Locus Online: Bestsellers on General Lists: 22 July 2008

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The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

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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 22 July 2008

Naomi Novik's Victory of Eagles (Del Rey), fifth book in her Temeraire series and the first to appear in hardcover, debuts at #28 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list this week. David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder (Tor) ranks #52 today on Amazon Canada, while Neal Stephenson's forthcoming Anathem (Morrow), due September 9th, ranks #72 on Amazon.com with prepublication sales. The 1995 trade paperback edition of Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen (DC Comics) is the most striking bestseller this week, ranking #2 in sales on both Amazon.com and Amazon Canada today, #14 on Amazon UK -- presumably because the trailer for the forthcoming film, due March 2009, that's running before showings of *The Dark Knight. Publishers Weekly's children's lists have been posted irregularly in recent months, but the July list is available this week, with Cory Doctorow's Little Brother* in 14th place.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.27	WP 07.20	SFC 07.20	USAT 07.13	PW 07.21 (ch 07.14)	Amz (07.22)	UK: Amz UK (07.22)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.22)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox	07.01.08 / 4						21 -4	30 =	61 -39
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	10.23.07 / 27	31 =		2 +1	xxx..		62 -6		xxx..
Doctorow, Little Brother	05.20.08 / 8	xx				14 ++
Koontz, Odd Hours	05.06.08 / 12	23 -3	xxx..		120 -15	xx	xxx..		xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn	02.12.08 / 24						1 =		1 +1
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 50				5 +1	2 +	5 +4		xxx..
Meyer, The Host	02.12.08 / 21	7 -1	x	xxx..	19 +5	3 +2	26 +6	xxx..	12 -5
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 50				xxx..	3 +	11 =		xxx..
Meyer, Twilight	08.14.07 / 15						29 -4		xxx..
Novik, Victory of Eagles	07.22.08 / 1	28 ++
Paolini, Brisingr	01.22.08 / 27						16 +3	28 +17	23 +5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 77			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	55 +4
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence	05.27.08 / 9	27 -2		3 -2	xxx..		xxx		xxx..
Scott, The Magician	07.08.08 / 3	7 -2			xx
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 56	8 -1			xxx..	9 +	xxx..
Stephenson, Anathem	07.22.08 / 1						72 ++
Weber, By Schism Rent Asunder	07.22.08 / 1								52 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.27	WP 07.20	SFC 07.20	USAT 07.13	PW 07.21 (ch 07.14)	Amz (07.22)	UK: Amz UK (07.22)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.22)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 85				115 +9		xxx..		xxx..
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb]	05.13.08 / 11	21 +1	xxx..	1 =	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx
Grimwood, Replay [tpb]	07.15.08 / 2						58 -28
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune	07.15.08 / 2	25 +7
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 68	6 +2	xxx..	xxx..	86 -1	xxx..	57 -12	105 -27	70 +1
Meyer, New Moon [tpb]	06.17.08 / 6				3 -1		13 +7
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 50				2 -1	1 +	4 -1	xxx..	xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb]	07.22.08 / 1						2 ++	14 ++	2 ++
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 128	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		63 +
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6: Superior Saturday (UK) [tpb]	06.10.08 / 7							19 +1
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 89				118 +16		xxx..		xxx..
Pratchett, Making Money	06.17.08 / 6							50 -16
Reaves, Star Wars: Jedi Twilight: Coruscant Nights I	07.08.08 / 3	x			134 -28	xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	07.22.08 / 1							40 ++
Salvatore, The Orc King: Transitions, Book One	07.15.08 / 2	19 +16			108 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.27	WP 07.20	SFC 07.20	USAT 07.13	PW 07.21 (ch 07.14)	Amz (07.22)	UK: Amz UK (07.22)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.22)
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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