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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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posted 14 October 2008

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins) debuts at #1 on New York Times children's chapter book list this week. It ranks #81 on USA Today's combined list, and is holding at #37 on Amazon.com.

Terry Pratchett's Nation (also HarperCollins) debuts at #5 on the NYT children's chapter book list, though it's already slipped off this week's Amazon.com rankings, after placing for one week. The UK edition still ranks on Amazon UK and Canada, after 10 weeks.

The mass market paperback edition of Terry Goodkind's Confessor (Tor) debuts on three lists this week, as high as #17 on NYT's mass market fiction list.

Charlaine Harris' seven Sookie Stackhouse novels all rank again this week on Amazon.com, though two of them have dropped off New York Times' mass market paperback list. Four of them rank on Amazon Canada for the first time this week.

Christopher Paolini's Brisingr still ranks impressively at #1 on the combined USA Today list, and among the top 10 on lists from the three Amazons and San Francisco Chronicle.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.19
WP
10.12
SFC
10.12
USAT
10.05
PW
10.13
Amz
(10.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.14)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Brooks, The Gypsy Morph 08.26.08 / 8 25 =     xx xxx xxx.. xxx..  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox 07.01.08 / 16     xxx.. x   xx 99 -19 xxx..
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 2 6 -2              
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 39 xxx..   xxx.. 83 -31   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 4       33 +8   42 -7   73 -56
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 3 1 ++     81 ++   37 =   60 ++
Hamilton, The Temporal Void (UK) 09.30.08 / 3             66 -40  
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 8 28 +5 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 51 +35    
Herbert/Anderson, Paul of Dune 09.23.08 / 4 18 = xx   x xx     xxx
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 36     xx 7 =   3 +2   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 62     x 6 = xxx.. 8 =   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 33 11 -1 xxx xxx.. 39 -14 7 = 59 +19 xxx.. x
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 61       xxx.. xxx.. 55 =   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 26           64 -8   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 38     6 -4 1 =   5 -4 9 -5 5 -3
Patterson/Ledwidge, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X 08.05.08 / 11 8 = xxx..   xxx.. xxx..     xxx..
Pratchett, Nation 09.30.08 / 2 5 ++         xx    
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 10             26 -7 48 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 88     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 86 -21    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 10           12 +2    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 10             10 -1 8 -5
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 68 6 +1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Stephenson, Anathem 07.22.08 / 8 13 +2 xx 10 -5 x x 143 -67 x x
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Order 66 09.30.08 / 3 22 -2     x xx      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.19
WP
10.12
SFC
10.12
USAT
10.05
PW
10.13
Amz
(10.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.14)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 6 3 = x 1 =   5 + 73 -19    
Goodkind, Confessor 10.14.08 / 1 17 ++     89 ++       100 ++
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 5 x     xxx..   48 +4    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 7 19 -8     101 +9 x 19 +4   23 +
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 3 29 -12         40 +2   22 +
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 3 22 -9     127 +17   29 +7   55 +
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 5 11 -7     45 -11 11 -7 22 +7    
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 3 x         46 +3   x
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 4 14 -6     84 -7 12 -2 16 +3   28 +
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 20 x     82 +9 xxx..      
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 80 12 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 122 -35 xxx xxx xxx.. xxx
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 18     x 4 =   6 =    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 62     6 -3 3 = xxx.. 2 +2 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 13   xxx.. xxx.. 88 -37   58 -30 x 37 -14
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] 03.27.07 / 51 xxx..     142 -39   xxx..   xxx..
Paolini, Eragon 11.14.06 / 29       116 -41        
Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] 09.09.08 / 6 5 =              
Wilson, King of Sword and Sky 10.14.08 / 1 35 ++              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.19
WP
10.12
SFC
10.12
USAT
10.05
PW
10.13
Amz
(10.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.14)
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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