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Bestsellers 9 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Jim Butcher
Tobias S. Buckell

Bestsellers 2 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Cormac McCarthy
Charlaine Harris



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 16 December 2008

J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard still ranks solidly at #1 on all three Amazon lists, and debuts this week at #1 on USA Today's list and #3 on San Francisco Chronicle's fiction hardcover list.

No significant debuts this week, but Tobias S. Buckell's Halo: The Cole Protocol still ranks significantly at #4 on NY Times's trade paperback list, #8 on the same list from Publishers Weekly.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.21
WP
12.14
SFC
12.14
USAT
12.07
PW
12.15
(ch 12.08)
Amz
(12.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.16)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Princeps' Fury 12.09.08 / 2 21 -8     x x      
Card, Ender in Exile 11.18.08 / 5 26 -5     x   xxx    
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 11 9 -2       7 +      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 48 xxx..   xxx.. 112 -4   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 13       86 -6 2 + 61 -10   102 -65
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 12 7 -2   xxx.. xxx.. 6 + 56 +20   63 +62
Gaiman/McKean, The Graveyard Book (UK) 11.04.08 / 5             92 +  
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 17 24 +6 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xx    
King, Just After Sunset 11.11.08 / 6 6 -2 6 =   26 -11 5 -1 33 +1 xxx 50 -16
Maguire, A Lion Among Men 10.28.08 / 8 25 +1 xxx.. x xxx xxx..      
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 45     5 -3 5 -1   3 =   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 71     10 -6 4 -1 xxx.. 2 =   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 42 8 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 33 -4 9 +1 25 +6 xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 70     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 32 -22   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 35           42 -27   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 47     xxx.. 21 =   22 -3 68 -8 54 +4
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 19             42 -1 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 97     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 119 -20    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 19     3 ++ 1 ++   1 =    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 19             1 = 1 =
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 76 10 -2     xxx.. 10 + xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.21
WP
12.14
SFC
12.14
USAT
12.07
PW
12.15
(ch 12.08)
Amz
(12.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.16)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol [tpb] 12.09.08 / 2 4 =     67 -17 8 -2      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 15 6 -1 xx 2 +1   x 58 +10   xxx..
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 16 21 =     143 -32 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 12 34 -4     x xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 14 7 =     56 -15 5 +1 xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 13 14 =     100 -25 x xxx..   xxx..
Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails 12.09.08 / 2 20 -2              
King, Duma Key 11.04.08 / 7 13 -1 xxx..   83 -19 15 -4      
McCarthy, The Road 12.02.08 / 3 25 -5     80 -28        
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 89 23 -9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 27     10 -5 3 -1   4 =    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 71     5 -3 2 -1 xxx.. 5 = xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 22   xxx.. xxx.. 98 -14   45 -2 67 +25 36 +7
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb] 05.24.04 / 132 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   84 -12
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] 10.28.08 / 8 31 -9     xxx..        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.21
WP
12.14
SFC
12.14
USAT
12.07
PW
12.15
(ch 12.08)
Amz
(12.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.16)
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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