Weekly Bestsellers, 18 May 2015

Sarah J. Maas’ YA fantasy A Court of Thorns and Roses (Bloomsbury) debuts strongly on two YA lists at New York Times, ranking #2, and Publishers Weekly.

Also debuting this week is Charlaine Harris’ Day Shift (Ace), second in her “Midnight, Texas” series, ranking as high as #15 on the NYT fiction hardcover list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.24
WP
05.17
LAT
05.17
USAT
05.10
PW
05.18
Amz
(05.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Campbell, The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Leviathan 05.18.15 / 1 82 ++
Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 02.09.15 / 11 xxx.. 7 + xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Harris, Day Shift 05.18.15 / 1 15 ++ 52 ++ 18 ++
Ishiguro, The Buried Giant 03.02.15 / 12 xxx xxx.. 7 +6 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xx
Kemp, Star Wars: Lords of the Sith 05.11.15 / 2 x x x 20 -12 x
King, Finders Keepers 03.30.15 / 3 74 + 52 +
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses 05.18.15 / 1 2 ++ 33 ++ 5 ++
Roth, Allegiant 08.26.13 / 90 xxx.. 100 -11 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection 07.07.14 / 45 xxx.. xxx.. 9 -3 xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 157 xxx.. xxx.. 125 -5 25 -11 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.24
WP
05.17
LAT
05.17
USAT
05.10
PW
05.18
Amz
(05.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Clare, City of Heavenly Fire [tpb] 05.18.15 / 1 15 ++
Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) [tpb] 09.06.05 / 6 xxx.. 15 +
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 20 10 +6 137 + xxx..
Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] 03.10.14 / 44 xxx.. xxx.. 33 +2
King, Revival [tpb] 05.18.15 / 1 8 ++ 87 ++ 4 ++
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 72 xxx.. 132 +6 8 -5 xxx.. xxx..
Mandel, Station Eleven (UK) 05.11.15 / 2 98 -32
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 216 6 +1 xxx.. 11 -3 80 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 58 123 -8 39 +4 xxx.. 31 -17
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 222 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 94 -18
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 11 14 -4 xxx.. 14 -7
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 77 7 -2 xxx x xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Divergent [tpb] 06.17.13 / 99 xxx.. xxx.. 149 -5 10 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 91 +
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 28 6 = xxx.. 3 = 83 +7 19 -1 86 -17 xxx..
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 9 x 24 -11
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.24
WP
05.17
LAT
05.17
USAT
05.10
PW
05.18
Amz
(05.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.18)
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]