Weekly Bestsellers, 20 March 2017

Three titles debut prominently, beginning with Patricia Briggs’ Silence Fallen (Ace), latest in her Mercy Thompson series, ranking in 2nd place on three lists and in 3rd place on a fourth.

Mohsin Hamid’s surrealistic Exit West (Riverhead) also debuts on four print lists, ranking as high as #4 on the Washington Post list.

And Anne Bishop’s Etched in Bone (Ace), latest “Novel of the Others”, debuts on four lists, ranking as high as #10.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.26
WP
03.19
LAT
03.19
USAT
03.12
PW
03.20
Amz
(03.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Bishop, Etched in Bone 03.20.17 / 1 15 ++ 10 ++ 18 ++ 16 ++
Briggs, Silence Fallen 03.20.17 / 1 2 ++ 3 ++ 2 ++ 2 ++
Cast, Moon Chosen 10.31.16 / 19 9 = xxx..
Chabon, Moonglow 12.05.16 / 16 xxx.. xxx.. 7 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Clare, Lady Midnight 03.21.16 / 41 8 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman, Norse Mythology 02.06.17 / 7 3 -1 2 -1 2 = 24 +2 3 -2 24 +2 89 -35 29 +8
Hamid, Exit West 03.20.17 / 1 5 ++ 4 ++ 65 ++ 5 ++ 69 ++
Roth, Carve the Mark 01.30.17 / 8 2 = 94 + 15 -3
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay 10.31.16 / 21 x xx 10 -1 xxx.. xx xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition 10.03.16 / 23 xxx.. 23 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 58 15 + 123 +17 7 -1 90 -21 62 -12 xxx..
Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo 02.20.17 / 5 4 -3 5 -3 1 = 50 -13 4 -2 84 -48 86 -21
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 33 9 -5 6 -3 5 -1 104 -15 11 -2 xxx xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.26
WP
03.19
LAT
03.19
USAT
03.12
PW
03.20
Amz
(03.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 10 9 +1 6 = 14 -10 42 +29 28 -10 xxx..
Huxley, Brave New World 06.23.14 / 7 83 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
McGuire, Magic for Nothing 03.20.17 / 1 132 ++
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 293 9 -6 3 +5 47 -8 51 -19 71 -10 17 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) 68 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 55 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 118 +28 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 64 96 + 22 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 41 xxx.. 94 -15 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.26
WP
03.19
LAT
03.19
USAT
03.12
PW
03.20
Amz
(03.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.20)
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]