Weekly Bestsellers, 8 October
 Terry Pratchett’s YA novel Dodger (HarperCollins) debuts on children’s lists, ranking #3 on the list at New York Times, #5 on the list at Publishers Weekly.
Dominating the lists are three associational titles by authors familiar to the genre: J.K. Rowling’s A Casual Vacancy is the #1 hardcover on the four print lists (those except LAT) compiled here; Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue is #9 at NYT and #2 at LAT; and Junot Díaz’s collection This Is How You Lose Her is #6 at NYT, #5 at WP, and #3 at LAT.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.14 |
WP 10.07 |
LAT 10.07 |
USAT 09.30 |
PW 10.08 |
Amz (10.08) |
UK: Amz UK (10.08) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.08) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata (UK) | 09.10.12 / 5 | 24 -6 | |||||||
| Butcher, Cold Days | 09.17.12 / 4 | 61 +16 | |||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 166 | xxx.. | 12 -3 | 9 +1 | 15 + | 66 -20 | xxx.. | 38 -11 | |
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 139 | 16 +1 | 8 +1 | 19 + | 55 -7 | 69 -23 | 48 -15 | ||
| Collins, The Hunger Games | 10.07.08 / 147 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 13 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Condie, Matched | 12.14.10 / 17 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 24 ++ | |||||
| Cronin, The Twelve | 09.17.12 / 4 | 20 +30 | 36 +26 | ||||||
| Harkness, Shadow of Night | 07.02.12 / 15 | 32 -6 | xxx.. | x | x | x | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Ivey, The Snow Child | 02.20.12 / 8 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 83 +10 | |||
| Koontz, Odd Apocalypse | 08.06.12 / 10 | 33 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | x | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 84 | 14 -1 | xxx | 18 -2 | 72 -18 | xxx.. | 67 +6 | 52 -12 | 57 -28 |
| Pratchett, A Blink of the Screen (UK) | 10.08.12 / 1 | 70 ++ | |||||||
| Pratchett, Dodger | 10.08.12 / 1 | 3 ++ | 75 ++ | 5 ++ | |||||
| Pratchett, Dodger (UK) | 09.03.12 / 6 | 29 +4 | |||||||
| Roth, Insurgent | 05.07.12 / 23 | 4 +1 | xxx.. | 82 -17 | 9 + | xxx.. | xxx | ||
| Stiefvater, The Raven Boys | 10.01.12 / 2 | 10 -2 | |||||||
| Weber, Midst Toil and Tribulation | 10.01.12 / 2 | 24 -14 | x | x | x | ||||
| Weeks, The Blinding Knife | 09.24.12 / 3 | 35 -15 | xx | xx | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.14 |
WP 10.07 |
LAT 10.07 |
USAT 09.30 |
PW 10.08 |
Amz (10.08) |
UK: Amz UK (10.08) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.08) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 56 | 35 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 18 | xxx.. | 60 -8 | 78 -30 | |||||
| Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 16 | xxx.. | 72 -6 | ||||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 118 | xxx.. | x | 12 -1 | xxx.. | 38 -10 | 95 -41 | 85 +6 | |
| Crichton/Preston, Micro | 10.08.12 / 1 | 4 ++ | 4 ++ | 39 ++ | 2 ++ | ||||
| Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] | 09.09.08 / 68 | 29 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Harrison, A Perfect Blood | 10.08.12 / 1 | 14 ++ | |||||||
| King, 11/22/63 [tpb] | 07.30.12 / 11 | 17 -1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 103 -43 | 21 -6 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 78 | 22 -10 | xxx.. | 14 + | 134 -21 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 86 | 21 -11 | 13 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 100 -27 | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 58 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 131 -21 | |||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 82 | 10 -4 | xxx.. | 8 + | 65 -8 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 77 | xxx.. | xxx | 26 = | xxx.. | 26 -9 | |||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 78 | 17 -8 | 15 + | 125 -16 | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | |
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) | 02.15.05 / 28 | xxx.. | 29 +12 | ||||||
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] | 09.27.04 / 27 | 5 = | 3 -1 | 106 -29 | 17 +8 | xxx.. | |||
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] | 07.09.12 / 14 | 13 +2 | xxx.. | xx | 133 -40 | 20 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] | 02.06.12 / 36 | 30 -4 | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Tolkien, The Hobbit | 34 -4 | 22 + | |||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.14 |
WP 10.07 |
LAT 10.07 |
USAT 09.30 |
PW 10.08 |
Amz (10.08) |
UK: Amz UK (10.08) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.08) |
| 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] | |||||||
