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Bestsellers 11 September
Terry Brooks
Troy Denning

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Frank Beddor
Nancy Farmer
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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posted 18 September 2007

Terry Brooks' The Elves of Cintra maintains #5 rankings on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows still ranks #4 on the San Francisco Chronicle and USA Today lists.

Meanwhile, the New York Times, which has contrived to avoid listing the latest Harry Potter by name altogether, consigning it to a 'series book' entry on its children's books page, has just this week split its paperback fiction rankings into separate lists for trade paperbacks and mass market paperbacks. Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife squeaks onto the former list in last, 35th, place, while Terry Brooks' Armageddon's Children appears on the latter list at #32.

A new novel by S.M. Stirling, The Sunrise Lands (Roc), debuts this week on New York Times' fiction hardcover list at #25.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.23
WP
09.16
SFC
09.16
USAT
09.09
PW
09.17
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(09.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.18)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Beddor, Seeing Redd 09.04.07 / 3 4 =                
Brooks, The Elves of Cintra 08.28.07 / 4 5 = 8 -3   61 -36 5 = xx 100 +   x
Gibson, Spook Country 07.24.07 / 9 22 -2 xxx 5 -3 xx xx xxx xxx..   82 -40
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune 07.24.07 / 9 17 -3 xx xxx x x xxx.. xx   xxx..
Kenyon, Devil May Cry 08.07.07 / 7 26 -10 xxx..   x xx xxx..      
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 6       7 -1 xxx.. 19 -9     58 +
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 6       22 +2 xxx.. 24 +1     85 -12
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 4           xxx     70 ++
Pratchett, Making Money 08.21.07 / 2           39 +      
Pratchett, Making Money (UK) 05.15.07 / 15             3 +12   24 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 33     4 = 4 -2 xxx.. 11 -5      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 39             18 -2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 33                 9 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 97             53 +7    
Scott, The Alchemyst 07.03.07 / 12 7 =       xxx..        
Stirling, The Sunrise Lands 09.18.07 / 1 25 ++                
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.23
WP
09.16
SFC
09.16
USAT
09.09
PW
09.17
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(09.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.18)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 78       104 +36   xxx..     xxx..
Brooks, Armageddon's Children 08.14.07 / 6 32 ++     x          
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Inferno 09.11.07 / 2 8 -1 x   28 -13 4 +2        
Gaiman, Stardust 08.14.07 / 6 6 -1     x xxx xxx..     xx
Gemmell/Gemmell, Troy: The Fall of Kings (UK) 08.28.07 / 4             35 -3    
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 24 9 +8 xxx.. 5 + 83 -7 13 = 57 -18 xxx..   22 =
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 6       16 +2 xxx.. 59 -10     xxx
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 127 35 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 128             94 +    
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 81       127 +1   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 26 5 +3     xxx   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 109 10 +   xxx.. xxx..          
Pullman, The Golden Compass 07.31.07 / 8       118 +2          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 66 -10          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 169 xxx..   xxx.. 70 -7          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 61     xxx.. 27 +5 xxx.. 91 -27      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 128 xxx..   xxx.. 43 -6 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 190 xxx..   xxx.. 72 +3          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 44 +1   xxx..      
Smith, The Ruins 08.14.07 / 6 xx xxx   135 -35 xx        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.23
WP
09.16
SFC
09.16
USAT
09.09
PW
09.17
(ch 08.13)
Amz
(09.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.18)
Australia:
Dymocks
(06.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.18)
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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