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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 11 November 2008

The most notable new release on lists this week is Stephen King's new collection, Just After Sunset (Scribner), ranking on two Amazon lists today, as high as #20 on Amazon.com. Look for it on print lists in a week or two.

Other debuts this week include Keri Arthur's Destiny Kills (Dell Spectra), #15 on New York Times' mass market fiction list; Karen Traviss' Gears of War: Aspho Fields (Ballantine Del Rey), a video game tie-in novel, #21 on the same list; and the paperback reprint of Drew Karpyshyn's Star Wars novel Darth Bane: Rule of two, at #28.

The infrequently updated Publishers Weekly children's list this month puts Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath at #1, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book at #4, with titles by Suzanne Collins and Terry Pratchett also ranking.

Charlaine Harris' rankings slip a bit this week, but all seven of her Sookie Stackhouse novels still rank on the New York Times extended mass market fiction list, and on USA Today's list, this week.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.16
WP
11.09
SFC
11.09
USAT
11.02
PW
11.10
Amz
(11.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.11)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Armstrong, Living with the Dead 11.04.08 / 2 30 -9     x        
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 6 6 +1       6 ++      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 43 xxx..   xxx.. 108 -18   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 8       80 -19 1 ++ 54 +3   54 -9
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 7 4 =   xxx xxx 4 ++ 81 -36   x
Gaiman/McKean, The Graveyard Book (UK) 11.04.08 / 2             124 -56  
Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness 10.28.08 / 3           96 -72   x
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 12 24 +4 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 89 -19    
King, Just After Sunset 11.11.08 / 1           20 ++   88 ++
Luceno, Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 11.04.08 / 2 19 -5     116 -50 15 -2      
Maguire, A Lion Among Men 10.28.08 / 3 10 -3 x x 49 -21 10 -4      
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 40     6 +2 6 =   2 +2   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 66     5 + 4 = xxx.. 3 -1   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 37 12 = xxx.. xxx.. 40 -7 13 -1 55 = xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 65     xxx xxx.. xxx.. 64 -3   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 30           44 -6   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 42     x 11 -4   15 -4 41 -9 27 -23
Pratchett, Nation 09.30.08 / 4 xxx       13 ++ xxx..    
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 14             27 +15 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 92     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 83 -8    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 14           10 -3    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 14             5 -1 4 -2
Salvatore, The Pirate King: Transitions, Book Two 10.21.08 / 4 21 -2 xxx   x xx     x
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 71 x     xxx.. 14 + xxx..    
Updike, The Widows of Eastwick 11.04.08 / 2 23 +6              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.16
WP
11.09
SFC
11.09
USAT
11.02
PW
11.10
Amz
(11.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.11)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Arthur, Destiny Kills 11.11.08 / 1 15 ++     54 ++        
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 10 5 -1 xxx.. 2 -1   11 +2 61 -12   xx
Hamilton, A Lick of Frost 11.11.08 / 1       124 ++        
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 9 24 -6     137 -27   x    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 11 14 -4     88 -25 15 -3 118 -54   xxx
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 7 21 -7     129 -32   xxx   xxx
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 7 17 -5     114 -22 x x   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 9 8 -5     38 -8 5 -2 100 -52   xxx
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 7 22 -5     134 -27   x   xxx..
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 8 11 -4     67 -20 12 -4 101 -43   xxx
Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two 11.11.08 / 1 28 ++     143 ++        
Kenyon, One Silent Night 11.04.08 / 2           143 -126   x
King, Duma Key 11.04.08 / 2 5 = 9 -1   18 +5 6 -2      
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 20 xxx..     98 -34 xxx..      
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 24 x     69 -13 xxx..      
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 207 13 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 84 4 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 47 -1 12 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 40 -5
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 22     xxx.. 2 =   5 -2    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 66     xxx.. 1 = xxx.. 4 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 17   xxx.. xxx.. 104 -32   65 +3 xxx.. 43 +24
Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] 09.09.08 / 10 10 -2              
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] 10.28.08 / 3 9 -3     x        
Traviss, Gears of War: Aspho Fields [tpb] 11.11.08 / 1 21 ++              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.16
WP
11.09
SFC
11.09
USAT
11.02
PW
11.10
Amz
(11.11)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.11)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.11)
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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