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Bestsellers 8 January
Patricia Briggs
Drew Karpyshyn
Dan Simmons
Timothy Zahn
Anne & Todd McCaffrey
Iain M. Banks

Bestsellers 1 January
Jim Butcher
McCaffrey & McCaffrey

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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 15 January 2008

Remarkable for a second week is Patricia Briggs' Iron Kised (Ace), which debuts this week at #1 on the New York Times fiction mass-market paperback list, climbs from #7 to #1 on the same Publishers Weekly list, and jumps from #79 to #14 on USA Today's combined list.

Selling again on Amazon, where it ranks #8 today, is Brian Selznick's graphic novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which just won the Caldecott Medal for distinguished American picture book for children.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.20
WP
01.13
SFC
01.13
USAT
01.06
PW
01.14
(ch 12.10)
Amz
(01.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Banks, Matter (UK) 01.08.08 / 2             72 +10  
Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road 10.30.07 / 12 xxx..   5 -4 xxx..   xxx..    
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 8 29 +6   10 +     xx    
Goodkind, Confessor 10.30.07 / 12 17 = xxx.. xxx.. 112 -25 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two 01.08.08 / 2 12 +2     72 -6 11 -1      
King, Duma Key 01.01.08 / 3           46 +40   62 +33
McCaffrey/McCaffrey, Dragon Harper 01.08.08 / 2 27 -4              
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 23       21 +15 xxx.. 42 +10   xxx..
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 23       16 +17 xxx.. 43 +2   xxx..
Pratchett, Making Money (UK) 05.15.07 / 32             108 -18 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 50     xxx.. 81 -38 xxx.. 23 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 12.26.06 / 55             85 -25  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 50               45 -11
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 29 xx       xxx.. 8 +    
Westerfeld, Extras 10.16.07 / 14 3 -1     140 -25        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.20
WP
01.13
SFC
01.13
USAT
01.06
PW
01.14
(ch 12.10)
Amz
(01.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Briggs, Iron Kissed 01.08.08 / 2 1 ++     14 +79 1 +7 101 -37    
Crichton, Next 11.27.07 / 8 8 -5 7 =   59 -7 9 -4      
Koontz, Brother Odd 11.13.07 / 10 34 -13 xxx..   x x      
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 13 x     64 -16 xxx..      
Matheson, I Am Legend 11.13.07 / 10 3 -1 10 =   5 +6 3 -1 xx    
Matheson, I Am Legend [tpb] 11.06.07 / 10 6 =     xxx.. 11 -1 xxx 24 -12 xx
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 41 7 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 57 = xxx.. 38 +3 43 + 20 +7
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 23       17 +2 xxx.. xxx   xxx
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 42 8 -2     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [tpb] 12.25.07 / 4       43 +10        
Pullman, The Golden Compass 07.31.07 / 25     xx 18 -5       xxx
Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) 08.02.04 / 16             13 -7 12 -6
Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy 11.17.02 / 19       34 -7   28 -10    
Pullman, The Subtle Knife [tpb] 12.11.07 / 6       33 +12        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 78     xxx.. 110 -22 xxx.. xxx..    
Simmons, The Terror [tpb] 01.08.08 / 2 35 -6              
Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest [tpb] 10.30.07 / 12 30 -10     137 -6 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Westerfeld, Specials [tpb] 10.02.07 / 9 10 -5              
Zahn, Star Wars: Allegiance 01.08.08 / 2 22 +3              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.20
WP
01.13
SFC
01.13
USAT
01.06
PW
01.14
(ch 12.10)
Amz
(01.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.15)
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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