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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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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 11 October 2005

Two associational (i.e. not written by 'genre' authors) fantasy bestsellers debut this week: Diana Gabaldon's A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Delacorte), latest in the 'Outlander' historical romance series, and Gregory Maguire's Son of a Witch (Regan Books), sequel to the Broadway-musical-spawning Wicked (1995) about Oz's western witch. The books debut in the #1 and #2 spots respectively on three different lists, from New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly, and place in the top 10 on print lists from San Francisco Chronicle and USA Today as well.

Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys moves up to #1 in San Franciso but slips on other lists, though still solidly in the top 10 at NYC, SFC, and PW.

Other debuts this week: the latest Troy Denning Star Wars novel, on 3 lists; Tamora Pierce's The Will of the Empress, at #4 on NYT's children's chapter book list; and the paperback reprint of Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams, on the USA Today list.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.16
WP
10.09
SFC
10.09
USAT
10.02
PW
10.10
(ch 09.12)
Amz
(10.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.11)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.11)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Brooks, High Druid of Shannara: Straken 08.23.05 / 7 16 -2 xxx   105 -53 x xxx     xx
Carman, Beyond The Valley Of Thorns 08.30.05 / 5 6 +                
Carman, The Dark Hills Divide 02.08.05 / 22 10 +       xxx..        
Feist, Flight of the Nighthawks (UK) 09.06.05 / 6             54 -12    
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 60 7 +1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 4 2 +1     49 -4   62 -13     xx
Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes 10.11.05 / 1 1 ++ 1 ++ 4 ++ 2 ++ 1 ++ 19 ++     6 ++
Gaiman, Anansi Boys 09.13.05 / 5 8 -7 5 -2 1 +1 33 -22 6 -5 72 -17     10 +
Hamilton, Judas Unchained (UK) 08.30.05 / 6             15 -5    
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 04.12.05 / 16 xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   78 +     x
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 11             13 +63   xxx..
Jacques, High Rhulain 09.06.05 / 3       115 -4   xxx..      
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 08.16.05 / 9           4 +5     1 +3
Jordan, Knife of Dreams (UK) 09.06.05 / 6             5 +12    
Kostova, The Historian 06.14.05 / 18 10 -3 x xx 52 -26 8 -3 50 -13     x
Maguire, Son of a Witch 09.20.05 / 4 2 ++ 2 ++ 5 ++ 8 ++ 2 ++ 59 -23     xx
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 28           54 +12     47 -17
Martin, A Feast for Crows (UK) 09.06.05 / 6             7 +15    
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 32 1 =   9 -6 7 -5 xxx.. 32 -3 33 -6   26 +
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 4               1 =  
Pierce, The Will of the Empress 10.11.05 / 1 4 ++                
Pratchett, Thud! 09.13.05 / 5 19 -4 xx x 128 -42 x xxx      
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 05.24.05 / 19             4 -2   42 -14
Pratchett, Where's My Cow? (UK) 07.05.05 / 10             23 -17   x
Robb, Survivor in Death 02.01.05 / 13 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 85 -54 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 43     8 -3 13 -8 xxx.. 11 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 41             68 -1 3 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 42                 4 +14
Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate (UK) 10.04.05 / 2             78 -45    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.16
WP
10.09
SFC
10.09
USAT
10.02
PW
10.10
(ch 09.12)
Amz
(10.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.11)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.11)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [tpb] 09.13.05 / 5 x   7 -4 100 -36 xxx        
Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [tpb] 07.19.05 / 12 7 +     xxx.. xxx..        
DeCandido, Serenity 10.04.05 / 2       135 +4          
Denning, Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book II: The Unseen Queen 10.11.05 / 1 22 ++     30 ++ 13 ++        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 17 9 +     xxx.. xxx..        
Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (UK) [tpb] 10.11.05 / 1             35 ++    
Hamilton, Incubus Dreams 10.11.05 / 1       68 ++          
Koontz/Anderson, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night 07.26.05 / 12 x xxx..   127 -38 xxx.. xxx..      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 21 3 -1     44 -6   52 -7      
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.14.05 / 17 5 =     57 +1          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 99 8 +5 7 -2 5 +2 12 +1 2 +2 46 -20     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 73 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 130 -40 xxx.. x     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 40             42 +11    
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 18             xxx.. 4 =  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 23 1 =   xxx.. 20 -12          
Pratchett, Going Postal (UK) 10.04.05 / 2             17 -8    
Robb, Survivor in Death 09.20.05 / 4 27 -18 xxx     x        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 141 xxx..   xxx.. 93 -12          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 67 xxx..   xxx.. 102 -19 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 144 -14   xxx..      
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Two Swords 09.13.05 / 5 xxx..     132 -32 x        
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.08.05 / 36 xxx..   9 -5 xx          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.16
WP
10.09
SFC
10.09
USAT
10.02
PW
10.10
(ch 09.12)
Amz
(10.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.11)
Australia:
Dymocks
(10.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.11)
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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