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= 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 15 April 2008

Jim Butcher's Small Favor (Roc) makes a very impressive debut on print lists this week, ranking #1 on Publishers Weekly's fiction hardcover list, #2 on the same lists at New York Times and Washington Post, and #3 on USA Today's combined list.

Of associational interest is a new collection of essays by Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect (Putnam), debuting on all five print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #4 on New York Times' hardcover nonfiction list.

Three paperbacks debut on various lists: Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind (DAW), Karen Chance's Embrace the Night (Roc) -- #6 on NYT's mass market paperback list -- and Ilona Andrews' Magic Burns (Ace).

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.20
WP
04.13
SFC
04.13
USAT
04.06
PW
04.14
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(04.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (UK) 07.17.07 / 9             84 -28  
Armstrong, Personal Demon 04.08.08 / 2 24 -6 x   148 -78 x      
Banks, Matter (UK) 01.08.08 / 15             85 -19  
Butcher, Small Favor 03.18.08 / 5 2 ++ 2 ++ 7 ++ 3 ++ 1 ++ 53 -15   xxx..
Clare, City of Ashes 04.08.08 / 2 4 -1     x        
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 13 xxx..   xxx..     28 -17    
Feist, Wrath of a Mad God 04.08.08 / 2 20 -4     135 -67 x     x
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails 02.19.08 / 9 35 -10 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx xxx..   xxx..
King, Duma Key 01.01.08 / 16 30 -4 xxx.. xxx.. 137 -13 xx xx   xxx
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 10           14 +1   64 +
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 36       22 -1 xxx.. 31 -3   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 7           62 +24    
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 36       18 -1 xxx.. 27 +6   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 13           17 +3 47 -7 x
Patterson, The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel 03.18.08 / 5       14 -11   xx    
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK) 03.25.08 / 4             6 -4  
Reynolds, House of Suns (UK) 04.15.08 / 1             43 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 63     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 54 -9    
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book Four: Queste 04.15.08 / 1           74 ++    
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 42 5 +2     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect 04.15.08 / 1 4 ++ 7 ++ 5 ++ 66 ++ 7 ++      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.20
WP
04.13
SFC
04.13
USAT
04.06
PW
04.14
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(04.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Abercrombie, The Last Argument of Kings (UK) 03.18.08 / 5             29 +8  
Andrews, Magic Burns 04.15.08 / 1 32 ++              
Chance, Embrace the Night 04.08.08 / 2 6 ++     67 +52 7 ++   x  
Gemmell/Gemmell, Troy: The Fall of Kings (UK) [tpb] 08.28.07 / 7             74 +  
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 2 31 -9     x        
Hill, Heart-Shaped Box 04.08.08 / 2 34 -3              
Matheson, I Am Legend 11.13.07 / 20 xxx.. xxx..   141 -57 xxx.. xxx..    
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 54 12 = xxx.. xxx 83 -12 xxx.. x 60 +19 63 -43
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 36       8 +2 xxx.. 47 -5 xxx xxx..
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 29             88 -13 xxx..
Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind 04.15.08 / 1 24 ++     143 ++        
Smith, The Ruins 08.14.07 / 8 12 +11 xxx..   57 +65 13 +      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.20
WP
04.13
SFC
04.13
USAT
04.06
PW
04.14
(ch 01.14)
Amz
(04.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.15)
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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