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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 9 May 2006

Kelley Armstrong's Broken (Bantam Spectra), debuts strongly on US print lists this week, debuting on 3 of them, as high as #3 on Publishers Weekly's mass-market list and #22 on USA Today's combined list.

Also notable this week: the UK edition of David & Leigh Eddings' The Younger Gods (HarperCollins Voyager) ranks high today on Amazon UK's list, and Australian bookseller Dymocks' fiction list. Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith (Doubleday UK), not due to appear until October, ranks #67 on Amazon UK's list this week with pre-orders.

And the second volume of Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" trilogy, Throne of Jade (Ballantine Del Rey), places #104 on Amazon's list today.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.14
WP
05.07
SFC
05.07
USAT
04.30
PW
05.08
(ch 04.10)
Amz
(05.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.09)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.09)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Eddings/Eddings, The Younger Gods (UK) 05.09.06 / 1             14 ++ 10 ++  
Feist, Flight of the Nighthawks 04.04.06 / 4 34 =     xx   xxx..     xxx..
Harris, Definitely Dead 05.02.06 / 2           57 -38     76 -59
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.22.05 / 31             35 -3   xxx..
King, Cell 12.13.05 / 22 32 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx xxx     xxx
Mitchell, Black Swan Green 04.25.06 / 3     5 -1           xx
Mitchell, Black Swan Green (UK) 05.02.06 / 2             12 +4    
Moore, A Dirty Job 03.28.06 / 7 29 -17   7 -5 x x xxx..     x
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 62 1 =   xxx.. xx xxx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 1             67 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 73     xxx.. x xxx 80 -24      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 69             38 +30 xxx..  
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Two: Flyte 03.28.06 / 7 6 +1     xxx.. xxx     xxx..  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.14
WP
05.07
SFC
05.07
USAT
04.30
PW
05.08
(ch 04.10)
Amz
(05.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.09)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.09)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, Broken 04.25.06 / 3 21 ++     22 ++ 3 ++ xx     74 -55
Armstrong, Broken (UK) 04.25.06 / 3             29 +21    
Erikson, The Bonehunters (UK) 02.21.06 / 10             xxx..   31 -10
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 7 x   3 -1 94 -11   xxx      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 51 5 -3     150 -78   xx     xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 129 27 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 44 +1 14 + xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 96 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 71 +24     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 69             4 +1    
Novik, Throne of Jade 05.09.06 / 1       104 ++          
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 53 6 =   xxx.. xx          
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 05.09.06 / 1 1 ++     23 ++          
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk 04.04.06 / 6 7 +2     xx          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.14
WP
05.07
SFC
05.07
USAT
04.30
PW
05.08
(ch 04.10)
Amz
(05.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.09)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.09)
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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