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2009 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:
March
 
 

SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 31 March 2009

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk Books) -- no, this is not an April Fool's joke -- ranks high on Amazon.com (#10) and Amazon Canada (#28) today, though apparently it's not quite in stock yet; publication date is April 8th.

Several other paperbacks debut this week -- the trade edition of Iain M. Banks' Matter (Orbit), ranking #10 this week on the San Francisco Chronicle list; and titles by Timothy Zahn, Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes (Titan Books), and Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows (Orbit), debut on New York Times' mass market list at #27 and #31 respectively.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.05
WP
03.29
SFC
03.29
USAT
03.22
PW
03.30
(ch 03.09)
Amz
(03.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.31)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Briggs, Bone Crossed 02.03.09 / 9 29 -5 xxx..   xxx xx xxx..   xxx..
Butcher, Turn Coat 03.24.09 / 2           23 +67   52 ++
Clare, City of Glass 03.24.09 / 2           52 -13   26 +54
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 26 6 -1       x      
Feist, Rides a Dread Legion (UK) 03.03.09 / 5             91 -18  
Gaiman/Vess, Blueberry Girl 03.24.09 / 2 8 -5              
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 27 2 =   xxx.. 78 +34 x 35 +18   x
Harris, Dead and Gone 01.20.09 / 11           27 +20   x
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 32 21 +1 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harrison, White Witch, Black Curse 02.17.09 / 7 12 = xx   x 13 -2 xxx..   xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 60     7 + 5 +3   4 +4   4 +3
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 86     x 3 +3 xxx.. 3 +4   8 +3
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 57 4 = 6 +2 xxx.. 15 +6 4 = 31 +13 xxx.. 44 -24
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 81     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 45 +   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 47           46 +41   xxx..
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 34     xxx.. 88 +9   xxx..    
Weber, Storm from the Shadows 03.17.09 / 3 26 -6     xx xx      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.05
WP
03.29
SFC
03.29
USAT
03.22
PW
03.30
(ch 03.09)
Amz
(03.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.31)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Austen/Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! [tpb] 02.10.09 / 3           10 +   28 ++
Banks, Matter [tpb] 03.31.09 / 1     10 ++          
Butcher, Small Favor 03.17.09 / 3 13 -1     124 -46 13 +2      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 30 11 +1 xxx.. xx 106 +17 xxx.. 83 +   xxx..
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 57 xxx..     132 +18 xxx..     xxx..
Gaiman, Coraline Movie Tie-in Edition 02.03.09 / 9 6 +1     139 -9 x      
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 28 xxx..     131 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 22 xxx..     137 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 29 24 +5     80 +23 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 17 xxx..     148 +   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, From Dead to Worse 03.31.09 / 1           11 ++   38 ++
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 28 29 +3     141 +3 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set 01.06.09 / 13           26 +9   37 +4
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 104 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 41 +21 xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn (UK) 01.13.09 / 12             4 -2  
Meyer, Eclipse (UK) 01.13.09 / 12             5 -1  
Meyer, New Moon (UK) 01.13.09 / 12             6 -1 11 -5
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 42     x 2 +2   2 +2    
Meyer, Twilight (UK) 01.13.09 / 12             8 +1 xx
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 86     xxx.. 1 +1 xxx.. 6 = xxx.. 13 +
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 37   2 -1 2 -1 10 -5 2 -1 16 -3 14 -7 16 -4
Rand, Atlas Shrugged 01.27.09 / 6       98 +10   28 -8    
Weeks, The Way of Shadows 03.31.09 / 1 31 ++              
Zahn, Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes 03.31.09 / 1 27 ++              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.05
WP
03.29
SFC
03.29
USAT
03.22
PW
03.30
(ch 03.09)
Amz
(03.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.31)
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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