‘Twilight’ Series Sweeps Top Four Spots In USA TODAY’s Best Selling Books 2009

90 Comments January 14, 2010 by Jaypat Filed Under: Stephenie Meyer

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Our beloved Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer have swept the top four spots in the USA Today’s Best-Selling Books list of 2009!!

Led by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, vampires devoured USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list in 2009. For the second year in a row, Meyer swept the top four spots. No other author — not even J. K. Rowling— has done that in the list’s 16-year history.Meyer’s coattails pulled 16 other vampire titles onto the list of the year’s 100 most popular books.

“Meyer had an unbelievable impact,” says Michael Norris, books analyst for Simba Information, a market-research firm. He wonders what publishers will do when what he calls ” ‘the vampire industrial average’ falls. Every cycle has an end.”

But for now, Meyer — who has also benefited from Twilight movie adaptations, with more to come — has turned “the YA (young adult) category into the PG-13 of books,” he says. “She’s not just read by tweens and teens, but by a lot of 30-year-old women.”

No matter who’s reading them, books for kids and teens accounted for 29% of sales tracked in 2009 — the highest percentage in the list’s history, up from 28% in 2008 and 22% in 2007.

Yeah, I’m definitely not a teen. LOL! I loved the books!!

Wow! Congratulations Stephenie!

[Source: USAToday. Thanks Diana!]

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http://twitter.com/fortheelove ForTheLove~Team LegHitchScript

And I read all 4 in 4 weeks!! Who knew you could go a month without sleep..AND still keep your job! -

I was a walking zombie..ate lunch in the book glued to my hand..

*tear* I kind of miss it
mAriE_ImUrCh-Ch-Ch-CherryBomb!

oh that?? that name was mentioned here waaaaaay before! im glad i could share that knowledge with u. it's a must for us twifans to know such words! *wink* ^_^

*sighs in relief*
ok, good to know then! ^_^
I_Am_Happy (: JMG

I'm new here and still learning, all I have heard is Scummit (:
You can be my teacher (: Hehe
DDB_DazzledByRob TeamElevator

I love love love love love your avi! Although it does make me feel a bit light-headed..
OhEdward (The Original)

This is a good place to start. It's the BBC's list of 100 Important books to read. I love everything from Jane Eyre to Anne of Green Gables. There is something for everyone, no matter your taste and level of education.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

Also, SM has a list of her recs. Maybe you could see which books are on both lists. Happy reading!

http://www.amazon.com/Stephenie-Meyers-List-Boo…
OhEdward (The Original)

Punchy, check out the links below.
OhEdward (The Original)

I know, what is that? I do too! LOL
OhEdward (The Original)

Oh Dear, how will it all turn out? LOL
mAriE_ImUrCh-Ch-Ch-CherryBomb!

yeah! that too! i usually use that one but im liking the other one now. it speaks of how i feel really.. *wink* hehehe. oh no.. im still a newcomer here. though maybe i could teach u a thing or two? ^_^
mAriE_ImUrCh-Ch-Ch-CherryBomb!

*bites lips*
oh god! i do not know! the possibilities are endless! *bounces in her seat* hehehe ^_^
I_Am_Happy (: JMG

Yay!! Please do!! (: Thank you!! *happy dances*
DDB_DazzledByRob TeamElevator

Congrats Stephenie!! You soo deserve it! You've changed our lives by writing the Twilight Saga!
So since we (the fans) made it possible for the Twilight series to sweep the top four spots, could you mayby, as a favor to us, finish Midnight Sun? Please please please please please?
HugAVampire_PunchAWerewolf

well, thank you.
It took a lot of convincing for him to finally get him to pose like that for me!
HugAVampire_PunchAWerewolf

Done and done, thanks OE!
mAriE_ImUrCh-Ch-Ch-CherryBomb!

hehehe well we'll see.. im no expert but i'll do what i can. *wink* ^_^
I_Am_Happy (: JMG

