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Bestsellers 16 Sep
Junot Díaz
S.M. Stirling
Christopher Paolini

Bestsellers 9 Sep
Terry Brooks
Michael Reaves



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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posted 23 September 2008

Neal Stephenson's Anathem (Morrow) debuts strongly this week on print lists, ranking #1 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, #2 on the same lists at Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle, #3 at Publishers Weekly.

Christopher Paolini's Brisingr, which went on sale last Saturday, still ranks #1 on all three Amazon lists today.

With the release of HBO series True Blood this month, based on Charlaine Harris' series of Sookie Stackhouse novels, reprint editions of the novels from Ace are ranking prominently on some lists; the first book, Dead Until Dark, for instance, ranks #8 on this week's mass market list from Publishers Weekly.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.28
WP
09.21
SFC
09.21
USAT
09.14
PW
09.22
Amz
(09.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.23)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 30x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Barry, The Lace Reader 08.19.08 / 6 29 -11 xxx..   xxx xx xxx    
Brooks, The Gypsy Morph 08.26.08 / 5 10 -3     91 -40 9 -2 xxx xxx  
Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox 07.01.08 / 13     xxx.. 125 -23   93 -21 38 -10 x
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 36 xxx..   xx 66 +2   xxx   xxx..
Funke, Inkdeath 09.23.08 / 1           43 ++   25 ++
Herbert/Anderson, Paul of Dune 09.23.08 / 1               46 ++
Kenyon, Acheron 07.29.08 / 9 33 -16 xxx..   x xx xxx.. xxx xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 33     8 -3 4 -1   6 -1   xxx
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 59     5 -2 5 = xxx.. 7 -1   xxx..
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 30 6 = 10 -2 xxx.. 24 -3 4 = 65 -3 xxx.. 44 -21
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 58       xxx.. xxx.. 46 -4   xxx..
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 23           58 -15   xxx..
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 35           1 = 1 = 1 =
Patterson/Ledwidge, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X 08.05.08 / 8 5 -1 xxx..   x x     xxx..
Pratchett, Nation (UK) 08.05.08 / 7             4 -1  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 02.06.07 / 85     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 86 -1    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 7           5 +18    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 7             2 +7 3 +9
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence 05.27.08 / 17 xxx..   9 + xxx..   xxx..   xxx..
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret 05.08.07 / 65 8 -1     xxx.. x xxx..    
Stephenson, Anathem 07.22.08 / 5 1 ++ 2 ++ 2 ++ 26 ++ 3 ++ 64 -45 xxx 30 -8
Stirling, The Scourge of God 09.16.08 / 2 19 =     x        
Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 09.02.08 / 4 14 -2 xxx   102 -35 13 -1     x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.28
WP
09.21
SFC
09.21
USAT
09.14
PW
09.22
Amz
(09.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.23)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 94       147 -29   xxx..   xxx..
Briggs, Cry Wolf 07.29.08 / 9 x xxx..   135 -24 xxx xxx..   xxx..
Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead [tpb] 02.06.07 / 4     xxx..         58 ++
Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union [tpb] 05.13.08 / 20 30 -1 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 3 2 +2 8 +2 1 =   10 +3 40 -3    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 4           25 +    
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 2 8 +17     51 ++ 8 ++ 34 -4    
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 1 17 ++         17 ++    
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 77 10 + xxx.. xxx.. 73 -14 15 -3 80 -2 xxx.. 69 +
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 15     x 2 =   8 -1    
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 59     4 = 1 = xxx.. 4 = xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 10   xxx xxx 37 -11   48 -13 78 -24 15 +1
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 96       143 +   xxx..   xxx..
Scott, The Alchemyst [tpb] 09.09.08 / 3 7 +2              
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.28
WP
09.21
SFC
09.21
USAT
09.14
PW
09.22
Amz
(09.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.23)
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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