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J.K. Rowling

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Michael Chabon
Charlaine Harris
Kelley Armstrong
Cormac McCarthy
J.K. Rowling

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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 29 May 2007

The latest alternate-history novel by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th (St. Martin's), debuts on four print lists this week, as high as #7 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list.

Other debuts this week include the third of James Patterson's 'Maximum Ride' young-adult novels, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Little, Brown), #29 today on Amazon, and Karen Traviss' latest Star Wars novel, Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice (Del Rey), #52 today on Amazon.

Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union still ranks high on fiction hardcover lists, as does Cormac McCarthy's The Road in trade paperback.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to be published July 21st, remains #1 on the three Amazon lists this week.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.03
WP
05.27
SFC
05.27
USAT
05.20
PW
05.28
(ch 04.09)
Amz
(05.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.29)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.29)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 10x4 100
Hardcovers
Armstrong, No Humans Involved 05.01.07 / 5 30 -6     xx xx xxx.. xx   85 +
Black, Ironside 05.08.07 / 4 9 -1                
Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union 05.01.07 / 5 4 -1 3 = 1 = 22 -5 5 -2 11 +1     41 -23
Gingrich/Forstchen, Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th 05.29.07 / 1 7 ++ 9 ++   33 ++ 9 ++        
Harris, All Together Dead 05.01.07 / 5 16 -3     116 -49 x xx xxx..   xxx..
Hunter, Warriors: Power of Three: The Sight 05.08.07 / 4 3 -1     146 -23          
Morgan, Black Man (UK) 10.17.06 / 4             52 +7    
Murakami, After Dark 05.08.07 / 3 33 -11   2 +1     xxx     21 ++
Palahniuk, Rant 05.22.07 / 2 8 -1   5 +2 36 -3 7 = x     34 +11
Patterson, Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports 05.29.07 / 1           29 ++      
Pratchett, Making Money (UK) 05.15.07 / 3             68 +3    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 17           1 =      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 23             1 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 17                 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (CANADA) 12.20.04 / 75                 64 +14
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 4 4 -1         x      
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin 03.27.07 / 10 6 -2 6 -2 x 12 +9 6 = 14 +2     6 -1
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin (UK) 03.27.07 / 10             10 = xxx  
Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice 05.29.07 / 1           52 ++      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.03
WP
05.27
SFC
05.27
USAT
05.20
PW
05.28
(ch 04.09)
Amz
(05.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.29)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.29)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
King, Everything's Eventual 01.12.02 / 13 xx     74 -14 xxx..        
L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 05.10.04 / 5       40 +47   xxx..      
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 182 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 102 -11 xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 8 3 = 1 = 4 = 8 -2 2 = 17 +2     5 +4
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 114             24 +7 xxx..  
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 10 1 =     44 +6   xxx..     xxx..
Paolini, Eragon [tpb] 05.10.05 / 106 9 -1   xxx.. xxx..          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 45     xxx.. 61 +29 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) [tpb] 06.27.06 / 13             37 +26 xxx..  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 112 xxx..   xxx.. 91 +33 xxx.. xxx..      
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 04.24.07 / 3 34 ++       xxx..        
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five [tpb] 04.17.07 / 7 xx     90 +13 xxx.. xx     xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.03
WP
05.27
SFC
05.27
USAT
05.20
PW
05.28
(ch 04.09)
Amz
(05.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.29)
Australia:
Dymocks
(05.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.29)
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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