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2009 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 10 February 2009

Print lists catch up this week with Neil Gaiman's Newbery Award win for The Graveyard Book; it jumps to #1 on the New York Times children's chapter book list, and ranks an impressive 5th place on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction (not children's) hardcover list.

Three titles debut on NYT extended lists: Kelley Armstrong's Men of the Otherworld (Bantam), latest in her Women of the Otherworld series, at #19 on the fiction hardcover list; Carrie Vaughn's Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (Grand Central), latest in her Kitty Norville series, #13 on the mass market paperback list; and Michael Reaves' Star Wars: Patterns of Force: Coruscant Nights III (Bantam), #16 on the same list.

And a forthcoming title that caught our eye on Amazon.com's list today: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, due in May from Quirk Books. Check it out.

We've checked several times, but USA Today's website has been inaccessible today. The chart below shows USAT's last week's rankings.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.15
WP
02.08
SFC
02.08
USAT
01.25
PW
02.09
(ch 02.09)
Amz
(02.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.10)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Armstrong, Men of the Otherworld 02.10.09 / 1 19 ++              
Briggs, Bone Crossed 02.03.09 / 2           51 -18    
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 19 3 =       9 +      
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 19       [ 138 ] 7 + xxx..   xx
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 20 1 +4   5 +   1 + 16 -1   95 -51
Harris, Dead and Gone 01.20.09 / 4           50 +5    
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 25 16 -4 xxx..   [ 133 ] 15 -3 101 -19   xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 53     x [ 3 ]   3 =   7 -5
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 79     6 + [ 5 ] xxx.. 4 =   8 -5
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 50 2 = 9 -5 xxx.. [ 17 ] 2 = 31 -2 xxx.. 26 +1
Meyer, The Host (UK) 01.13.09 / 5             82 -14  
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 78     xxx..   xxx.. 52 -1   x
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 43           74 -4   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 55     xxx.. [ 85 ] 11 ++ xxx xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 27     xxx [ 20 ]   67 -32    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 27             28 +10 55 -6
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.15
WP
02.08
SFC
02.08
USAT
01.25
PW
02.09
(ch 02.09)
Amz
(02.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.10)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Austen/Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! [tpb] 02.10.09 / 1           83 ++    
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 23 10 = xxx.. 4 =   xxx.. 60 -15   xxx..
Funke, Inkspell 01.01.08 / 2 xxx..             69 ++
Gaiman, Coraline Movie Tie-in Edition 02.03.09 / 2 4 +3              
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 24 32 -10     [ 99 ] xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 22 23 -13     [ 52 ] x xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 21 26 -6     [ 80 ] xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set 01.06.09 / 6           25 +5   21 +1
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 97 x xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 37 +25 xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn (UK) 01.13.09 / 5             1 +7  
Meyer, Eclipse (UK) 01.13.09 / 5             2 +7  
Meyer, New Moon (UK) 01.13.09 / 5             3 +7 18 -11
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 35     x [ 2 ]   6 =    
Meyer, Twilight (UK) 01.13.09 / 5             6 +6 30 -17
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 79     xxx.. [ 4 ] xxx.. 11 = xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 30   x xxx.. [ 35 ]   22 +4 63 +6 24 +11
Reaves, Star Wars: Patterns of Force: Coruscant Nights III 02.10.09 / 1 16 ++              
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence [tpb] 01.27.09 / 3 27 +2   xx          
Vaughn, Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand 02.10.09 / 1 13 ++              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.15
WP
02.08
SFC
02.08
USAT
01.25
PW
02.09
(ch 02.09)
Amz
(02.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(02.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(02.10)
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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