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Reception

Page published by Ryan on 31st Aug 2009.

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Twilight

Notable events:

• New York Times Editor's Choice.
• One of Publishers Weekly's "Best Children's Books of 2005".
• Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year".
• One of the American Library Association's "Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults" and "Top Ten Books for Reluctant Readers".
• One of School Library Journal's "Best Books of 2005".
• Amazon.com's "Best Book of the Decade...So Far".
• #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list within a month of its release.
• In October 2008, it was ranked #26 in USA Today's list of "Bestselling Books of Last 15 Years".

New Moon

Notable events:

• #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
  
  • Remained in that spot for eleven weeks and spent over 47 weeks in total on the list.
• #1 on USA Today's Top 150 Bestsellers.
• Biggest selling children's paperback of 2008 with over 5.3 million copies sold.
• Ranked #37 on USA Today's "Bestselling Books of Last 15 Years".

Eclipse

Notable events:

• The fourth bestselling book of 2008, only behind Twilight, New Moon, and Breaking Dawn.
• Ranked #1 on Publishers Weekly's list of "Bestselling Hardcover Backlist Children's Books" in 2008 with over 4.5 million copies sold.
• The book replaced J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on the top of bestseller lists around the globe.
• Eclipse peaked at #1 on USA Today's top 150 best sellers list and went on to spend over 100 weeks on the list.
  • Later ranked #45 on their list of the best-selling books of the last 15 years in October 2008.

Breaking Dawn

Notable events:

• From its initial print run of 3.7 million copies, 1.3 million were sold in the first 24 hours of the book's release, setting a record in first-day sales performance for the Hachette Book Group USA.
• One of the most anticipated books of 2008 with The Guardian noting, "Teenagers across the world are anxiously awaiting the next installment of author Stephenie Meyer's vampiric series of novels."
• #1 on USA Today's top 150 best sellers list and has gone on to spend over 58 weeks on the list.
• British Book Award for "Children's Book of the Year"
• At the "Children's Choice Book Awards", the novel was chosen as "Teen Choice Book of the Year" and won Meyer the "Author of the Year" award.

[Information from Wikipedia]