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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 27 May 2008

A new Star Wars novel by Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible (Del Rey), debuts strongly on print lists this week, as high as #4 on Publishers Weekly's fiction hardcover list.

Stephenie Meyer's The Host debuts this week on the fifth of the five print lists compiled here, Washington Post's, though it's already dropped off San Francisco Chronicle's list.

Salman Rushdie's new novel The Enchantress of Florence (Random House), in stores today, ranks this week on a couple Amazon lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.01
WP
05.25
SFC
05.25
USAT
05.18
PW
05.26
Amz
(05.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.26)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible 05.13.08 / 3 5 ++ 8 ++   14 ++ 4 ++ x   xx
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 19 27 -3   5 -3     56 -10    
Doctorow, Little Brother 05.20.08 / 2 9 =              
Gingrich/Forstchen, Days of Infamy 05.13.08 / 3 17 +4     x xx      
Hamilton, Blood Noir 05.20.08 / 2           31 +26   32 ++
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 4 13 -7 x   65 -41 10 -5 x    
Koontz, Brother Odd 11.28.06 / 13 xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 45 +7  
Koontz, Odd Hours 05.06.08 / 4           22 +12   61 -17
Marr, Ink Exchange 05.13.08 / 3 6 -1              
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 16           3 +2   28 -11
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 42       16 +10 xxx.. 14 +2   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 13 1 = 2 ++ x 4 -1 1 = 12 -5 xx 8 +2
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 42       13 +6 xxx.. 13 -2   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 7           91 +1   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 19           23 +6 44 = 75 -21
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK) 03.25.08 / 10             20 -4  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 69     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 45 +11    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 68             96 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 66               88 +
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence 05.27.08 / 1           66 ++   96 ++
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 48 7 -1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.01
WP
05.25
SFC
05.25
USAT
05.18
PW
05.26
Amz
(05.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.26)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Arthur, The Darkest Kiss 05.13.08 / 3 28 -13     87 -27 x      
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb] 05.13.08 / 3 9 -3 7 = 4 -3 128 -4 x 97 ++   x
Hamilton, The Harlequin 05.13.08 / 3 20 -1     111 -21 xx      
Lewis, Prince Caspian 05.13.08 / 3 6 +1              
Marr, Wicked Lovely [tpb] 05.20.08 / 2 9 +1              
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 60 20 -1 xxx.. xxx 140 + xxx.. 77 + 71 -7 22 +25
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 42       7 +3 xxx.. 8 +2 xxx.. xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 35             77 -11 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.01
WP
05.25
SFC
05.25
USAT
05.18
PW
05.26
Amz
(05.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.26)
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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