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Eoin Colfer
Kelley Armstrong
Clarke & Pohl
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Patricia Briggs
Watchmen

Bestsellers 22 Jul
Naomi Novik
David Weber
Neal Stephenson
Watchmen
Cory Doctorow

2008 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 6 August 2008

The announcement of a new book by J.K. Rowling shot The Tales of Beedle the Bard to the top of the various Amazon lists this week, ranking #3 on Amazon.com's list today and #1 on the UK and Canada lists, in either the Standard or Collector's Editions available exclusively from Amazon... From pre-publication sales, obviously; publication date is December 4th.

Just as notable is a new YA novel by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (Little, Brown), ranking #1 on the New York Times Children's chapter book list this week, more impressively #2 on Washington Post's fiction hardcover list and #7 on USA Today's combined list.

And though it's been out a few weeks already, David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder (Tor) debuts this week on NYT's fiction hardcover list, at #18, and at #100 on the combined USA Today list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.10
WP
08.03
SFC
08.03
USAT
07.27
PW
08.04
Amz
(08.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.06)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Clarke/Pohl, The Last Theorem 07.29.08 / 2           190 -119    
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox 07.01.08 / 6     10 ++ 8 -4   43 -14 5 +13 x
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 29 32 -1   6 -3 xxx..   x   xxx..
Kenyon, Acheron 07.29.08 / 2           24 +32   23 +11
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 26           1 =   2 -1
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 52       4 +1 xx 5 +1   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 23 3 +1 9 +1 xxx.. 15 -1 2 +2 37 -15 xxx.. 14 -4
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 52       xxx.. xx 11 -2   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 17           19 +7   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 29           15 -4 17 +11 12 =
Patterson/Ledwidge, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X 08.05.08 / 1 1 ++ 2 ++   7 ++        
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 1             59 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 79     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 64 -6    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (CANADA) 02.06.07 / 71               68 -2
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 1           3 ++    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 1             1 ++ 1 ++
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence 05.27.08 / 11 27 -7   2 = xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Scott, The Magician 07.08.08 / 5 7 -1     xxx..        
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 58 5 =     xxx.. xx xxx..    
Weber, By Schism Rent Asunder 07.22.08 / 2 18 ++     100 ++       xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.10
WP
08.03
SFC
08.03
USAT
07.27
PW
08.04
Amz
(08.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.06)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 87       112 -2   xxx..   xxx..
Briggs, Cry Wolf 07.29.08 / 2           94 -70   x
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb] 05.13.08 / 13 19 = xxx.. 5 +3 x xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Grimwood, Replay [tpb] 07.15.08 / 4 30 -4         x    
Herbert/Anderson, Sandworms of Dune 07.15.08 / 4 24 -16       x      
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 70 8 -1 xxx.. 8 +2 75 -6 xxx.. 72 -17 x xx
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 8       2 +1   13 +2    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 52       1 = xx 4 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 3   7 ++   29 +54   10 -7 8 +36 5 -1
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 142             71 +28  
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6: Superior Saturday (UK) [tpb] 06.10.08 / 9             44 -7  
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 91       116 +2   xxx..   xxx..
Pratchett, Making Money 06.17.08 / 8             93 +4  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 07.22.08 / 3             60 -12  
Salvatore, The Orc King: Transitions, Book One 07.15.08 / 4 16 -6     144 -28 13 -3      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.10
WP
08.03
SFC
08.03
USAT
07.27
PW
08.04
Amz
(08.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.06)
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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