Locus Online: Bestsellers on General Lists: 15 July 2008

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The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

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+/- change since last week

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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 July 2008

With less than three weeks to its August 2nd on-sale date, Stephenie Meyers' Breaking Dawn (Little, Brown) ranks #1 today on Amazon -- already its 23rd week ranking on lists with pre-publication sales. Debuts this week include paperback reprints of Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Sandworms of Dune (Tor) and R.A. Salvatore's The Orc King (Wizards of the Coast), ranking #32 and #35 on the New York Times mass market fiction list. Also debuting, curiously, is the 1998 trade paperback reprint of Ken Grimwood's World Fantasy Award-winning Replay (Harper), ranking #30 today on Amazon.com. Summer reading?
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.20	WP 07.13	SFC 07.13	USAT 07.06	PW 07.14	Amz (07.15)	UK: Amz UK (07.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	30x3	150	15x5	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox	07.01.08 / 3						17 +32	30 +39	22 +
Davidson, Undead and Unworthy	07.08.08 / 2	27 -5			x
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	10.23.07 / 26	31 -1		3 =	xxx		56 +15		xxx..
Hamilton, Blood Noir	05.20.08 / 9	28 -3	xxx..		xx	xx	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Koontz, Odd Hours	05.06.08 / 11	20 -6	xxx..		105 -38	x	xxx		xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn	02.12.08 / 23						1 +1		2 +3
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 49				6 =	xxx..	9 =		xxx..
Meyer, The Host	02.12.08 / 20	6 -1	10 +	xxx..	24 -6	5 -1	32 +8	xxx..	7 +11
Meyer, New Moon	08.14.07 / 49				xxx..	xxx..	11 +4		xxx..
Meyer, Twilight	08.14.07 / 14						25 +40		xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr	01.22.08 / 26						19 =	45 -6	28 +24
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	02.06.07 / 76			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	59 -3
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence	05.27.08 / 8	25 +3		1 =	xxx..		xx		xxx..
Scott, The Magician	07.08.08 / 2	5 -1			x
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret	05.08.07 / 55	7 =			xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.20	WP 07.13	SFC 07.13	USAT 07.06	PW 07.14	Amz (07.15)	UK: Amz UK (07.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 84				124 -29		xxx		xxx..
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb]	05.13.08 / 10	22 -2	xxx..	1 +2	xxx	xxx..	xxx..		xx
Grimwood, Replay [tpb]	07.15.08 / 1						30 ++
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune	07.15.08 / 1	32 ++
Liu, The Iron Hunt	07.08.08 / 2	x			135 -33
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 67	8 =	xxx..	xxx..	85 -5	xxx..	45 +7	78 -6	71 +
Meyer, New Moon [tpb]	06.17.08 / 5				2 +1		20 +5
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 49				1 +1	xxx..	3 +2	xxx..	xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb]	01.04.05 / 140							99 -53
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6: Superior Saturday (UK) [tpb]	06.10.08 / 6							20 -8
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four	07.20.03 / 88				134 -29		xxx..		xxx..
Pratchett, Making Money	06.17.08 / 5							34 -3
Reaves, Star Wars: Jedi Twilight: Coruscant Nights I	07.08.08 / 2	27 -6			106 -16	x
Salvatore, The Orc King: Transitions, Book One	07.15.08 / 1	35 ++
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 07.20	WP 07.13	SFC 07.13	USAT 07.06	PW 07.14	Amz (07.15)	UK: Amz UK (07.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (07.15)
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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