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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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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 28 April 2009

Tamora Pierce's YA novel Beka Cooper: Bloodhound (Random House), second in a trilogy following Terrior (2006), is the notable debut this week, ranking #1 on the New York Times children's chapter book list.

Last week's debut, Jim Butcher's Turn Coat, slips to #3 on the NYT and Publishers Weekly fiction hardcover lists, #5 at Washington Post.

In paperback, Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet: Relentless (Ace), 5th in the series, is selling well enough to rank #68 today at Amazon.com.

But Stephenie Meyer still rules -- her four Twilight Saga books rank 1,2,3,4 at USA Today and on Amazon UK again this week, and place among the top 8 at Amazon.com, with a boxed set, not listed here, ranking on other lists. Her books have been the dominant sf/fantasy presence on bestseller lists for many months now.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.03
WP
04.26
SFC
04.26
USAT
04.19
PW
04.27
(ch 04.13)
Amz
(04.28)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.28)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.28)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Allston, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, Book 1: Outcast 04.07.09 / 4 24 -9 xxx   x        
Butcher, Turn Coat 03.24.09 / 6 3 -2 5 -3   26 -16 3 -2 110 -36 xx xx
Clare, City of Glass 03.24.09 / 6       70 -6 x xxx   57 +
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 30 6 -2       x      
Forstchen, One Second After 04.07.09 / 4 11 +7         59 -18    
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 31 4 -1   xxx.. xxx x 63 +13   xxx..
Harris, Dead and Gone 01.20.09 / 15           7 +13   16 +26
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 64     3 + 4 =   2 +1   9 =
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 90     6 -2 3 = xxx.. 4 =   11 -1
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 61 5 -1 7 -1 xxx.. 18 +2 5 -1 36 +10 xxx.. 18 -1
Pierce, Beka Cooper: Bloodhound 04.14.09 / 2 1 ++         xx    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.03
WP
04.26
SFC
04.26
USAT
04.19
PW
04.27
(ch 04.13)
Amz
(04.28)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.28)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.28)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Austen/Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! [tpb] 02.10.09 / 7 7 +6 7 +3   78 + xx 13 +2 35 +18 20 +
Campbell, The Lost Fleet: Relentless 04.28.09 / 1           68 ++    
Chance, Curse the Dawn 04.21.09 / 2 24 -17     x x      
Clare, City of Ashes [tpb] 04.07.09 / 4       129 +8       93 ++
Clare, City of Bones [tpb] 04.08.08 / 5 xxx..     88 +11 x      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 34 20 +3 xxx.. x xxx xxx.. xxx   xxx..
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 29 xxx..     141 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 33 17 +9     68 +19 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, From Dead to Worse 03.31.09 / 5 4 -1 xx   27 +1 5 -2 30 +6   38 +2
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 30 28 +     121 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set 01.06.09 / 17           28 +6   12 +6
Kenyon, Acheron 04.14.09 / 3 27 -8     66 -19 xx      
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 108 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 44 -10 xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn (UK) 01.13.09 / 16             1 =  
Meyer, Eclipse (UK) 01.13.09 / 16             2 =  
Meyer, New Moon (UK) 01.13.09 / 16             3 = 20 -5
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 46     7 -2 1 =   5 +1    
Meyer, Twilight (UK) 01.13.09 / 16             4 = xxx..
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 90     8 = 2 = xxx.. 8 +3 xxx.. 36 -14
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 41   xx xxx 77 -29 15 -10 100 -31 77 -34 xx
Rand, Atlas Shrugged 01.27.09 / 10       128 +22   42 -3   81 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.03
WP
04.26
SFC
04.26
USAT
04.19
PW
04.27
(ch 04.13)
Amz
(04.28)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.28)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.28)
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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