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Laurell K. Hamilton
Dean Koontz
Stephenie Meyer

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Dean Koontz
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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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June
 
SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 17 June 2008

Stephenie Meyer titles dominate SF/F/H entries on general lists compiled here, most evident in the ranking of three of her titles -- Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse (the first and second in trade paperback) -- among the top 5 titles on USA Today's combined hardcover/paperback fiction/nonfiction list -- with new title The Host following at #16 (it's #2 on NYT's list).

Other titles mentioned last week are fading, though Laurell K. Hamilton's Blood Noir and Dean Koontz' Odd Hours continue to rank in the top 10 on at least one of the lists this week.

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother slips back down to #9 in its fifth week on the New York Times children's chapter book list.

And speaking of YA titles, Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a graphic novel in part about French film directory Georges Méliès, has spent now almost a year on New York Times' list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.22
WP
06.15
SFC
06.15
USAT
06.08
PW
06.16
Amz
(06.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.17)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Denning, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible 05.13.08 / 6 25 -10 xx   x x xxx..   xxx..
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 22 32 =   2 +     47 -33   xx
Doctorow, Little Brother 05.20.08 / 5 9 -1              
Hamilton, Blood Noir 05.20.08 / 5 5 -4 x   26 -24 4 -3 x x x
Koontz, Odd Hours 05.06.08 / 7 7 -4 2 =   25 -15 11 -8 85 -40   xx
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 19           4 +1   10 -2
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 45       5 -1 xxx.. 23 -5   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 16 2 = 6 -3 xxx.. 16 -7 2 = 37 -8 xxx.. 12 -1
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 45       x xxx.. 21 -2   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 10           97 +3   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 22           24 +13 49 +5 41 +13
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK) 03.25.08 / 13             54 -9  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 72     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 61 +9    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 68               98 +
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence 05.27.08 / 4 18 +1   4 -2 111 +25   81 -14   x
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 51 5 +1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.22
WP
06.15
SFC
06.15
USAT
06.08
PW
06.16
Amz
(06.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.17)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Arthur, The Darkest Kiss 05.13.08 / 6 27 -3     xx xxx..      
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 80       105 +26   98 +   xxx..
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb] 05.13.08 / 6 10 -2 x 4 -3 139 -32 xxx.. xxx   x
Kostova, The Historian 06.10.08 / 2 28 ++     96 +52        
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 63 12 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 133 -11 xxx.. 70 -7 62 -9 29 -8
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 1       2 ++   33 ++    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 45       3 = xxx.. 11 = xxx.. xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 136             50 +32  
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6: Superior Saturday (UK) [tpb] 06.10.08 / 2             52 +28  
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 84       115 +32   xxx..   xxx..
Pettersson, The Touch of Twilight 06.10.08 / 2 33 -6     x        
Pratchett, Making Money 06.17.08 / 1             21 ++  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.22
WP
06.15
SFC
06.15
USAT
06.08
PW
06.16
Amz
(06.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.17)
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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