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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 16 August 2005

Robert Jordan's next Wheel of Time novel, Knife of Dreams (Tor), shows up this week on Amazon's list at #21 with pre-publication sales. The book is due in stores October 11th. Amazon's page (click on cover image) has an exclusive interview with Jordan.

Elsewhere, J.K. Rowling's latest Harry Potter novel still reigns on those lists it's eligible for, and drags earlier books in the series back onto various Amazon lists. Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian is the non-series novel still doing very well on lists from print publications, in its 10th week.

(Bookmark this link, Locus Online Bestsellers, for automatic redirection to the latest week's chart.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.21
WP
08.14
SFC
08.14
USAT
08.07
PW
08.15
(ch 07.11)
Amz
(08.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.16)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.16)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception 04.10.05 / 19       130 = xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Fforde, The Big Over Easy 08.07.05 / 2 21 -2                
Funke, Dragon Rider 08.16.04 / 53 3 -1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Hobb, Shaman's Crossing (UK) 06.26.05 / 7             83 + xx  
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 04.10.05 / 12 xxx..   xxx.. xxx..   xxx..     75 +
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (UK) 02.20.05 / 8             68 +   xxx..
Jordan, Knife of Dreams 08.14.05 / 1           21 ++      
Koontz, Velocity 06.05.05 / 11 32 +3 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..      
Kostova, The Historian 06.12.05 / 10 2 = 3 = 2 +2 22 -3 2 = 13 +     33 +
Kostova, The Historian (UK) 07.03.05 / 6             32 + 6 +  
Martin, A Feast for Crows 02.23.03 / 23           xxx..     46 +
Paolini, Eldest 02.27.05 / 24           3 + 18 +   10 +
Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 04.24.05 / 17 4 -1     xxx.. xxx..        
Pratchett, Thud! (UK) 05.22.05 / 11             25 +    
Pratchett, Where's My Cow? (UK) 07.03.05 / 2             65 +    
Robb, Origin in Death 07.10.05 / 6 14 = 10 +   150 -72 15 -3 xxx..     xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (CANADA) 07.17.05 / 4                 23 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (CANADA) 07.17.05 / 2                 47 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12.20.04 / 35     1 = 1 =   1 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) 12.27.04 / 33             8 + 7 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 34                 2 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02.09.03 / 96 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 48 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (CANADA) 07.13.03 / 4                 11 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (CANADA) 07.17.05 / 4                 34 +
Sage, Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk 04.03.05 / 20 6 +2     xxx.. xxx..        
Twelve Hawks, The Traveler (UK) 07.31.05 / 2             1 +    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.21
WP
08.14
SFC
08.14
USAT
08.07
PW
08.15
(ch 07.11)
Amz
(08.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.16)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.16)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Banks, The Algebraist (UK) 07.03.05 / 6             89 +    
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 42       139 -24   xxx..     xxx..
Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [tpb] 07.17.05 / 5 2 -1     28 -10          
Denning, Star Wars: Dark Nest, Book 1: The Joiner King 08.07.05 / 2 31 -5     45 -6 10 +1        
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.29.05 / 12 9 -5     xxx.. xxx..        
King, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla [tpb] 01.16.05 / 6 xxx..     xxx.. xxx..       89 +
King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah [tpb] 04.17.05 / 5 xxx..     xxx..         88 ++
Koontz/Gorman, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night 07.24.05 / 4 5 -3 9 ++   7 -3 1 = xx      
Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set 12.21.03 / 13 3 =     62 +17   44 +      
Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 06.12.05 / 9 6 +4     100 +25          
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 91 21 +9   7 + 35 +11 9 -5 74 +     xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.13.05 / 17             86 +    
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 65 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 79 +30 xxx.. 49 +     xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.02.05 / 32             11 +    
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 34       134 +         xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 42       131 -9   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon (UK) 01.09.05 / 10             63 ++ 2 +  
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.08.05 / 15 1 +1     48 +6          
Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (UK) 08.14.05 / 1             61 ++    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 37 -15          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK)               xx 6 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 133 xxx..   xxx.. 15 -4          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK) 07.19.04 / 32             xxx 4 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (CANADA) 08.09.04 / 15                 30 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 59 xxx..   x 11 -4 xxx.. xx      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 169 xxx..   xxx.. 41 -9          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone [tpb]   xxx..   xxx.. 18 -5   xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] 10.20.02 / 22       xxx..   26 +      
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb] 02.06.05 / 28 xxx..   3 +2 xxx..          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.21
WP
08.14
SFC
08.14
USAT
08.07
PW
08.15
(ch 07.11)
Amz
(08.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.16)
Australia:
Dymocks
(08.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.16)
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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