Weekly Bestsellers, 20 August

Two genre titles debut in the top 10 of the New York Times fiction hardcover list: R.A. Salvatore’s Charon’s Claw (Wizards of the Coast), third book in his Forgotten Realms Neverwinter saga, at #4, and Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Time Untime (St. Martin’s), latest in her Dark-Hunters series, at #8. Lower down at #18 is a new Star Wars novel by Aaron Allston.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.26
WP
08.02
LAT
08.19
USAT
08.12
PW
08.13
Amz
(08.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Allston, Star Wars: X-Wing: Mercy Kill 08.20.12 / 1 18 ++
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 159 xxx.. 16 -7 9 = 17 +9 xxx.. 9 +2
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 132 15 +3 6 +2 14 +4 53 -19 10 +2
Harkness, Shadow of Night 07.02.12 / 8 14 -5 [ 9 ] 18 -14 35 -6 [ 8 ] xx xxx xx
Kenyon, Time Untime 08.20.12 / 1 8 ++ 31 ++
Koontz, Odd Apocalypse 08.06.12 / 3 5 -3 [ 3 ] 5 ++ 14 -9 [ 2 ] xx
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 77 12 -2 [ 10 ] xx 51 -5 46 -12 19 -3 14 +1
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 15 3 = xxx..
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 16 1 = 19 + 61 -7 xxx.. xx
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: Charon’s Claw: Neverwinter Saga, Book III 08.20.12 / 1 4 ++ 55 ++ 46 ++
Walker, The Age of Miracles 06.25.12 / 9 32 -10 11 +2 xxx [ 24 ] xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven 07.23.12 / 5 x 14 +2 xxx xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.26
WP
08.02
LAT
08.19
USAT
08.12
PW
08.13
Amz
(08.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Andrews, Gunmetal Magic 08.13.12 / 2 x 126 -96 [ 19 ]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 150 144 -3 [ 13 ] 65 -6 xxx.. xxx..
Butcher, Ghost Story 08.20.12 / 1 16 ++
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 31 19 +3 xxx.. 134 +4
Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] 06.04.12 / 11 22 +14 36 -3
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 9 28 +15
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 111 xxx.. x 8 +4 8 +2 50 -23 19 +7
Cronin, The Passage 08.20.12 / 1 22 ++ 136 ++
Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 04.09.12 / 20 xx 109 -20
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 20 17 -9 x 59 -9 [ 16 ] xxx.. xxx
King, 11/22/63 [tpb] 07.30.12 / 4 6 -1 [ 9 ] 14 ++ 32 -5 [ 5 ] 107 -15 xx
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 71 15 +2 12 = 88 -24 xxx.. 84 -21 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 79 17 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 40 +3 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] 07.26.11 / 51 xxx.. x 80 -5
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 75 7 +4 9 -3 47 -6 xxx 71 -16 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 69 26 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 70 129 = 47 -31 xxx.. 8 -3
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 71 9 +3 13 +1 78 -22 xxx.. 33 -1 xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 20 15 -5 xxx.. x 54 +13 xxx..
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 7 7 -1 6 -1 68 -19 [ 9 ] xxx xxx x
Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] 02.06.12 / 29 32 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 158 xxx.. xxx.. 67 + 88 +
Tolkien, The Hobbit 75 -17
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.26
WP
08.02
LAT
08.19
USAT
08.12
PW
08.13
Amz
(08.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.20)
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]