Hehe no pressure!! *giggles*
the-love-of-my-existence

I adore Stephanie Meyer and this is so awesome for her!!! I have read all of the books over so many times it's hard to keep count at this point. I love the mood it keeps me in when reading them. I still find it amazing that a women who didn't set out to be a writer wrote this epic series!!!
leahreallyitis

I wish the Saga would continue more but I understand(sniff sniff) I wonder if it is true that there might be a movie of The Host?
DDB_DazzledByRob TeamElevator

I can only imagine the things you had to do to convince him…lol
HugAVampire_PunchAWerewolf

Not much. LOL!

*sigh*

it just took a while
HugAVampire_PunchAWerewolf

Not much. LOL!

*sigh*

it just took a while
DDB_DazzledByRob TeamElevator

Well, the result is amazing (understatement)
I don't know what you did…but you did good!!
HugAVampire_PunchAWerewolf

lol. I wish i was there for that photoshoot. I can dream can't i?
http://newmoonmovie.org DancingAlice

yes, it is; SM announced it on her official site about a month ago
DDB_DazzledByRob TeamElevator

Sure you can:) I have my dreams too, they're about Rob..don't think most of them will come true though..lol
sagrario

in these times of crisis, lucky woman indeed…but what I esentially love about the saga is how Edward falls in love with Bella…he was trying all his life not to be a monster looking for the best part of him, and suddenly the one thing that always reminds him of what he is ( a predator) because of her blood is the same thing that makes him better than ever…I simply love that…
CHEESEBURGERS!!!

Well, yeah it makes top 4…heeelllooo!!!
CHEESEBURGERS!!!

lololol
MissMary *TeamBellaLoca*

Absolutely no suprise to me. Good job Steph!
StephanieDJ

it says you have better taste in books than 3/4 of my co workers. looks like I have yet another true fact to through in there faces when they start dissing.
StephanieDJ

ya it's funny how the critics have so much to say bad, but yet the stats speak for themselves.
VAMPLOVER

I don't know. Have you read that one. I haven't. She's a fabulous author,though. Yeah-it will be das when they are all done, but we'll have to keep something going.LOL
leahreallyitis

I started to read the Host and then the next day I was in Borders and I saw this book called “CITY of BONES by Cassandra Clare and Stephenie(Meyer) higly recomends this book (which is a series of 3) Steph writes(and I qoute: )”The Mortal Instruments series is a story world that I love to live in.so I am reading the first book and anything that SM recomends I will read:)
VAMPLOVER

Let me know how they are. I'd like to read The Host ,too,I think.I'm spoiled with this saga. haha
http://ingerasultau7.weblog.ro/ Diana

thanks *hugs*…I love it too:D

Ever noticed the critics have the exact opposite reaction of the public? I'm not interested in their opinion at all…Stephenie doesn't need the whole world to love her, only those that really do:D
Bee (Team Everyone )

Oh thank you! I actually just read 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen BUT I didn't like it… It was so boring I took the book back to the library after 114 pages… My friend told me, that I should read the end, too but oh well…
leahreallyitis

oh I will let you know how they are I know I am spoiled by the saga too the book that I mentioned last night(thrusday) City of Bones is really good I am enjoying it:)
OhEdward (The Original)

I know what you mean. It's not one of my favorite books, and so many people absolutely love it. It's a bit of a head scratch to me as to why they love it so much. You really should finish it and then rent the P & P – BBC version with Colin Firth. It's really well done. And if you can't bring yourself to finish reading it, at least watch the this version of it. It runs about 6 hours in length total. It was aired as a mini series originally.
VAMPLOVER

Great! I'm going to look for City of Bones. Thanks>
leahreallyitis

there are 2 other books to this series and the second book(book 2) is called City Of Ashes and the book number 3 is City Of Glass Stephanie says they are good and I believe her I just started reading City Of Bones and it is good not bad at all:)