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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.

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 ++     56 ++ 13 ++      
Card, Ender in Exile 11.18.08 / 4 21 -3     148 -46   xx    
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 10 7 -1       xxx..      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 47 xxx..   xxx.. 108 -3   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 12       80 +14 xxx.. 51 -8   37 +19
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 11 5 =   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 76 +3   125 -26
Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness 10.28.08 / 7 25 -6 xxx   x x xxx..   xxx..
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 16 30 +1 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. x    
King, Just After Sunset 11.11.08 / 5 4 +2 6 -1   15 -4 4 -1 34 -3 xx 34 +1
Maguire, A Lion Among Men 10.28.08 / 7 26 -2 xxx.. 8 + xx xxx      
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 44     2 +8 4 =   3 -1   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 70     4 +5 3 = xxx.. 2 +1   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     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 10 +1   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 34           15 +6   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 46     xxx 21 -2   19 -3 60 -3 58 -17
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 18             41 = xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 96     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 99 +5    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 18           1 =    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 18             1 = 1 =
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 75 8 -1     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
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 ++     50 ++ 6 ++      
Butcher, Captain's Fury 12.09.08 / 1 22 ++              
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 14 5 +1 x 3 =   15 -2 68 -5   xxx..
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 13 34 -16     146 =   xxx..    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 15 21 -8     111 -4 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 11 32 -9     149 -14   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 11 30 -16     122 -12 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 13 7 -5     41 +1 6 -3 xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 12 14 +2     75 +1 13 -4 xxx..   xxx..
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails 12.09.08 / 1 18 ++              
Kenyon, One Silent Night 11.04.08 / 6 29 -19 xxx   92 -39 x xxx..   xxx..
King, Duma Key 11.04.08 / 6 12 -6 xxx..   64 -23 11 -3      
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 208 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 145 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
McCarthy, The Road 12.02.08 / 2 20 =     52 -9        
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     5 +3 2 =   4 =    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 70     2 +3 1 = xxx.. 5 = xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 21   xxx.. xxx.. 84 -6   43 +7 92 + 43 +33
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 131 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   72 +
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] 10.28.08 / 7 22 =     xxx..        
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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