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Bestsellers 23 Sep
Neal Stephenson
Christopher Paolini
Charlaine Harris
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Junot Díaz
S.M. Stirling
Christopher Paolini
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 30 September 2008
As noted last week, paperback editions of Charlaine Harris' seven Sookie Stackhouse novels, beginning with Dead Until Dark (Ace; first published 2001), have ranked prominently on lists since the debut earlier this month of HBO series True Blood, based on the series. This week, Harris achieves a record of some sort by ranking all seven titles on New York Times mass market paperback list in the same week -- ranks ranging from #3, for Dead Until Dark, to #19. All seven titles also rank today on Amazon.com; five of them rank today on Amazon Canada's list.
Meanwhile, Neal Stephenson's Anathem slips a few notches on some lists, but rose a notch to #1 on the San Francisco Chronicle list this week, and still ranks on all eight lists compiled on this chart.
Debuts this week include Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Paul of Dune (Tor), at #10 or #11 on lists at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. And a new Star Wars novel by Karen Traviss, Order 66 (Del Rey), is #10 at PW and #12 at NYT.
Christopher Paolini's Brisingr is excluded from some of the print lists, as a YA novel, but ranks impressively at #1 on USA Today's combined list this week, #5 on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction hardcover list, and sits at #2 on all three Amazon lists today.
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Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT 10.05 |
WP 09.28 |
SFC 09.28 |
USAT 09.21 |
PW 09.29 |
Amz (09.30) |
UK: Amz UK (09.30) |
Canada: Amz.ca (09.30) |
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | |
30x5 |
10x4 |
10x3 |
150 |
15x5 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
Hardcovers |
Barry, The Lace Reader |
08.19.08 / 7 |
34 -5 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx |
xxx.. |
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Brooks, The Gypsy Morph |
08.26.08 / 6 |
16 -6 |
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118 -27 |
x |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox |
07.01.08 / 14 |
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xxx.. |
90 +35 |
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88 +5 |
54 -16 |
xx |
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
10.23.07 / 37 |
xxx.. |
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xxx |
48 +18 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Funke, Inkdeath |
09.23.08 / 2 |
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25 +18 |
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58 -33 |
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book |
09.30.08 / 1 |
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59 ++ |
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Hamilton, The Temporal Void (UK) |
09.30.08 / 1 |
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25 ++ |
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Herbert/Anderson, Paul of Dune |
09.23.08 / 2 |
11 ++ |
10 ++ |
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58 ++ |
11 ++ |
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x |
Meyer, Breaking Dawn |
02.12.08 / 34 |
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8 = |
5 -1 |
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7 -1 |
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xxx.. |
Meyer, Eclipse |
08.14.07 / 60 |
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x |
6 -1 |
xxx.. |
6 +1 |
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xxx.. |
Meyer, The Host |
02.12.08 / 31 |
7 -1 |
x |
xxx.. |
23 +1 |
4 = |
74 -9 |
xxx.. |
51 -7 |
Meyer, New Moon |
08.14.07 / 59 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
50 -4 |
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xxx.. |
Meyer, Twilight |
08.14.07 / 24 |
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66 -8 |
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xxx.. |
Paolini, Brisingr |
01.22.08 / 36 |
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5 ++ |
1 ++ |
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2 -1 |
2 -1 |
2 -1 |
Patterson/Ledwidge, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X |
08.05.08 / 9 |
6 -1 |
xxx.. |
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xx |
xx |
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xxx.. |
Pratchett, Nation |
09.30.08 / 1 |
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86 ++ |
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Pratchett, Nation (UK) |
08.05.08 / 8 |
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10 -6 |
40 ++ |
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
02.06.07 / 86 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
90 -4 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
08.05.08 / 8 |
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14 -9 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) |
08.05.08 / 8 |
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6 -4 |
6 -3 |
Scott, The Magician |
07.08.08 / 10 |
9 + |
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xxx.. |
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Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
05.08.07 / 66 |
8 = |
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xxx.. |
xx |
xxx.. |
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Stephenson, Anathem |
07.22.08 / 6 |
8 -7 |
7 -5 |
1 +1 |
66 -40 |
9 -6 |
64 = |
100 + |
32 -2 |
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Order 66 |
09.30.08 / 1 |
12 ++ |
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56 ++ |
10 ++ |
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Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed |
09.02.08 / 5 |
17 -3 |
xxx.. |
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105 -3 |
x |
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xx |
Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT 10.05 |
WP 09.28 |
SFC 09.28 |
USAT 09.21 |
PW 09.29 |
Amz (09.30) |
UK: Amz UK (09.30) |
Canada: Amz.ca (09.30) |
Paperbacks [tpb=trade] |
Briggs, Cry Wolf |
07.29.08 / 10 |
31 + |
xxx.. |
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x |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 4 |
2 = |
7 +1 |
1 = |
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8 +2 |
43 -3 |
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Harris, All Together Dead |
04.08.08 / 3 |
18 + |
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xxx.. |
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67 ++ |
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Harris, Club Dead |
06.01.03 / 5 |
14 ++ |
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22 +3 |
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49 ++ |
Harris, Dead as a Doornail |
09.30.08 / 1 |
16 ++ |
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53 ++ |
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73 ++ |
Harris, Dead to the World |
09.30.08 / 1 |
17 ++ |
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33 ++ |
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94 ++ |
Harris, Dead Until Dark |
09.16.08 / 3 |
3 +5 |
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31 +20 |
3 +5 |
26 +8 |
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Harris, Definitely Dead |
09.30.08 / 1 |
19 ++ |
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57 ++ |
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88 ++ |
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas |
09.23.08 / 2 |
11 +6 |
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13 ++ |
18 -1 |
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72 ++ |
Maguire, Wicked |
10.23.07 / 18 |
29 + |
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103 + |
xxx.. |
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McCarthy, The Road [tpb] |
04.10.07 / 78 |
8 +2 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
77 -4 |
x |
x |
xxx.. |
x |
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] |
06.17.08 / 16 |
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xx |
3 -1 |
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9 -1 |
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Meyer, Twilight [tpb] |
08.14.07 / 60 |
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4 = |
2 -1 |
xxx.. |
4 = |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] |
07.22.08 / 11 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
39 -2 |
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54 -6 |
72 +6 |
42 -27 |
Paolini, Eldest [tpb] |
03.27.07 / 49 |
xxx.. |
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142 + |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
Paolini, Eragon |
11.14.06 / 27 |
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121 + |
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Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 4 |
8 -1 |
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Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT 10.05 |
WP 09.28 |
SFC 09.28 |
USAT 09.21 |
PW 09.29 |
Amz (09.30) |
UK: Amz UK (09.30) |
Canada: Amz.ca (09.30) |
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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