Weekly Bestsellers, 18 August

Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land (Viking) debuts on three lists, ranking #1 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list.

Terry Goodkind’s Severed Souls (Tor) also debuts on three of the lists compiled here, ranking a notch or three below Grossman in every case.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.24
WP
08.10
LAT
08.17
USAT
08.10
PW
08.18
Amz
(08.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Clare, City of Heavenly Fire 05.26.14 / 13 85 -14 17 -1 xxx.. 95 -37 62 -19
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 230 xxx.. xxx.. 19 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Doescher, William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return 07.14.14 / 2 xxx.. 20 ++ xxx..
Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood 06.23.14 / 9 18 -3 xxx.. x 90 +1 x xxx.. 84 -35
Goodkind, Severed Souls 08.18.14 / 1 4 ++ 23 ++ 9 ++
Grossman, The Magician’s Land 08.04.14 / 3 1 ++ 22 ++ 8 ++ xx x
Harkness, The Book of Life 07.07.14 / 7 7 -3 7 + 4 -1 33 -6 6 -1 xx xx 93 -56
King, Mr. Mercedes 02.17.14 / 19 15 -3 xxx.. xx 72 -14 x xxx xxx.. 34 +7
Lepucki, California 07.21.14 / 5 x 3 +1 xx xx
Martin, A Feast for Crows (UK) 09.06.05 / 24 72 -24
Riggs, Hollow City 01.06.14 / 33 xx xxx.. 23 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 99 8 = xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Allegiant 08.26.13 / 52 xxx.. 16 +9 5 +1 68 -23 64 -21 18 +1
Roth, Divergent Series Complete Box Set 03.31.14 / 21 55 +46 x 73 +20 23 +47
Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection 07.07.14 / 7 8 +5 4 +5 1 = 22 -9 11 -5
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 120 xxx.. xxx.. 10 +10 xxx.. 40 -22 21 +13 38 -14
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.24
WP
08.10
LAT
08.17
USAT
08.10
PW
08.18
Amz
(08.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atkinson, Life After Life [tpb] 01.20.14 / 31 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 66 -14
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 185 xxx.. 92 +12 xxx.. 32 +2 xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 120 10 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 21 12 + 12 +7 8 ++ 21 -2 88 +7
Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] 03.10.14 / 6 xxx.. xxx.. 16 ++
Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane [tpb] 06.16.14 / 10 17 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 17 -1
Grossman, The Magicians [tpb] 06.08.10 / 12 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 134 + xxx..
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 29 21 +3 xxx.. xxx.. 125 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx
King, Doctor Sleep [tpb] 06.23.14 / 9 xxx xxx.. 21 -3
Leckie, Ancillary Justice [tpb] 08.18.14 / 1 81 ++
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 33 3 +4 6 +1 18 +60 92 -53
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 163 13 +2 xxx.. 13 + xx xxx.. xxx.. 33 -5 xxx..
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 10.28.13 / 43 8 +1 xxx.. 11 + 140 -24 x xxx 52 -12 99 +
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 170 24 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 179 4 = xxx.. 5 -1 86 -17 xxx.. xxx.. 36 +2 xxx..
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 162 16 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 39 -7 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 21 147 -33 65 -22 10 -3
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 204 xxx.. 115 +5 53 -4 59 +11 xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 59 xxx.. 135 -46 xxx..
Roth, Divergent [tpb] 06.17.13 / 62 xxx.. xxx 6 +9 10 +9 25 -9 47 +13 82 -31
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.24
WP
08.10
LAT
08.17
USAT
08.10
PW
08.18
Amz
(08.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.18)
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]