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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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SFFH Books on General Bestseller Lists
posted 20 January 2009

Simon R. Green's Just Another Judgement Day (Ace), latest novel in his Nightside series, debuts this week, ranking #31 on the extended New York Times fiction hardcover list.

And the next novel in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead and Gone, due from Ace in May, ranks #42 on Amazon.com today with pre-publication sales.

Harris' first eight Sookie Stackhouse novels still rank on lists -- all of them on Amazon.com, all but one of them on NY Times lists.

But Stephenie Meyer still rules the lists, including the top three spots on today's Amazon.com list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.25
WP
01.18
SFC
01.18
USAT
01.11
PW
01.19
(ch 12.08)
Amz
(01.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x4 10x3 150 15x5 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Collins, The Hunger Games 10.07.08 / 16 5 +1       xxx..      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 10.23.07 / 53 xxx..   xxx.. 108 -11   xxx..   xxx..
Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 09.30.08 / 17 9 -1   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx   xxx..
Green, Just Another Judgement Day 01.20.09 / 1 31 ++              
Harris, Dead and Gone 01.20.09 / 1           42 ++    
Harris, From Dead to Worse 05.06.08 / 22 11 +8 xxx..   138 +5 12 + 60 -5   xxx
King, Just After Sunset 11.11.08 / 11 20 -8 xx   x x xxx xxx.. xxx
Maguire, A Lion Among Men 10.28.08 / 13 25 -7 xxx.. xxx.. x xxx..     xxx
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 02.12.08 / 50     8 -5 3 =   1 =   2 =
Meyer, Eclipse 08.14.07 / 76     1 +1 2 = xxx.. 2 =   3 =
Meyer, The Host 02.12.08 / 47 2 +1 7 +1 xxx.. 23 -5 2 +2 23 -5 xxx.. 21 -2
Meyer, The Host (UK) 01.13.09 / 2             66 +22  
Meyer, New Moon 08.14.07 / 75     xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 37 -13   22 =
Meyer, Twilight 08.14.07 / 40           48 -12   x
Paolini, Brisingr 01.22.08 / 52     xxx.. 67 -25   111 = x xxx
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 24     9 -5 11 -4   25 -11    
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 24             19 -7 12 -2
Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor 01.13.09 / 2 27 -6     x        
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.25
WP
01.18
SFC
01.18
USAT
01.11
PW
01.19
(ch 12.08)
Amz
(01.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol [tpb] 12.09.08 / 7 33 -21     x xxx..      
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 20 31 -25 xx 3 -1   xxx.. 39 =   xxx..
Funke, Inkheart [tpb] 05.31.05 / 49 xxx..     62 +86 xxx..      
Harris, All Together Dead 04.08.08 / 18 30 -2     132 -22   xxx..    
Harris, Club Dead 06.01.03 / 21 26 -4     100 -15 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead as a Doornail 09.30.08 / 16 xx     122 -10   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead to the World 09.30.08 / 17 25 =     103 -11 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Dead Until Dark 09.16.08 / 19 14 -5     43 -13 10 = xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Definitely Dead 09.30.08 / 14 29 -2     124 -5   xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 09.23.08 / 18 21 -6     76 -11 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set 01.06.09 / 3           22 -2   15 +1
McCarthy, The Road 12.02.08 / 8 xx     54 -17        
McCarthy, The Road [tpb] 04.10.07 / 94 28 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 75 +24 xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn (UK) 01.13.09 / 2             1 =  
Meyer, Eclipse (UK) 01.13.09 / 2             3 =  
Meyer, New Moon (UK) 01.13.09 / 2             4 -2 5 -1
Meyer, New Moon [tpb] 06.17.08 / 32     5 -2 1 =   3 =    
Meyer, Twilight (UK) 01.13.09 / 2             5 -1 9 +2
Meyer, Twilight [tpb] 08.14.07 / 76     x 4 = xxx.. 7 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen [tpb] 07.22.08 / 27   xxx.. xxx.. 39 -10   28 +2 76 -34 24 +41
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.25
WP
01.18
SFC
01.18
USAT
01.11
PW
01.19
(ch 12.08)
Amz
(01.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.20)
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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