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NEWS : Bestsellers
Bestsellers 30 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Tobias S. Buckell
Bestsellers 23 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Stephen King
Charlaine Harris
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 6 January 2009
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San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly have no updated lists this week.
With no debuts (with one exception, noted below) in the past month, SF/F/H presence on bestseller lists remains with Stephenie Meyer, whose Twilight Saga novels occupy three of the top four spots on Amazon.com today, and four of the top five spots on this week's USA Today list.
And with Charlaine Harris, whose seven Sookie Stackhouse novels in paperback still rank on the extended New York Times mass market paperback list this week, while the Ace Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set, debuting this week, takes their place on the US and Canada Amazon lists this week.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.11 |
WP
01.04 |
SFC
12.28 |
USAT
12.28 |
PW
12.22
(ch 12.08) |
Amz
(01.06) |
UK:
Amz UK
(01.06) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.06) |
| 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 / 8 |
25 +3 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Collins, The Hunger Games |
10.07.08 / 14 |
7 +1 |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
10.23.07 / 51 |
xxx.. |
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82 +4 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Funke, Inkdeath |
09.23.08 / 16 |
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108 -11 |
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xx |
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xxx |
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Gaiman, The Graveyard Book |
09.30.08 / 15 |
9 -2 |
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xxx.. |
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x |
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xx |
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Harris, From Dead to Worse |
05.06.08 / 20 |
32 +3 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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51 -3 |
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x |
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King, Just After Sunset |
11.11.08 / 9 |
6 = |
10 + |
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19 +6 |
[ 6 ] |
x |
xxx.. |
x |
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Maguire, A Lion Among Men |
10.28.08 / 11 |
18 +4 |
xxx.. |
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96 +20 |
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x |
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Meyer, Breaking Dawn |
02.12.08 / 48 |
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[ 9 ] |
5 = |
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1 +1 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, Eclipse |
08.14.07 / 74 |
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[ 4 ] |
3 +1 |
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2 -1 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, The Host |
02.12.08 / 45 |
5 = |
xxx.. |
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21 +1 |
[ 5 ] |
29 -13 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Meyer, New Moon |
08.14.07 / 73 |
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xxx.. |
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21 -11 |
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xxx.. |
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Meyer, Twilight |
08.14.07 / 38 |
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35 -16 |
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xxx.. |
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Paolini, Brisingr |
01.22.08 / 50 |
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24 = |
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86 -31 |
89 -10 |
x |
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Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
02.06.07 / 100 |
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130 +6 |
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x |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
08.05.08 / 22 |
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[ 6 ] |
4 -2 |
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14 -6 |
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Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) |
08.05.08 / 22 |
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9 -4 |
8 -5 |
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Stephenson, Anathem |
07.22.08 / 12 |
34 + |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.11 |
WP
01.04 |
SFC
12.28 |
USAT
12.28 |
PW
12.22
(ch 12.08) |
Amz
(01.06) |
UK:
Amz UK
(01.06) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.06) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] |
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Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol [tpb] |
12.09.08 / 5 |
13 -4 |
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88 +16 |
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Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 18 |
5 +1 |
10 + |
[ 2 ] |
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49 -13 |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, All Together Dead |
04.08.08 / 16 |
22 +1 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Club Dead |
06.01.03 / 19 |
14 +1 |
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xxx |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Dead as a Doornail |
09.30.08 / 14 |
17 +4 |
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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 / 15 |
15 +3 |
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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 / 17 |
4 +1 |
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50 +5 |
[ 7 ] |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Definitely Dead |
09.30.08 / 12 |
18 +16 |
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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 / 16 |
11 = |
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114 +30 |
[ 13 ] |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set |
01.06.09 / 1 |
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26 ++ |
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19 ++ |
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King, Duma Key |
11.04.08 / 10 |
8 +1 |
xxx.. |
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56 +12 |
[ 12 ] |
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Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] |
10.10.06 / 22 |
33 + |
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xxx.. |
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Maguire, Wicked [tpb] |
06.15.03 / 210 |
23 +4 |
xxx.. |
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77 +47 |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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McCarthy, The Road |
12.02.08 / 6 |
12 = |
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32 +17 |
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McCarthy, The Road [tpb] |
04.10.07 / 92 |
15 +6 |
xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
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xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Meyer, New Moon [tpb] |
06.17.08 / 30 |
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[ 8 ] |
2 +1 |
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4 -1 |
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Meyer, Twilight [tpb] |
08.14.07 / 74 |
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[ 9 ] |
1 = |
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7 -2 |
xxx.. |
xxx.. |
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Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] |
07.22.08 / 25 |
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xxx.. |
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45 +17 |
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43 -13 |
44 -18 |
29 +7 |
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Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] |
09.09.08 / 13 |
8 + |
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Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] |
10.28.08 / 11 |
31 = |
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xxx.. |
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list |
NYT
01.11 |
WP
01.04 |
SFC
12.28 |
USAT
12.28 |
PW
12.22
(ch 12.08) |
Amz
(01.06) |
UK:
Amz UK
(01.06) |
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.06) |
| 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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