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Steven Erikson
Jacqueline Carey
William Gibson
Simon R. Green

Bestsellers 17 Jun
Stephenie Meyer
Laurell K. Hamilton
Dean Koontz
Cory Doctorow
Brian Selznick

2008 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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July
 
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posted 1 July 2008

In anticipation of its August 2nd release date, Stephenie Meyers' Breaking Dawn (Little, Brown), fourth in the popular Twilight Saga novels, ranks #1 today on both the US and Canadian Amazon lists. It's already ranked on one Amazon list or another for five months now.

Debuting this week with advance Amazon sales is Eoin Colfer's latest Artemis Fowl novel, The Time Paradox (Hyperion), due July 15th.

And with Summer reading season upon us, perennial paperback editions of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four have ranked on Amazon and USA Today lists for four consecutive weeks now.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.06
WP
06.29
SFC
06.29
USAT
06.22
PW
06.30
Amz
(07.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.01)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox 07.01.08 / 1           46 ++   52 ++
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 24 28 -9   2 = x   54 -10   xxx..
Doctorow, Little Brother 05.20.08 / 6 8 +              
Erikson, Toll the Hounds (UK) 06.24.08 / 2             19 -12  
Hamilton, Blood Noir 05.20.08 / 7 16 -4 xxx   79 -23 11 = xxx xxx xxx
Koontz, Odd Hours 05.06.08 / 9 12 -4 xx   40 -15 10 -4 x   xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 21           1 +1   1 +5
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 47       8 -1 xxx.. 15 +1   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 18 3 = 8 = xxx.. 13 = 3 -1 36 +10 xxx.. 8 +3
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 47       xxx xxx.. 17 +2   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 12           88 -7   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 24           18 +6 49 -19 24 +7
Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North (UK) 03.25.08 / 15             100 +5  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 74     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 56 +32    
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence 05.27.08 / 6 27 -4   1 +6 xx   68 +19   53 +
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 53 5 =     xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.06
WP
06.29
SFC
06.29
USAT
06.22
PW
06.30
Amz
(07.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.01)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 82       70 +31   x   xxx..
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb] 05.13.08 / 8 18 -6 xxx 6 -2 x xxx.. xxx..   41 +
Kostova, The Historian 06.10.08 / 4 35 -1     86 +19        
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 65 14 -3 xxx.. xxx.. 85 +25 xxx.. 39 -9 70 +16 32 -10
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 3       4 +1   29 =    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 47       3 +1 xxx.. 6 +5 xxx.. xxx..
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (UK) [tpb] 01.04.05 / 138             54 -11  
Nix, The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6: Superior Saturday (UK) [tpb] 06.10.08 / 4             6 +11  
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 86       83 +34   xxx..   xxx..
Pratchett, Making Money 06.17.08 / 3             28 -8  
Westerfeld, Uglies [tpb] 01.09.07 / 17 xxx..     87 ++ xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.06
WP
06.29
SFC
06.29
USAT
06.22
PW
06.30
Amz
(07.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.01)
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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