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Bestsellers 23 Sep
Neal Stephenson
Christopher Paolini
Charlaine Harris

Bestsellers 16 Sep
Junot Díaz
S.M. Stirling
Christopher Paolini



2008 Monitor Listings Archive



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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 30 September 2008

As noted last week, paperback editions of Charlaine Harris' seven Sookie Stackhouse novels, beginning with Dead Until Dark (Ace; first published 2001), have ranked prominently on lists since the debut earlier this month of HBO series True Blood, based on the series. This week, Harris achieves a record of some sort by ranking all seven titles on New York Times mass market paperback list in the same week -- ranks ranging from #3, for Dead Until Dark, to #19. All seven titles also rank today on Amazon.com; five of them rank today on Amazon Canada's list.

Meanwhile, Neal Stephenson's Anathem slips a few notches on some lists, but rose a notch to #1 on the San Francisco Chronicle list this week, and still ranks on all eight lists compiled on this chart. Debuts this week include Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Paul of Dune (Tor), at #10 or #11 on lists at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. And a new Star Wars novel by Karen Traviss, Order 66 (Del Rey), is #10 at PW and #12 at NYT.

Christopher Paolini's Brisingr is excluded from some of the print lists, as a YA novel, but ranks impressively at #1 on USA Today's combined list this week, #5 on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction hardcover list, and sits at #2 on all three Amazon lists today.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.05
WP
09.28
SFC
09.28
USAT
09.21
PW
09.29
Amz
(09.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.30)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Barry, The Lace Reader 08.19.08 / 7 34 -5 xxx..   xxx.. xxx xxx..    
Brooks, The Gypsy Morph 08.26.08 / 6 16 -6     118 -27 x xxx.. xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox 07.01.08 / 14     xxx.. 90 +35   88 +5 54 -16 xx
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 37 xxx..   xxx 48 +18   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 2           25 +18   58 -33
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 1           59 ++    
Hamilton, The Temporal Void (UK) 09.30.08 / 1             25 ++  
Herbert/Anderson, Paul of Dune 09.23.08 / 2 11 ++ 10 ++   58 ++ 11 ++     x
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 34     8 = 5 -1   7 -1   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 60     x 6 -1 xxx.. 6 +1   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 31 7 -1 x xxx.. 23 +1 4 = 74 -9 xxx.. 51 -7
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 59       xxx.. xxx.. 50 -4   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 24           66 -8   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 36     5 ++ 1 ++   2 -1 2 -1 2 -1
Patterson/Ledwidge, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X 08.05.08 / 9 6 -1 xxx..   xx xx     xxx..
Pratchett, Nation 09.30.08 / 1           86 ++    
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 8             10 -6 40 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 86     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 90 -4    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 8           14 -9    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 8             6 -4 6 -3
Scott, The Magician 07.08.08 / 10 9 +     xxx..        
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 66 8 =     xxx.. xx xxx..    
Stephenson, Anathem 07.22.08 / 6 8 -7 7 -5 1 +1 66 -40 9 -6 64 = 100 + 32 -2
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Order 66 09.30.08 / 1 12 ++     56 ++ 10 ++      
Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 09.02.08 / 5 17 -3 xxx..   105 -3 x     xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.05
WP
09.28
SFC
09.28
USAT
09.21
PW
09.29
Amz
(09.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.30)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Briggs, Cry Wolf 07.29.08 / 10 31 + xxx..   x xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 4 2 = 7 +1 1 =   8 +2 43 -3    
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 3 18 +     xxx..   67 ++    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 5 14 ++         22 +3   49 ++
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 1 16 ++         53 ++   73 ++
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 1 17 ++         33 ++   94 ++
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 3 3 +5     31 +20 3 +5 26 +8    
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 1 19 ++         57 ++   88 ++
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 2 11 +6       13 ++ 18 -1   72 ++
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 18 29 +     103 + xxx..      
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 78 8 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 77 -4 x x xxx.. x
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 16     xx 3 -1   9 -1    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 60     4 = 2 -1 xxx.. 4 = xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 11   xxx.. xxx.. 39 -2   54 -6 72 +6 42 -27
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 49 xxx..     142 +   xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eragon 11.14.06 / 27       121 +        
Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] 09.09.08 / 4 8 -1              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.05
WP
09.28
SFC
09.28
USAT
09.21
PW
09.29
Amz
(09.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.30)
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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