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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:
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posted 26 December 2006

Laurell K. Hamilton's latest Meredith Gentry novel Mistral's Kiss (Ballantine) debuts on three lists this week, as high as #8 on New York Times' fiction hardcover list.

Amazon UK is taking orders for J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Bloomsbury), which ranks #1 today on the site's bestseller list, despite the unknown publication date.

Publishers Weekly takes this week off. Dymocks, the Australian online bookseller which redesigned its site several weeks ago, now has an Amazon-like uncategorized bestseller list (click Books, then Bestseller), with 88 items on it today, several of which are tallied below.

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Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.31
WP
12.24
SFC
12.24
USAT
12.17
PW
12.18
(ch 12.11)
Amz
(12.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(12.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.26)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Shadow Thieves 07.11.06 / 24 7 +1     xxx.. [ 11 ]        
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 10.24.06 / 7 xxx..         81 +     x
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony 09.12.06 / 16       93 -5   x     xxx..
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 19             xxx.. 78 +  
Crichton, Next 11.14.06 / 7 3 -1 3 -2 5 -1 6 -3 [ 2 ] 12 -3   9 ++ 6 +19
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 42 10 +     xxx..   xxx..     xxx..
Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss 12.26.06 / 1 8 ++     28 ++          
Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss (UK) 12.26.06 / 1             32 ++    
Harris, Hannibal Rising 12.05.06 / 4 5 +1 4 -1   9 -3 [ 4 ] 34 +3     15 +50
Harris, Hannibal Rising (UK) 12.05.06 / 4             21 -4 33 ++  
King, Lisey's Story 09.19.06 / 14 9 +1 xxx xxx.. 30 -1 [ 9 ] 64 -22     8 +77
King, Lisey's Story (UK) 10.10.06 / 12             59 +3 47 +  
Koontz, Brother Odd 11.28.06 / 5 7 = x   21 -6 [ 7 ] 66 +1      
McCarthy, The Road 09.26.06 / 14 32 +1 xxx.. xxx xxx..   31 +29 xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 95 1 =   xxx.. x [ 3 ] 28 -2 xxx..   x
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition 10.10.06 / 12       26 +11          
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 113 2 =     xxx.. [ 1 ] 72 -27     x
Paolini, Eragon/Eldest Boxed Set 12.26.06 / 1       145 ++   69 ++      
Powers, The Echo Maker 10.31.06 / 4 22 +   2 ++     89 -36      
Pratchett, Wintersmith (UK) 05.09.06 / 31             20 = xxx.. xxx..
Pynchon, Against the Day 11.28.06 / 5 34 -6 xxx 8 -7 xx   x     69 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 1             1 ++    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.31
WP
12.24
SFC
12.24
USAT
12.17
PW
12.18
(ch 12.11)
Amz
(12.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(12.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.26)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barry/Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers 07.18.06 / 14 10 +       [ 8 ]        
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest 12.12.06 / 3 31 -10 xx   x [ 15 ]        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 45 5 -1     xxx..          
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 12.12.06 / 3 23 -5     115 -49 [ 8 ]        
King, Cell 12.05.06 / 4 3 -1 4 =   20 -2 [ 2 ]       33 ++
Koontz, Forever Odd 12.05.06 / 4 12 = xxx   53 -8 [ 7 ]        
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 12 34 +     94 +8          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 162 14 +8 xxx.. xxx.. 42 +8 [ 15 ] xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 93             39 -8    
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb] 10.31.06 / 9 21 +3 xxx..   81 +3 [ 14 ] xxx.. 51 ++   xx
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 11.07.06 / 8             14 +22 48 ++  
Paolini, Eragon 11.14.06 / 7       2 +2          
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 35             16 +10 14 +  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 86 1 =   xxx.. xxx..          
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 09.19.06 / 15             44 +6 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 23     xxx.. 57 +3   xxx..      
Westerfeld, Pretties [tpb] 12.19.06 / 2 4 +4                
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.31
WP
12.24
SFC
12.24
USAT
12.17
PW
12.18
(ch 12.11)
Amz
(12.26)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.26)
Australia:
Dymocks
(12.26)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.26)
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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