaming Void (UK)	05.13.08 / 1							87 ++
Lewis, Prince Caspian	05.13.08 / 1	8 ++
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 58	17 +1	xxx..	x	x	xxx..	98 -2	43 +4	60 -2
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 40				8 -3	xxx..	13 +12	xxx..	xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK)	08.02.04 / 33							49 -18	xxx..
Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind	04.15.08 / 5	31 -21			x	x
Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice	05.13.08 / 1	20 ++			98 ++
Weber/Evans, Hell's Gate	05.13.08 / 1	35 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 05.18	WP 05.11	SFC 05.11	USAT 05.04	PW 05.12	Amz (05.14)	UK: Amz UK (05.14)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.14)
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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