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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 8 January 2008
Among several debuts this week, the most notable perhaps is Patricia Briggs' Iron Kised (Ace), third in a series of mass market paperbacks about shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson. It debuts on three lists this week, as high as #8 on Publishers Weekly's mass market list.
Other debuts: a new Star Wars novel by Drew Karpyshyn, Darth Bane: Rule of Two (Del Rey) on three print lists, as high as #10 at PW; paperback editions of Dan Simmons' The Terror and Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Allegiance, both on the New York Times' lists; Anne & Todd McCaffrey's Dragon Harper, ranking #23 on New York Times's fiction hardcover list; and the UK edition of Iain M. Banks' Matter (Orbit), ranking today at #82 on Amazon UK.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.06 |
WP
01.06 |
SFC
01.06 |
USAT
12.30 |
PW
01.07
(ch 12.10) |
Amz
(01.08) |
UK:
Amz UK
(01.08) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.08) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | |
30x5 |
10x4 |
30x3 |
150 |
15x5 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Hardcovers |
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Banks, Matter (UK) |
01.08.08 / 1 |
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82 ++ |
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Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road |
10.30.07 / 11 |
xxx |
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1 +2 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
05.01.07 / 25 |
x |
xxx.. |
5 +1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
10.23.07 / 7 |
35 -5 |
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xxx.. |
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x |
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Goodkind, Confessor |
10.30.07 / 11 |
17 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
87 +36 |
xxx |
xxx.. |
xx |
xx |
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Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two |
01.08.08 / 1 |
14 ++ |
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66 ++ |
10 ++ |
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King, Duma Key |
01.01.08 / 2 |
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86 -10 |
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95 ++ |
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McCaffrey/McCaffrey, Dragon Harper |
01.08.08 / 1 |
23 ++ |
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Meyer, Eclipse |
08.14.07 / 22 |
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36 +20 |
xxx.. |
52 +12 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, New Moon |
08.14.07 / 22 |
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33 +32 |
xxx.. |
45 +11 |
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xxx.. |
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Pratchett, Making Money (UK) |
05.15.07 / 31 |
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90 -19 |
xxx.. |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
02.06.07 / 49 |
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xxx.. |
43 -12 |
xxx.. |
25 -15 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) |
12.26.06 / 54 |
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60 -23 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) |
02.06.07 / 49 |
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34 -9 |
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Salvatore, The Orc King: Transitions, Book One |
10.09.07 / 11 |
32 -1 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Tolkien, The Children of Húrin |
03.27.07 / 31 |
30 -7 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Westerfeld, Extras |
10.16.07 / 13 |
2 +4 |
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115 + |
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.06 |
WP
01.06 |
SFC
01.06 |
USAT
12.30 |
PW
01.07
(ch 12.10) |
Amz
(01.08) |
UK:
Amz UK
(01.08) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.08) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] |
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Briggs, Iron Kissed |
01.08.08 / 1 |
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93 ++ |
8 ++ |
64 ++ |
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Card, Empire |
12.25.07 / 3 |
27 -2 |
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Crichton, Next |
11.27.07 / 7 |
3 = |
7 + |
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52 -8 |
5 -1 |
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Koontz, Brother Odd |
11.13.07 / 9 |
21 -12 |
xxx.. |
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130 -47 |
15 -5 |
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Maguire, Wicked |
10.23.07 / 12 |
26 -13 |
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48 +6 |
xxx.. |
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Matheson, I Am Legend |
11.13.07 / 9 |
2 = |
10 + |
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11 +8 |
2 +1 |
x |
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Matheson, I Am Legend [tpb] |
11.06.07 / 9 |
6 = |
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xxx.. |
10 +1 |
xx |
12 -3 |
x |
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McCarthy, The Road [tpb] |
04.10.07 / 40 |
9 -2 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
57 +19 |
xxx.. |
41 -5 |
xxx.. |
27 +22 |
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Meyer, Twilight [tpb] |
08.14.07 / 22 |
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19 +21 |
xxx.. |
xx |
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xx |
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Paolini, Eldest [tpb] |
03.27.07 / 41 |
6 -4 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [tpb] |
12.25.07 / 3 |
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53 +50 |
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Pullman, The Golden Compass |
07.31.07 / 24 |
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x |
13 +8 |
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xx |
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Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) |
08.02.04 / 15 |
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6 -2 |
6 -3 |
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Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy |
11.17.02 / 18 |
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27 -10 |
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18 -14 |
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Pullman, The Subtle Knife [tpb] |
12.11.07 / 5 |
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45 +37 |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] |
07.25.06 / 77 |
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xxx.. |
88 -14 |
xxx.. |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [tpb] |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
135 -64 |
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Simmons, The Terror [tpb] |
01.08.08 / 1 |
29 ++ |
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Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest [tpb] |
10.30.07 / 11 |
20 -6 |
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131 +3 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Westerfeld, Pretties [tpb] |
12.19.06 / 8 |
9 -1 |
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Westerfeld, Specials [tpb] |
10.02.07 / 8 |
5 + |
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Zahn, Star Wars: Allegiance |
01.08.08 / 1 |
25 ++ |
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.06 |
WP
01.06 |
SFC
01.06 |
USAT
12.30 |
PW
01.07
(ch 12.10) |
Amz
(01.08) |
UK:
Amz UK
(01.08) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.08) |
| 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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