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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 9 December 2008
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, published last week, ranks solidly at #1 on all three Amazon lists today, as it did a week ago. Expect it to debut on print lists -- those that don't exclude it for being a young adult book -- next week.
Meanwhile, Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows bounces back onto Amazon.com's list, barely, at #99 today, after dropping out of the top 100 last week to #104.
Two significant debuts this week are by Jim Butcher -- whose Princeps' Fury (Ace), fifth novel in his Codex Alera series, ranks on three print lists this week, as high as #13 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly, while the mass market paperback reprint of the fourth book in the series, Captain's Fury, debuts at #22 on NYT's mass market list -- and Tobias S. Buckell, author of the latest gaming tie-in novel Halo: The Cole Protocol (Tor), which debuts on three print lists this week, as high as #4 on the New York Times trade paperback list.
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Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT 12.14 |
WP 12.07 |
SFC 12.07 |
USAT 11.30 |
PW 12.08 |
Amz (12.09) |
UK: Amz UK (12.09) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.09) |
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | |
30x5 |
10x4 |
10x3 |
150 |
15x5 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
Hardcovers |
Butcher, Princeps' Fury |
12.09.08 / 1 |
13 ++ |
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56 ++ |
13 ++ |
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Card, Ender in Exile |
11.18.08 / 4 |
21 -3 |
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148 -46 |
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xx |
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Collins, The Hunger Games |
10.07.08 / 10 |
7 -1 |
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xxx.. |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
10.23.07 / 47 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
108 -3 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Funke, Inkdeath |
09.23.08 / 12 |
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80 +14 |
xxx.. |
51 -8 |
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37 +19 |
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book |
09.30.08 / 11 |
5 = |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
76 +3 |
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125 -26 |
Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness |
10.28.08 / 7 |
25 -6 |
xxx |
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x |
x |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Harris, From Dead to Worse |
05.06.08 / 16 |
30 +1 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
x |
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King, Just After Sunset |
11.11.08 / 5 |
4 +2 |
6 -1 |
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15 -4 |
4 -1 |
34 -3 |
xx |
34 +1 |
Maguire, A Lion Among Men |
10.28.08 / 7 |
26 -2 |
xxx.. |
8 + |
xx |
xxx |
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Meyer, Breaking Dawn |
02.12.08 / 44 |
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2 +8 |
4 = |
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3 -1 |
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xxx.. |
Meyer, Eclipse |
08.14.07 / 70 |
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4 +5 |
3 = |
xxx.. |
2 +1 |
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xxx.. |
Meyer, The Host |
02.12.08 / 41 |
10 +7 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
29 +5 |
10 + |
31 -1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
Meyer, New Moon |
08.14.07 / 69 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
10 +1 |
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xxx.. |
Meyer, Twilight |
08.14.07 / 34 |
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15 +6 |
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xxx.. |
Paolini, Brisingr |
01.22.08 / 46 |
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xxx |
21 -2 |
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19 -3 |
60 -3 |
58 -17 |
Pratchett, Nation (UK) |
08.05.08 / 18 |
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41 = |
xxx.. |
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
02.06.07 / 96 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
99 +5 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
08.05.08 / 18 |
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1 = |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) |
08.05.08 / 18 |
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1 = |
1 = |
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
05.08.07 / 75 |
8 -1 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT 12.14 |
WP 12.07 |
SFC 12.07 |
USAT 11.30 |
PW 12.08 |
Amz (12.09) |
UK: Amz UK (12.09) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.09) |
Paperbacks [tpb=trade] |
Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol [tpb] |
12.09.08 / 1 |
4 ++ |
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50 ++ |
6 ++ |
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Butcher, Captain's Fury |
12.09.08 / 1 |
22 ++ |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 14 |
5 +1 |
x |
3 = |
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15 -2 |
68 -5 |
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xxx.. |
Harris, All Together Dead |
04.08.08 / 13 |
34 -16 |
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146 = |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Club Dead |
06.01.03 / 15 |
21 -8 |
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111 -4 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Harris, Dead as a Doornail |
09.30.08 / 11 |
32 -9 |
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149 -14 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Harris, Dead to the World |
09.30.08 / 11 |
30 -16 |
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122 -12 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Harris, Dead Until Dark |
09.16.08 / 13 |
7 -5 |
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41 +1 |
6 -3 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas |
09.23.08 / 12 |
14 +2 |
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75 +1 |
13 -4 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails |
12.09.08 / 1 |
18 ++ |
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Kenyon, One Silent Night |
11.04.08 / 6 |
29 -19 |
xxx |
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92 -39 |
x |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
King, Duma Key |
11.04.08 / 6 |
12 -6 |
xxx.. |
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64 -23 |
11 -3 |
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Maguire, Wicked [tpb] |
06.15.03 / 208 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
145 + |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
McCarthy, The Road |
12.02.08 / 2 |
20 = |
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52 -9 |
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McCarthy, The Road [tpb] |
04.10.07 / 88 |
14 -4 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xx |
xx |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] |
06.17.08 / 26 |
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5 +3 |
2 = |
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4 = |
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Meyer, Twilight [tpb] |
08.14.07 / 70 |
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2 +3 |
1 = |
xxx.. |
5 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] |
07.22.08 / 21 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
84 -6 |
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43 +7 |
92 + |
43 +33 |
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] |
05.24.04 / 131 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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72 + |
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] |
10.28.08 / 7 |
22 = |
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xxx.. |
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Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT 12.14 |
WP 12.07 |
SFC 12.07 |
USAT 11.30 |
PW 12.08 |
Amz (12.09) |
UK: Amz UK (12.09) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.09) |
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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