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Neil Gaiman
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Charlaine Harris
Neal Stephenson
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 21 October 2008

R.A. Salvatore's latest Forgotten Realms novel, The Pirate King: Transitions, Book Two (Wizards of the Coast), debuts impressively in the top 10 fiction hardcovers at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly, as high as #3 in NYT, and ranks #29 on USA Today's combined list.

Other original titles debuting this week are Foundation by Mercedes Lackey (DAW), #20 on NYT's fiction hardcover list, and Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance (Roc), ranking #26 on NYT's mass market list and #117 on USA Today's list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.26
WP
10.19
SFC
10.19
USAT
10.12
PW
10.20
Amz
(10.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.21)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 3 7 -1              
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 40 xxx..   xxx.. 84 -1   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 5       44 -11   57 -15   51 +22
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 4 1 =   8 ++ 118 -37   44 -7   45 +15
Hamilton, The Temporal Void (UK) 09.30.08 / 4             65 +1  
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 9 21 +7 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 81 -30    
Herbert/Anderson, Paul of Dune 09.23.08 / 5 25 -7 xxx   xx xxx     xxx..
Lackey, Foundation 10.21.08 / 1 20 ++              
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 37     xxx 7 =   2 +1   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 63     7 + 6 = xxx.. 8 =   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 34 9 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 26 +13 8 -1 73 -14 xxx.. xx
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 62     6 ++ xxx.. xxx.. x   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 27           77 -13   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 39     2 +4 2 -1   11 -6 9 = 2 +3
Pratchett, Nation 09.30.08 / 3 8 -3         xxx    
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 11             32 -6 x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 89     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 80 +6    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 11           17 -5    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 11             6 +4 3 +5
Salvatore, The Pirate King: Transitions, Book Two 10.21.08 / 1 3 ++ 8 ++   29 ++ 4 ++     53 ++
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 69 10 -4     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Stephenson, Anathem 07.22.08 / 9 26 -13 xxx x xx xx x xx 56 +
Traviss, Star Wars: Republic Commando: Order 66 09.30.08 / 4 28 -6     xx xxx      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.26
WP
10.19
SFC
10.19
USAT
10.12
PW
10.20
Amz
(10.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.21)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armstrong, Personal Demon 10.21.08 / 1       143 ++        
Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road [tpb] 10.21.08 / 1     5 ++          
Chance, Midnight's Daughter 10.21.08 / 1 26 ++     117 ++        
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 7 5 -2 xx 1 =   8 -3 74 -1    
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 32 xxx..     99 ++ xxx..      
Goodkind, Confessor 10.14.08 / 2 20 -3     96 -7       x
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 6 xx     xxx..   69 -21    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 8 16 +3     103 -2 xx 32 -13   84 -61
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 4 23 +6     148 ++   76 -36   64 -42
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 4 21 +1     129 -2   55 -26   x
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 6 5 +6     42 +3 15 -4 29 -7   87 ++
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 4 xx         62 -16   xx
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 5 12 +2     80 +4 x 24 -8   58 -30
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 21 xx     67 +15 xxx..      
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 81 14 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 131 -9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 19     xx 4 =   9 -3    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 63     x 3 = xxx.. 4 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 14   xxx.. xxx.. 70 +18   104 -46 xx 66 -29
Pratchett, Making Money 10.21.08 / 1 33 ++              
Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] 09.09.08 / 7 6 -1              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.26
WP
10.19
SFC
10.19
USAT
10.12
PW
10.20
Amz
(10.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.21)
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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