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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 4 November 2008

A new Star Wars novel by James Luceno, Millennium Falcon (Del Rey), debuts on three hardcover lists this week, as high as #13 at Publishers Weekly and #14 at New York Times.

Other debuts this week: Kelley Armstrong's Living with the Dead (Bantam Spectra), ninth book in her Women of the Otherworld series, is #21 on the extended NYT list, and #147 on the USA Today list. Jonathan Carroll's The Ghost in Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is #7 on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction hardcover list. And John Updike's The Widows of Eastwick (Knopf) is #29 on the extended NYT list.

In paperback, the mass market edition of Stephen King's Duma Key (Pocket) debuts on four lists, as high as #4 at PW and #5 at NYT.

And Charlaine Harris maintains her dominance of the New York Times fiction mass market paperback list, with all seven of her Sookie Stackhouse novels ranking again this week -- in fact, several rose in rank since last week, so that this week all seven are in the top 20 -- while all seven also rank on the combined USA Today list again this week.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.09
WP
11.02
SFC
11.02
USAT
10.26
PW
11.03
Amz
(11.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.04)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Armstrong, Living with the Dead 11.04.08 / 1 21 ++     147 ++        
Carroll, The Ghost in Love 11.04.08 / 1     7 ++          
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 5 7 +1              
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 42 xxx..   xxx.. 90 +1   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 7       61 -18   57 +6   45 +
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 6 4 +2   xx xx   45 +9   41 +14
Gaiman/McKean, The Graveyard Book (UK) 11.04.08 / 1             68 ++  
Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness 10.28.08 / 2           24 +54   17 ++
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 11 28 -5 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. 70 +10    
Luceno, Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 11.04.08 / 1 14 ++     66 ++ 13 ++      
Maguire, A Lion Among Men 10.28.08 / 2 7 -3 8 -3 4 = 28 -12 6 -2      
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 39     8 + 6 =   4 +2   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 65     xx 4 = xxx.. 2 +2   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 36 12 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 33 -7 12 -1 55 +14 xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 64     xx xxx.. xxx.. 61 -3   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 29           38 +14   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 41     5 = 7 -2   11 +4 32 -18 4 +6
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 13             42 -10 xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 91     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 75 +10    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 13           7 +6    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 13             4 +2 2 =
Salvatore, The Pirate King: Transitions, Book Two 10.21.08 / 3 19 -11 xx   94 -46 x     76 +
Sanderson, The Hero of Ages 10.28.08 / 2 30 -9     x        
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 70 10 +     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Stephenson, Anathem 07.22.08 / 11 34 -6 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. 82 +
Updike, The Widows of Eastwick 11.04.08 / 1 29 ++              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.09
WP
11.02
SFC
11.02
USAT
10.26
PW
11.03
Amz
(11.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.04)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 9 4 = xxx.. 1 =   13 -5 49 +11   x
DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] 06.28.04 / 34 xxx..     143 -67 xxx..      
Goodkind, Confessor 10.14.08 / 4 25 +1     124 -8       xxx
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 8 18 +4     110 +17   96 -3    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 10 10 -1     63 +1 12 + 64 -18   xx
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 6 14 +2     97 +22   xx   xx
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 6 12 +3     92 +20 11 ++ 88 -15   xxx
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 8 3 -1     30 -5 3 -1 48 +3   xx
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 6 17 +4     107 +29   95 -12   xxx..
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 7 7 -3     47 = 8 -1 58 -14   xx
Kenyon, One Silent Night 11.04.08 / 1           17 ++   47 ++
King, Duma Key 11.04.08 / 1 5 ++ 8 ++   23 ++ 4 ++      
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 19 xxx..     64 -18 xxx..      
Maguire, Wicked 10.23.07 / 23 27 -2     56 -18 xxx..      
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 206 14 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 83 5 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 46 +95 10 + xxx.. xxx.. 35 +
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 21     xxx.. 2 =   3 +5    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 65     xxx 1 = xxx.. 5 +2 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 16   xxx.. xxx.. 72 +9   68 +20 xxx.. 67 -28
Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] 09.09.08 / 9 8 =              
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] 10.28.08 / 2 6 +21     134 ++        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.09
WP
11.02
SFC
11.02
USAT
10.26
PW
11.03
Amz
(11.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.04)
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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