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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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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 12 August 2008

Two titles that debuted on Amazon lists in the past couple weeks debut on print list bestseller pages this week -- beginning with Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, ranking #1 at San Francisco Chronicle and USA Today this week. (Note that New York Times doesn't rank the title separately, it being part of series "The Twilight Saga", which does rank #1 on this week's Children's Books Series Books list.)

Similarly, Patricia Briggs' Cry Wolf (Ace) debuts on four print lists this week, as high as #3 on Publishers Weekly's mass market paperback list.

There are also two books debuting on any of the compiled lists this week. Karen Traviss' Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Del Rey) is on three lists, as high as #12 on PW's fiction hardcover list. And Jocelynn Drake's Nightwalker (Eos) is on two lists, as high as #32 on New York Times's paperback mass-market fiction list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.17
WP
08.10
SFC
08.10
USAT
08.03
PW
08.11
Amz
(08.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.12)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Armstrong, The Summoning 07.29.08 / 2 5 +             63 +
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox 07.01.08 / 7     x 14 -6   57 -14 7 -2 32 +
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 30 29 +3   4 +2 xxx..   xx   xxx..
Doctorow, Little Brother 05.20.08 / 9 xxx..       xxx     86 ++
Erikson, Toll the Hounds (UK) 06.24.08 / 5             xxx.. 18 +
Kenyon, Acheron 07.29.08 / 3           45 -21 35 ++ 26 -3
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 27     1 ++ 1 ++   1 =   1 +1
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 53     2 ++ 5 -1 xxx 6 -1   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 24 3 = 7 +2 7 + 17 -2 2 = 52 -15 xxx.. 25 -11
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 53       xxx.. xxx 15 -4   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 18           25 -6   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 30           13 +2 16 +1 16 -4
Patterson/Ledwidge, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X 08.05.08 / 2 x 3 -1   13 -6       69 ++
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 2             56 +3  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 80     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 71 -7    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 72               127 -59
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 2           8 -5    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 2             2 -1 3 -2
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence 05.27.08 / 12 34 -7   x xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Scott, The Magician 07.08.08 / 6 8 -1     xxx..        
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 59 6 -1     xxx.. xxx xxx..    
Traviss, Star Wars: The Clone Wars 08.12.08 / 1 13 ++     48 ++ 12 ++      
Weber, By Schism Rent Asunder 07.22.08 / 3 33 -15     x       xxx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.17
WP
08.10
SFC
08.10
USAT
08.03
PW
08.11
Amz
(08.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 88       144 -32   xxx..   xxx..
Briggs, Cry Wolf 07.29.08 / 3 4 ++ 8 ++   16 ++ 3 ++ 113 -19   xx
Brooks, The Elves of Cintra 08.12.08 / 1 27 ++              
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb] 05.13.08 / 14 24 -5 xxx.. 7 -2 xx xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Drake, Nightwalker 08.12.08 / 1 32 ++     117 ++        
Grimwood, Replay [tpb] 07.15.08 / 5 35 -5         xx    
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 71 7 +1 xxx.. x 73 +2 xxx.. 68 +4 xx xxx
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 9       4 -2   10 +3    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 53     2 ++ 3 -2 xxx 5 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 4   6 +1   15 +14   9 +1 6 +2 7 -2
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 143             66 +5  
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6: Superior Saturday (UK) [tpb] 06.10.08 / 10             43 +1  
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 92       133 -17   xxx..   xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 07.22.08 / 4             78 -18  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.17
WP
08.10
SFC
08.10
USAT
08.03
PW
08.11
Amz
(08.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.12)
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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