Locus Online: Weekly Bestsellers 15 September 2009

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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.

Weekly Bestellers

Week ending 15 September 2009

Suzanne Collins Catching Fire (Scholastic), second book in the trilogy that began with the popular The Hunger Games, debuts impressively at #1 on this week's USA Today list (a combined list of all genres and formats), and #1 on the New York Times' children's chapter book list. The earlier book has been on lists for nearly a year; it's on the USA Today list this week at #51, and places 2nd to the new book on the NYT list.
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 09.20	WP 09.13	SFC 09.13	USAT 09.06	PW 09.14 (ch 05.11)	Amz (09.15)	UK: Amz UK (09.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (09.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		30x5	10x4	10x3	150	15x5	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Atwood, The Year of the Flood	09.01.09 / 3						76 ++		6 +2
Banks, Transition (UK)	09.01.09 / 3							103 -35
Brooks, A Princess of Landover	09.01.09 / 3	28 -3			xx	xx
Collins, Catching Fire	08.11.09 / 6	1 ++		10 ++	1 ++		17 -8		31 +35
Collins, The Hunger Games	10.07.08 / 50	2 =			51 ++	xxx..	41 -10
Denning, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss	08.18.09 / 4	25 -11	xx		x	x			xxx..
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book	09.30.08 / 51	7 =		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		58 +
Goodkind, The Law of Nines	09.01.09 / 3	26 -6			xx	xx
Grossman, The Magicians	08.11.09 / 5	21 =	xx	xx	xx	xxx	xxx..
Harris, Dead and Gone	01.20.09 / 35	12 -2	xxx..	x	66 -2	10 -1	39 -11	114 -27	48 +14
Harris, A Touch of Dead	08.04.09 / 7						21 +5		38 +12
Jordan/Sanderson, The Gathering Storm	08.25.09 / 4						51 -16		95 -54
Mead, Blood Promise	09.01.09 / 3				22 -17		x		xx
Meyer, Breaking Dawn	02.12.08 / 84			xxx..	10 -3		49 -12		40 +31
Meyer, Eclipse	08.14.07 / 110			xxx..	3 =	xxx..	34 -2		41 +18
Meyer, The Host	02.12.08 / 81	19 +4	xxx..	xxx..	72 -1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	x
Meyer, The Host (UK)	01.13.09 / 22							55 -30
Moning, Dreamfever	09.01.09 / 3	18 -6	xx		122 -14	x
Pratchett, The Unseen Academicals (UK)	05.05.09 / 15							18 +5
Pynchon, Inherent Vice	08.04.09 / 7	27 -10	xxx	2 +2	xxx	xxx	xx		xxx..
Stirling, The Sword of the Lady	09.08.09 / 2	23 -10			x
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 09.20	WP 09.13	SFC 09.13	USAT 09.06	PW 09.14 (ch 05.11)	Amz (09.15)	UK: Amz UK (09.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (09.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Austen/Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! [tpb]	02.10.09 / 27	9 =	7 -1	xx	81 -13	13 +1	xxx	xxx..	61 -16
Barry, The Lace Reader [tpb]	09.15.09 / 1	30 ++
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	07.20.03 / 109				129 +2		xxx..		xxx..
Briggs, Hunting Ground	08.25.09 / 4	7 -5	x		29 -15	6 -4	xx		xxx
Clare, City of Bones [tpb]	04.08.08 / 25	xxx..			123 -7	xxx..
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb]	09.09.08 / 54	23 +3	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..		xxx..
Harris, All Together Dead	04.08.08 / 37	23 +3			77 -7	xxx..	xxx..	x
Harris, Club Dead	06.01.03 / 47	16 -1			53 -7	x	xxx..	59 -8	xxx..
Harris, Dead as a Doornail	09.30.08 / 34	22 =			67 -5	xx	xxx..	113 -36	xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World	09.30.08 / 39	18 -2			58 -3	xx	xxx..	75 -4	xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark	09.16.08 / 53	11 -1			27 =	11 -2	xxx..	38 -8	xxx..
Harris, Definitely Dead	09.30.08 / 35	21 -2			70 -1	xx	xxx..	x	xxx..
Harris, From Dead to Worse	03.31.09 / 25	10 +1	xxx..		40 +4	10 =	62 -8	111 -27	39 -14
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas	09.23.08 / 50	26 -3			50 -8	xx	xxx..	57 -19	xxx..
Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set	01.06.09 / 37				112 -17		12 +10		10 -7
Koontz, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book Three: Dead and Alive	07.21.09 / 9	24 -10	xxx..		55 -16	x	xxx..	xxx	xxx..
McCarthy, The Road [tpb]	04.10.07 / 128	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..	42 -9	72 +8
Meyer, Breaking Dawn (UK)	01.13.09 / 36							8 -6
Meyer, Eclipse (UK)	01.13.09 / 36							9 -5
Meyer, New Moon (UK)	01.13.09 / 36							11 -4	x
Meyer, New Moon [tpb]	06.17.08 / 66			xxx..	7 -1		44 +7
Meyer, Twilight (UK)	01.13.09 / 36							15 -3	xxx..
Meyer, Twilight [tpb]	08.14.07 / 110			xxx..	11 -2	xxx..	42 +4	xxx..	65 +
Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife [tpb]	05.24.04 / 147	1 =	1 =	x	5 -1	1 =	23 -9	6 -3	4 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [tpb]	06.30.09 / 12			xxx..	36 =		xxx	xxx..	xxx..
Sebold, The Lovely Bones [tpb]	08.25.09 / 4	13 -1			127 -8				xx
Stephenson, Anathem	09.08.09 / 2	33 =
Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind [tpb]	02.08.05 / 56	19 +2		xxx..	xxx..			xxx..	xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 09.20	WP 09.13	SFC 09.13	USAT 09.06	PW 09.14 (ch 05.11)	Amz (09.15)	UK: Amz UK (09.15)	Canada: Amz.ca (09.15)
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]