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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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Locus Bestsellers, compiled from sales at specialty stores:
January
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 17 January 2006

Not much new this week. Nothing significant has entered the lists in several weeks, and the Harry Potter books, boosted by the release of the fourth movie, are dropping off lists again. Stephen King's forthcoming Cell, already selling at Amazon for 6 weeks, may be the next genre title to break out onto print lists.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.22
WP
01.15
SFC
01.15
USAT
01.08
PW
01.16
(ch 01.16)
Amz
(01.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.17)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, The Penelopiad 01.03.06 / 2                 56 +
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 74 7 =     xxx.. 11 + xxx..     xxx..
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 18 2 =     x 4 + xxx..     xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 19             60 -17   xxx..
Jacques, High Rhulain 09.06.05 / 7       xxx.. 14 + xxx..      
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 08.16.05 / 23 25 -5 xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. xxx     xxx..
Jordan, Knife of Dreams (UK) 09.06.05 / 20             xxx.. 10 =  
King, Cell 12.13.05 / 6           22 +10     x
Koontz, Forever Odd 11.29.05 / 8 14 +1 xxx   137 -68 x xxx..      
Kostova, The Historian 06.14.05 / 32 33 -14 xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. xxx     xxx..
Maguire, Son of a Witch 09.20.05 / 18 18 -4 xxx.. xxx.. x xx xxx..     xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 42 22 +3 xxx.. x x xxx.. xxx     99 +
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 46 1 =   4 + 51 -10 2 + xxx xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 09.20.05 / 17               4 =  
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 100 xxx..     xxx.. 3 + xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 05.24.05 / 33             74 +13 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 57     xxx.. 55 -16 1 + 32 -5      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 55             81 +4 5 =  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 54                 75 +
Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate 12.27.05 / 4       60 -11 10 ++ x     x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.22
WP
01.15
SFC
01.15
USAT
01.08
PW
01.16
(ch 01.16)
Amz
(01.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.17)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Crichton, State of Fear 11.08.05 / 11 20 -7 xxx   44 -8 8 -1       xxx..
Denning, Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book III: The Swarm War 01.10.06 / 2 23 -7     33 -18 5 +3        
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 29 xxx..       12 +        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 31 6 +1     xxx.. 5 +        
Goodkind, Chainfire 12.13.05 / 6 x     115 -37 xx        
Koontz, Life Expectancy 11.08.05 / 11 28 -1 xxx..   128 -49 xx        
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 35 1 =     3 =   13 -4     xx
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.14.05 / 31 2 =     5 =          
Lewis, The Magician's Nephew 11.29.05 / 8       47 -16          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 113 15 -7 x xxx.. 16 -4 4 -1 53 =     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 82 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 83 +     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 54             10 -5    
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 37 3 =   xxx.. 71 -24          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 155 xxx..   xxx.. 120 -28          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 81 xxx..   xxx.. 84 -25 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 138 -16   xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.22
WP
01.15
SFC
01.15
USAT
01.08
PW
01.16
(ch 01.16)
Amz
(01.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.17)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.17)
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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