Top children’s (and YA) books of 2009

Publishers Weekly just released its top books of 2009 and, even though she didn’t actually release any new books in 2009, Stephenie Meyer was STILL on top, selling roughly 26.5 million copies (and that doesn’t even include The Host.)

The other big winner was Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which sold 5.7 million. Add in a do-it-yourself journal and a few other titles and you get a grand total of 9.5 million copies.

Here are the books that sold over 300,000 copies:

1. Eclipse. Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown/Tingley (2,565,053).

2. New Moon (mass market media tie-in). Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown/Tingley (2,089,468).
3. New Moon (media tie-in). Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown/Tingley (1,664,364).
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. J.K. Rowling, illus. by Mary Grandpré. Scholastic/Levine (1,085,698).
5. New Moon: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion. Mark Cotta Vaz. Little, Brown (845,961).
6. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (mass market). James Patterson. Little, Brown (639,755).
7. The Final Warning (mass market). James Patterson. Little, Brown (622,795).
8. Evermore (The Immortals #1). Alyson Noël. St. Martin’s Griffin (615,961).
9. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4). Rick Riordan. Disney-Hyperion (584,478).
10. Blue Moon (The Immortals #2). Alyson Noël. St. Martin’s Griffin (471,143).
11. *Night World #3: Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight. L.J. Smith. Simon Pulse.
12. Fancy Nancy: The Dazzling Book Report. Jane O’Connor, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser. HarperCollins (379,231).
13. PS: I Loathe You (The Clique #10). Lisi Harrison. Little, Brown/Poppy (372,790).
14. All the Lovely Bad Ones. Mary Downing Hahn. HMH/Sandpiper (362,585).
15. Fancy Nancy: Pajama Day. Jane O’Connor, illus. by Robin Preiss Glasser. HarperCollins (355,692).
16. *City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments). Cassandra Clare. S&S/McElderry.
17. Three Cups of Tea (young readers’ edition). Greg Mortenson. Puffin (324,004).