Fiction Bestsellers, Week Ending 3/14
The big bestseller news this week sounds like old news; a teen vampire novel is at the top of the USA Today list.
The new twist? It’s NOT by Stephenie Meyer — it’s Hunted, the fifth in the House of Night series by mother/daughter team P.C. and Kristin Cast.
It still shows as #2 on the 3/29 NYT Childrens Series list, after Twilight, because the entire Twilight series is still outselling its rival.
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All four titles in the Twilight series are still in the USA Today top ten:
#2 Twilight
#4 New Moon
#6 Eclipse
#8 Breaking Dawn
The earlier volumes in the House of Night series are further down the USA Today list:
#24 Marked (first in series) — in top 150 for 37 weeks
#45 Betrayed (second) — 23 weeks
#60 Untamed (fourth) — 24 weeks
#61 Chosen (third) — 21 weeks
New Adult Fiction Bestsellers
#11 USA Today, General
#2 NYT Fiction
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#44 USA Today, General
#8 NYT Trade Paperback Fiction
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#89 USA Today, General
#7 NYT Fiction
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#118 USA Today, General
# 21 NYT Fiction, Extended, after 3 weeks; moving up
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford, Ballantine Books
This is one of the first novels we’ve been tracking on EarlyWord hit the list this week. We wrote about this one at the end of January: First Novel a Hit with Booksellers
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#16 NYT fiction
The Help by Kathryn Stockett debuts on the main list, even though it is at #16 because it ties with Christopher Moore’s Fool at #15
This is another first novel we’ve been tracking (Getting ‘The Help’); we also did a giveaway of the audio after Robin Whitten of AudioFile raved about it. After four weeks on the extended list, it now moves onto the main list.
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# 26 NYT Fiction, Extended
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
This one is already a bestseller on the West Coast and in independent stores. It’s been moving up the following lists, as of last week:
- LA Times, at #7 after two weeks
- SF Chronicle, #5 after three week
- Indie list for five, #10 after five weeks
We did a heavy reserve alert on this title earlier; Heavy Reserve Alert — Little Bee
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#28 NYT Fiction, Extended
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#30 NYT Fiction, Extended; down from #27 last week, after two weeks
Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell
Looks like the publisher’s hopes for big sales of the million dollar acquisition will not be realized.
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#32 NYT Fiction, Extended
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Steinhauer takes a break from his crime series in this stand-alone spy thriller
It is also available in audio, which many libraries have not ordered:
9 Tape; 1-4332-6178-7; $79.95
Playaway; 1-4332-6186-2; $69.99
MP3CD; 1-4332-6182-4; $29.95
10 CD; 1-4332-6179-4; $99.00
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#33 NYT Fiction, Extended
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