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Christopher Paolini
Bret Easton Ellis
David & Leigh Eddings
Patrick Carman

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Christopher Paolini
Harry Turtledove
Terry Brooks
David Gemmell

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

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+/- 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 6 September 2005

Christopher Paolini's Eldest debuts at #1 on the New York Times' children's chapter book list, and -- perhaps more significantly -- debuts at #3 on San Francisco Chronicle's hardcover fiction list. It jumped to #1 on the USA Today list, after a low-ranking debut last week, and ranks at #4 this week on all three Amazon lists compiled here.

Other debuts this week, some due to pre-publication sales, include Raymond E. Feist's Flight of the Nighthawks, Cornelia Funke's Inkspell, Herbert/Herbert/Anderson's The Road to Dune, Brian Jacques' High Rhulain, and S.M. Stirling's The Protector's War.

Presumably due to the US Labor Day holiday, Publishers Weekly hasn't updated its site today. If it updates later this week, this page will be amended.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.11
WP
09.04
SFC
09.04
USAT
08.28
PW
08.29
(ch 08.15)
Amz
(09.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.06)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.06)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Straken 08.21.05 / 2           32 +     28 ++
Carman, Beyond The Valley Of Thorns 08.28.05 / 2 3 -1                
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception 04.10.05 / 21       140 +   xxx..     xxx..
Ellis, Lunar Park 08.21.05 / 3 21 -8   10 -4 x [ 11 ] xx      
Feist, Flight of the Nighthawks (UK) 09.04.05 / 1             28 ++    
Funke, Inkspell 09.04.05 / 1                 33 ++
Gemmell, Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (UK) 08.21.05 / 3             22 -10    
Herbert/Herbert, The Road to Dune 09.04.05 / 1           98 ++      
Jacques, High Rhulain 09.04.05 / 1           27 ++      
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 08.14.05 / 4           19 +9     53 ++
Jordan, Knife of Dreams (UK) 09.04.05 / 1             78 ++    
Kostova, The Historian 06.12.05 / 13 3 = 2 +3 2 = 5 +10 [ 3 ] 9 =     20 -13
Kostova, The Historian (UK) 07.03.05 / 9             xxx 6 =  
Martin, A Feast for Crows (UK) 09.04.05 / 1             52 ++    
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 27 1 ++   3 ++ 1 +131   4 -2 4 -1   4 =
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 93 xxx..     xxx..   57 +     xxx..
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 04.24.05 / 20 6 +1     xxx..          
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 05.22.05 / 14             11 +15    
Pratchett, Where's My Cow? (UK) 07.03.05 / 5             77 -6    
Robb, Origin in Death 07.10.05 / 9 35 -11 xxx   xxx   xxx..     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (CANADA) 07.17.05 / 5                 81 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 38     1 = 2 -1   1 +3      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 36             18 -3 1 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 37                 11 +15
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 98 xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   94 +      
Stirling, The Protector's War 09.04.05 / 1           55 ++      
Stroud, The Golem's Eye 08.30.04 / 21 8 +     xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.11
WP
09.04
SFC
09.04
USAT
08.28
PW
08.29
(ch 08.15)
Amz
(09.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.06)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.06)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 45       125 -11   xxx..     xxx..
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Straken (UK) 08.21.05 / 3             65 +1    
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 09.04.05 / 1           38 ++      
Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [tpb] 07.17.05 / 8 3 =     70 -11          
Denning, Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book 1: The Joiner King 08.07.05 / 5 33 -1     94 -21 [ 15 ]        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.29.05 / 15 10 -1     xxx..          
Koontz/Anderson, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night 07.24.05 / 7 8 -1 xx   31 -10 [ 3 ] xxx..      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 16 2 =     38 -1   34 +19      
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.12.05 / 12 5 +1     76 +16          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 94 13 +1 6 +2 7 +2 15 -4 [ 3 ] 70 -1     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 68 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 75 =   46 +2     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 35             23 -10    
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 37       116 +20         xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 45       134 =   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.09.05 / 13             32 -11 6 =  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.08.05 / 18 1 =     10 +39          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 89 -35          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)               xxx.. 10 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 136 xxx..   xxx.. 42 -9          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 35             x 8 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 18                 63 -28
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 62 xxx..   xxx.. 30 -10   xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 171 xxx..   xxx.. 68 +          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 53 +   xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] 10.20.02 / 25       xxx..   54 +6      
Stephenson, The System of the World [tpb] 09.04.05 / 1                 100 ++
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 31 xxx..   2 +1 xx          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.11
WP
09.04
SFC
09.04
USAT
08.28
PW
08.29
(ch 08.15)
Amz
(09.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.06)
Australia:
Dymocks
(09.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.06)
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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