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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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September
 
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posted 4 September 2007

Two new young adult books -- Frank Beddor's Seeing Redd (Dial), second book in the "Looking Glass Wars", and Nancy Farmer's The Land of the Silver Apples (Atheneum) -- debut on New York Times children's chapter book list this week, Beddor at #4, Farmer at #10.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows retains the #1 spot on USA Today's combined list, and ranks #3 on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction hardcover list. It's #3 this week on Amazon, #10 on Amazon UK, and #2 on Amazon Canada.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.07
WP
09.02
SFC
09.02
USAT
08.26
PW
09.03
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(09.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.04)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.04)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Beddor, Seeing Redd 09.04.07 / 1 4 ++                
Brooks, The Elves of Cintra 08.28.07 / 2           88 -26 53 ++   x
Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union 05.01.07 / 19 32 +1 xxx.. 8 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Farmer, The Land of the Silver Apples 09.04.07 / 1 10 ++                
Gemmell/Gemmell, Troy: The Fall of Kings (UK) 08.28.07 / 2             13 -2    
Gibson, Spook Country 07.24.07 / 7 15 -6 x 2 +1 142 -66 14 -5 x xx   23 -10
Hamilton, The Dreaming Void (UK) 07.31.07 / 6             65 +15    
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune 07.24.07 / 7 10 -4 10 -4 x 80 -26 8 = xxx 63 +33   xx
Kenyon, Devil May Cry 08.07.07 / 5 12 -4 xx   93 -41 12 -2 xxx      
Marr, Wicked Lovely 07.03.07 / 10 8 -1                
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 4       2 = xx 8 =     x
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 4       10 +7 xx 20 -4     x
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife 10.12.03 / 28 xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     40 +10
Pratchett, Making Money (UK) 05.15.07 / 13             14 +9    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 31     3 -1 1 = xx 3 -1      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 37             10 -4    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 31                 2 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 95             41 -14    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 88                 42 -5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 06.29.03 / 63             82 -26    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 07.06.03 / 41                 37 +
Scott, The Alchemyst 07.03.07 / 10 6 -3       xx        
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 18 5 +1       xx xxx..      
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin 03.27.07 / 24 26 -5 xxx xxx.. xxx xxx xxx..     53 +19
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.07
WP
09.02
SFC
09.02
USAT
08.26
PW
09.03
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(09.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.04)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.04)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 76       134 -3   xxx..     xxx..
Brooks, Armageddon's Children 08.14.07 / 4       148 -19          
Erikson, The Reaper's Gale (UK) 04.24.07 / 17             xxx..   52 +21
Gaiman, Stardust 08.14.07 / 4 3 -1     72 -21 x xxx     76 +15
King, Lisey's Story 07.03.07 / 10 33 = xxx..   83 -13 xxx..       xxx..
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 196 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 120 -10 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 22 11 = xxx xxx 62 -2 13 -2 47 -20 xxx..   51 -25
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 4       7 +2 xx 50 -18     x
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 127             87 -28    
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 41       125 +20         xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 79       104 +21   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 24 5 =     x   xxx..     xxx..
Pullman, The Golden Compass 07.31.07 / 6       111 -10          
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy 11.17.02 / 10           70 -9      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)               99 -53    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 36 -6          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)               100 -51    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 167 xxx..   xxx.. 46 -13          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 59     xxx.. 30 -12 xxx.. 46 -13      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 126 xxx..   xxx.. 22 +1 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)               64 -27    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK)               67 -26    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 188 xxx..   xxx.. 40 -8          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 27 -3   xxx..      
Smith, The Ruins 08.14.07 / 4 13 = x   35 +3 7 -1        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.07
WP
09.02
SFC
09.02
USAT
08.26
PW
09.03
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(09.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.04)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.04)
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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