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Jim Butcher
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Aaron Allston
Philip Pullman

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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 25 December 2007

Washington Post takes the week off, but all other lists are updated this holiday weekend. Not much new this week; titles by Philip Pullman again creep up on USA Today and Amazon lists.

Debuting this week is the paperback reprint edition of Orson Scott Card's Empire (Tor), on the NY Times paperback list at #21.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.30
WP
12.16
SFC
12.23
USAT
12.16
PW
12.24
(ch 12.10)
Amz
(12.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.25)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Captain's Fury 12.18.07 / 2 35 -18     x        
Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road 10.30.07 / 9 x   1 +3 xxx..   xxx..    
Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union 05.01.07 / 23 29 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 5 31 +   xxx..     82 ++    
Goodkind, Confessor 10.30.07 / 9 16 -1   xxx.. 107 -36 x xxx 91 + 57 +12
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 20       59 -6 xx 34 +44   xxx..
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 20       67 -2 xx 36 +38   xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife 10.12.03 / 31 xxx..     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   35 +3
Pratchett, Making Money (UK) 05.15.07 / 29             27 +21 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 47     xxx.. 29 +9 xx 10 +15    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 52             42 +58  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 47               20 +13
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 27 4 +1       xx x    
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin 03.27.07 / 29 24 +1   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx   xxx..
Westerfeld, Extras 10.16.07 / 11 6 -2     xxx        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.30
WP
12.16
SFC
12.23
USAT
12.16
PW
12.24
(ch 12.10)
Amz
(12.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.25)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Allston, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Fury 12.11.07 / 3   [ 9 ]   135 -60 8 -4      
Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars 10.02.07 / 12 5 =              
Card, Empire 12.25.07 / 1 21 ++              
Crichton, Next 11.27.07 / 5 3 = [ 7 ]   44 = 4 -1      
King, The Mist 10.16.07 / 11 18 -7     xx x      
Koontz, Brother Odd 11.13.07 / 7 11 -3     89 -12 12 -1      
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 10 14 -2     68 +10 xxx..      
Matheson, I Am Legend 11.13.07 / 7 2 =     21 = 3 +2 55 +9    
Matheson, I Am Legend [tpb] 11.06.07 / 7 6 =     xxx.. 13 = 80 ++ 35 ++ 53 +36
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 38 8 -1   xxx.. 88 +9 xxx.. 43 -6 xxx.. 41 +5
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 20       41 +4 xx 85 +   64 +
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 39 2 =     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 120 3 +7   xxx.. xxx..        
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [tpb] 12.25.07 / 1       72 ++        
Pullman, The Golden Compass 07.31.07 / 22     8 = 14 +1       62 -21
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 13             4 +2 4 +1
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy 11.17.02 / 16       13 =   5 +3    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife [tpb] 12.11.07 / 3       71 +5        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 148 +        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 75     xxx.. 77 +15 xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 138 xxx..   xxx.. 119 +28 xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 78 +9   xxx..    
Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest [tpb] 10.30.07 / 9 15 -5     123 -19 xx xxx..   xxx..
Westerfeld, Pretties [tpb] 12.19.06 / 6 10 +              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.30
WP
12.16
SFC
12.23
USAT
12.16
PW
12.24
(ch 12.10)
Amz
(12.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.25)
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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