Weekly Bestsellers, 20 May

Charlaine Harris’ Dead Ever After, final volume in her Sookie Stackhouse series, debuts at #1 on four print lists compiled here (with the fifth, LA Times, typically running a week behind the others).

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.26
WP
05.19
LAT
05.19
USAT
05.12
PW
05.20
Amz
(05.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Atkinson, Life After Life 04.08.13 / 7 11 -2 xx 1 = 83 -18 14 -4 60 -12 81 + 24 +
Caine, Fall of Night 05.20.13 / 1 16 ++
Clare, Clockwork Princess 03.18.13 / 10 123 -45 4 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 198 xxx.. xxx.. 59 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 171 xxx.. 61 +11 xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
Harris, Dead Ever After 03.18.13 / 10 1 ++ 1 ++ 1 ++ 1 ++ 18 -8 31 -19 16 -3
Hill, NOS4A2 05.06.13 / 3 14 -9 x 104 -76 19 -13 x 71 ++
Kenyon, Inferno 04.22.13 / 5 xxx 24 -7
Lebbon, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Into the Void 05.20.13 / 1 22 ++
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 116 19 -5 xxx.. xxx.. 110 +6 xxx.. 44 +5 61 -12 15 -3
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 55 4 = xxx.. 101 +9 10 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories 01.21.13 / 18 xx xxx.. 12 -6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Yancey, The 5th Wave 05.13.13 / 2 2 ++ 41 ++ 1 ++ 74 -40
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.26
WP
05.19
LAT
05.19
USAT
05.12
PW
05.20
Amz
(05.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brooks, World War Z 11.07.11 / 35 xxx.. 14 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Brooks, World War Z [tpb] 10.27.09 / 86 3 = 9 ++ 63 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 55 7 +16 xx 31 + 41 ++ x
Clare, City of Bones [tpb] 04.08.08 / 47 xxx.. 107 -19 xxx..
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 150 xxx.. xxx.. 86 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 64 +16 xxx..
Harris, Deadlocked 04.08.13 / 6 13 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, Odd Apocalypse 05.13.13 / 2 6 +2 39 ++ 4 +1
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 106 12 +5 xxx.. 12 + 120 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 118 16 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 98 -24 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 114 3 +1 xxx.. 10 = 33 +6 xxx.. xxx.. 24 +9 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 84 15 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 109 xxx.. 95 +17 7 +1 xxx.. 5 -2
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 110 14 +8 x 142 + xxx.. xxx.. 75 +2 xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 170 xxx.. xxx.. xxx 67 +
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.26
WP
05.19
LAT
05.19
USAT
05.12
PW
05.20
Amz
(05.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.20)
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]