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NEWS : Bestsellers
Bestsellers 23 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Stephen King
Charlaine Harris
Bestsellers 16 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Tobias S. Buckell
2008 Monitor Listings Archive
KEY
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:
December
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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 30 December 2008
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Washington Post and Publishers Weekly take this holiday week off.
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard slips out of first place at USA Today (but still ranks #2) and slips on other lists as well (but still in the top 10 on all lists that include it at all), after almost four weeks in print.
The sustaining stories are Stephenie Meyer, whose books rank #1 and #2 again this week at Amazon.com, and Charlaine Harris, with all eight of her Sookie Stackhouse novels, seven of them in paperback, still ranking on New York Times lists, three of the paperbacks jumping slightly in rank since last week.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.04 |
WP
12.21 |
SFC
12.28 |
USAT
12.21 |
PW
12.22
(ch 12.08) |
Amz
(12.30) |
UK:
Amz UK
(12.30) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.30) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | |
30x5 |
10x4 |
10x3 |
150 |
15x5 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Hardcovers |
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Card, Ender in Exile |
11.18.08 / 7 |
28 -4 |
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xxx |
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xxx.. |
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Collins, The Hunger Games |
10.07.08 / 13 |
8 +1 |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
10.23.07 / 50 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
86 +14 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Funke, Inkdeath |
09.23.08 / 15 |
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97 -11 |
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x |
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xx |
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Gaiman, The Graveyard Book |
09.30.08 / 14 |
7 = |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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115 -37 |
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x |
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Gaiman/McKean, The Graveyard Book (UK) |
11.04.08 / 7 |
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88 +5 |
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Harris, From Dead to Worse |
05.06.08 / 19 |
35 -8 |
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xxx.. |
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48 + |
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54 ++ |
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King, Just After Sunset |
11.11.08 / 8 |
6 = |
[ 10 ] |
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25 = |
[ 6 ] |
97 -40 |
xxx.. |
63 -12 |
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Maguire, A Lion Among Men |
10.28.08 / 10 |
22 = |
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xxx |
116 + |
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94 ++ |
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Meyer, Breaking Dawn |
02.12.08 / 47 |
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9 = |
5 -1 |
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2 = |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, Eclipse |
08.14.07 / 73 |
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4 +2 |
4 +1 |
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1 = |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, The Host |
02.12.08 / 44 |
5 = |
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xxx.. |
22 +5 |
[ 5 ] |
16 +7 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Meyer, New Moon |
08.14.07 / 72 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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10 +10 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, Twilight |
08.14.07 / 37 |
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19 +8 |
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xxx.. |
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Paolini, Brisingr |
01.22.08 / 49 |
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xxx.. |
24 -8 |
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55 -20 |
79 -5 |
57 +40 |
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Pratchett, Nation (UK) |
08.05.08 / 21 |
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87 -35 |
xxx.. |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
02.06.07 / 99 |
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xxx.. |
136 +9 |
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101 -10 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
08.05.08 / 21 |
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6 -3 |
2 -1 |
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8 -4 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) |
08.05.08 / 21 |
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5 -2 |
3 -2 |
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Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
05.08.07 / 78 |
10 = |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.04 |
WP
12.21 |
SFC
12.28 |
USAT
12.21 |
PW
12.22
(ch 12.08) |
Amz
(12.30) |
UK:
Amz UK
(12.30) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.30) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] |
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Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol [tpb] |
12.09.08 / 4 |
9 -2 |
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104 -19 |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 17 |
6 = |
[ 10 ] |
2 +2 |
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36 +18 |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, All Together Dead |
04.08.08 / 15 |
23 +2 |
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xxx |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Club Dead |
06.01.03 / 18 |
15 = |
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xx |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Dead as a Doornail |
09.30.08 / 13 |
21 = |
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xxx |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Dead to the World |
09.30.08 / 14 |
18 = |
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xxx |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Dead Until Dark |
09.16.08 / 16 |
5 +1 |
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55 = |
[ 7 ] |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Definitely Dead |
09.30.08 / 11 |
34 + |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Living Dead in Dallas |
09.23.08 / 15 |
11 +2 |
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144 -19 |
[ 13 ] |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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King, Duma Key |
11.04.08 / 9 |
9 = |
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68 +5 |
[ 12 ] |
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Maguire, Wicked [tpb] |
06.15.03 / 209 |
27 + |
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xxx.. |
124 + |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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McCarthy, The Road |
12.02.08 / 5 |
12 +15 |
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49 +10 |
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McCarthy, The Road [tpb] |
04.10.07 / 91 |
21 +1 |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Meyer, New Moon [tpb] |
06.17.08 / 29 |
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8 -3 |
3 = |
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3 = |
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Meyer, Twilight [tpb] |
08.14.07 / 73 |
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9 -2 |
1 +1 |
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5 +1 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] |
07.22.08 / 24 |
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xxx.. |
62 +14 |
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30 +13 |
26 +30 |
36 +82 |
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Pullman, His Dark Materials Gift Set (UK) |
08.02.04 / 36 |
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55 + |
xxx.. |
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Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] |
10.28.08 / 10 |
31 -4 |
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xxx.. |
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.04 |
WP
12.21 |
SFC
12.28 |
USAT
12.21 |
PW
12.22
(ch 12.08) |
Amz
(12.30) |
UK:
Amz UK
(12.30) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.30) |
| 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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