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NEWS : Bestsellers
Bestsellers 28 Oct
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Brandon Sanderson
M.T. Anderson
F. Paul Wilson
Bestsellers 21 Oct
R.A. Salvatore
Mercedes Lackey
Karen Chance
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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Locus Bestsellers, compiled from sales at specialty stores:
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posted 4 November 2008
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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.
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| 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 |
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Armstrong, Living with the Dead |
11.04.08 / 1 |
21 ++ |
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147 ++ |
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Carroll, The Ghost in Love |
11.04.08 / 1 |
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7 ++ |
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Collins, The Hunger Games |
10.07.08 / 5 |
7 +1 |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
10.23.07 / 42 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
90 +1 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Funke, Inkdeath |
09.23.08 / 7 |
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61 -18 |
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57 +6 |
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45 + |
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Gaiman, The Graveyard Book |
09.30.08 / 6 |
4 +2 |
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xx |
xx |
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45 +9 |
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41 +14 |
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Gaiman/McKean, The Graveyard Book (UK) |
11.04.08 / 1 |
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68 ++ |
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Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness |
10.28.08 / 2 |
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24 +54 |
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17 ++ |
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Harris, From Dead to Worse |
05.06.08 / 11 |
28 -5 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
70 +10 |
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Luceno, Star Wars: Millennium Falcon |
11.04.08 / 1 |
14 ++ |
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66 ++ |
13 ++ |
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Maguire, A Lion Among Men |
10.28.08 / 2 |
7 -3 |
8 -3 |
4 = |
28 -12 |
6 -2 |
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Meyer, Breaking Dawn |
02.12.08 / 39 |
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8 + |
6 = |
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4 +2 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, Eclipse |
08.14.07 / 65 |
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xx |
4 = |
xxx.. |
2 +2 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, The Host |
02.12.08 / 36 |
12 -1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
33 -7 |
12 -1 |
55 +14 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Meyer, New Moon |
08.14.07 / 64 |
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xx |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
61 -3 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, Twilight |
08.14.07 / 29 |
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38 +14 |
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xxx.. |
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Paolini, Brisingr |
01.22.08 / 41 |
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5 = |
7 -2 |
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11 +4 |
32 -18 |
4 +6 |
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Pratchett, Nation (UK) |
08.05.08 / 13 |
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42 -10 |
xxx |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
02.06.07 / 91 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
75 +10 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
08.05.08 / 13 |
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7 +6 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) |
08.05.08 / 13 |
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4 +2 |
2 = |
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Salvatore, The Pirate King: Transitions, Book Two |
10.21.08 / 3 |
19 -11 |
xx |
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94 -46 |
x |
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76 + |
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Sanderson, The Hero of Ages |
10.28.08 / 2 |
30 -9 |
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x |
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Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
05.08.07 / 70 |
10 + |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Stephenson, Anathem |
07.22.08 / 11 |
34 -6 |
xxx.. |
xxx |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx |
xxx.. |
82 + |
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Updike, The Widows of Eastwick |
11.04.08 / 1 |
29 ++ |
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| 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] |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 9 |
4 = |
xxx.. |
1 = |
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13 -5 |
49 +11 |
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x |
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DuPrau, The City of Ember [tpb] |
06.28.04 / 34 |
xxx.. |
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143 -67 |
xxx.. |
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Goodkind, Confessor |
10.14.08 / 4 |
25 +1 |
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124 -8 |
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xxx |
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Harris, All Together Dead |
04.08.08 / 8 |
18 +4 |
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110 +17 |
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96 -3 |
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Harris, Club Dead |
06.01.03 / 10 |
10 -1 |
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63 +1 |
12 + |
64 -18 |
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xx |
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Harris, Dead as a Doornail |
09.30.08 / 6 |
14 +2 |
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97 +22 |
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xx |
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xx |
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Harris, Dead to the World |
09.30.08 / 6 |
12 +3 |
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92 +20 |
11 ++ |
88 -15 |
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xxx |
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Harris, Dead Until Dark |
09.16.08 / 8 |
3 -1 |
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30 -5 |
3 -1 |
48 +3 |
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xx |
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Harris, Definitely Dead |
09.30.08 / 6 |
17 +4 |
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107 +29 |
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95 -12 |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Living Dead in Dallas |
09.23.08 / 7 |
7 -3 |
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47 = |
8 -1 |
58 -14 |
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xx |
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Kenyon, One Silent Night |
11.04.08 / 1 |
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17 ++ |
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47 ++ |
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King, Duma Key |
11.04.08 / 1 |
5 ++ |
8 ++ |
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23 ++ |
4 ++ |
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Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] |
10.10.06 / 19 |
xxx.. |
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64 -18 |
xxx.. |
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Maguire, Wicked |
10.23.07 / 23 |
27 -2 |
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56 -18 |
xxx.. |
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Maguire, Wicked [tpb] |
06.15.03 / 206 |
14 +1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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McCarthy, The Road [tpb] |
04.10.07 / 83 |
5 +1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
46 +95 |
10 + |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
35 + |
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Meyer, New Moon [tpb] |
06.17.08 / 21 |
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xxx.. |
2 = |
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3 +5 |
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Meyer, Twilight [tpb] |
08.14.07 / 65 |
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xxx |
1 = |
xxx.. |
5 +2 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] |
07.22.08 / 16 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
72 +9 |
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68 +20 |
xxx.. |
67 -28 |
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Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 9 |
8 = |
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Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] |
10.28.08 / 2 |
6 +21 |
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134 ++ |
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| 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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