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Dan Simmons
David Weber
Guy Gavriel Kay
J.K. Rowling

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Dan Simmons
Christopher Moore
Guy Gavriel Kay J.K. Rowling

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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 30 January 2007

Christopher Moore's You Suck: A Love Story (Morrow) debuts on all five print lists compiled here, as high as #3 on the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle fiction hardcover lists.

A fantasy novel by 12-year-old Nancy Yi Fan, Swordbird (HarperCollins), debuts at #10 on the New York Times children's chapter book list this week.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Bloomsbury) still ranks #1 on Amazon UK this week.

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

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.04
WP
01.28
SFC
01.28
USAT
01.21
PW
01.29
(ch 01.08)
Amz
(01.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.30)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.30)
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 / 29 5 +2     xxx.. xxx..        
Colfer, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (UK) 08.01.06 / 24             xxx.. 48 -12  
Crichton, Next 11.14.06 / 12 11 -4 6 -1 xxx.. 32 -9 5 = xx   4 +63 x
Funke, Inkspell 09.06.05 / 45 7 +1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Harris, Hannibal Rising 12.05.06 / 9 12 -2 8 -1   37 -3 13 -4 52 +47     95 -45
Harris, Hannibal Rising (UK) 12.05.06 / 9             33 +3 7 -1  
Kay, Ysabel (CANADA) 01.09.07 / 4                 52 -33
King, Lisey's Story 09.19.06 / 19 32 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx xxx..     xxx..
Koontz, Brother Odd 11.28.06 / 10 20 -6 xxx..   128 -32 xx xxx..      
McCarthy, The Road 09.26.06 / 19 30 -6 xxx.. 7 -4 xx xxx.. 60 +10 xxx..   xxx..
Moore, You Suck: A Love Story 01.16.07 / 3 6 ++ 3 ++ 3 ++ 23 ++ 4 ++ x     34 +22
Paolini, Eldest 03.01.05 / 100 1 =   xxx.. 27 -5 xx 36 -1 xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest, Deluxe Edition 10.10.06 / 17       x         66 -7
Paolini, Eragon 09.07.03 / 118 9 -6     xxx.. xx xxx..     xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 6             1 =    
Simmons, The Terror 01.16.07 / 3 19 +1     99 +16 x 69 -9     xx
Weber, Off Armageddon Reef 01.23.07 / 2 27 -2     x          
Yi Fan, Swordbird 01.30.07 / 1 10 ++                
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.04
WP
01.28
SFC
01.28
USAT
01.21
PW
01.29
(ch 01.08)
Amz
(01.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.30)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.30)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Briggs, Blood Bound 01.30.07 / 1           65 ++      
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 38 xxx..   8 = xxx..   xxx.. 86 -44    
James, The Children of Men [tpb] 01.16.07 / 3       147 -27          
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 12.12.06 / 8 xx     149 -3 xxx        
King, Cell 12.05.06 / 9 23 -7 xxx..   35 +2 14 -1       xxx..
Koontz, Forever Odd 12.05.06 / 9 27 +6 xxx..   66 +14 xxx        
Kostova, The Historian [tpb] 10.17.06 / 14 xxx.. xxx..   95 +17 xxx..        
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 17 xxx     116 = xxx..        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 167 28 -7 xxx.. xxx.. 30 +6 14 -1 xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 122 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 125 -15 xxx.. 95 +     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 97             23 -6    
Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx [tpb] 10.31.06 / 14 29 -3 xxx..   81 -6 xx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eldest (UK) 11.07.06 / 13             55 -18 56 +9  
Paolini, Eragon 11.14.06 / 12       9 -2          
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.11.05 / 40             xxx 57 +7  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 91 1 =   xxx.. xxx..          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 28     xxx.. 92 -3   xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) [tpb] 06.27.06 / 9             xxx.. 30 -5  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 101 xxx..   xxx.. 140 + xxx.. xxx..      
Westerfeld, Pretties [tpb] 12.19.06 / 3 7 +                
Westerfeld, Uglies [tpb] 01.09.07 / 4 5 =       xx        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.04
WP
01.28
SFC
01.28
USAT
01.21
PW
01.29
(ch 01.08)
Amz
(01.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.30)
Australia:
Dymocks
(01.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.30)
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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