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Bestsellers 30 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Tobias S. Buckell

Bestsellers 23 Dec
J.K. Rowling
Stephen King
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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Locus Bestsellers, compiled from sales at specialty stores:
December
 
 

SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 6 January 2009

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.

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
Card, Ender in Exile 11.18.08 / 8 25 +3     xxx..   xxx..    
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 14 7 +1              
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 51 xxx..     82 +4   xxx..   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 16       108 -11   xx   xxx
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 15 9 -2     xxx..   x   xx
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 20 32 +3 xxx..   xxx..   51 -3   x
King, Just After Sunset 11.11.08 / 9 6 = 10 +   19 +6 [ 6 ] x xxx.. x
Maguire, A Lion Among Men 10.28.08 / 11 18 +4 xxx..   96 +20       x
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 48     [ 9 ] 5 =   1 +1   xxx..
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 74     [ 4 ] 3 +1   2 -1   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 45 5 = xxx..   21 +1 [ 5 ] 29 -13 xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 73       xxx..   21 -11   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 38           35 -16   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 50       24 =   86 -31 89 -10 x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 100       130 +6   x    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 22     [ 6 ] 4 -2   14 -6    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 22             9 -4 8 -5
Stephenson, Anathem 07.22.08 / 12 34 + xxx..   xxx..   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]
Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol [tpb] 12.09.08 / 5 13 -4     88 +16        
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 18 5 +1 10 + [ 2 ]     49 -13   xxx..
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 16 22 +1     xxx..   xxx..    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 19 14 +1     xxx   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 14 17 +4     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 15 15 +3     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 17 4 +1     50 +5 [ 7 ] xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 12 18 +16     xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 16 11 =     114 +30 [ 13 ] xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set 01.06.09 / 1           26 ++   19 ++
King, Duma Key 11.04.08 / 10 8 +1 xxx..   56 +12 [ 12 ]      
Maguire, Son of a Witch [tpb] 10.10.06 / 22 33 +     xxx..        
Maguire, Wicked [tpb] 06.15.03 / 210 23 +4 xxx..   77 +47   xxx..   xxx..
McCarthy, The Road 12.02.08 / 6 12 =     32 +17        
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 92 15 +6 xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 30     [ 8 ] 2 +1   4 -1    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 74     [ 9 ] 1 =   7 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 25   xxx..   45 +17   43 -13 44 -18 29 +7
Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] 09.09.08 / 13 8 +              
Tolkien, The Children of Húrin [tpb] 10.28.08 / 11 31 =     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)
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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