Weekly Bestsellers, 14 October 2019

Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust, Volume Two: The Secret Commonwealth (Knopf) debuts this week, ranking high on two children’s lists and ranking #18 on the combined USA Today list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.20
LAT
10.13
USAT
10.06
PW
10.14
Amz
(10.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.14)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone 03.12.18 / 84 10 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Atwood, The Testaments 07.29.19 / 12 6 -3 3 -2 14 -2 5 -2 31 -16 9 -2 2 +1
Bardugo, Ninth House 10.07.19 / 2         67 +7    
Coates, The Water Dancer 09.30.19 / 3 1 = 1 ++ 5 -4 1 = 9 -6   94 -35
Cornwell, Quantum 10.14.19 / 1       22 ++      
Hill, Full Throttle: Stories 10.14.19 / 1     38 ++ 7 ++      
King, The Institute 02.25.19 / 10 2 = 6 -2 4 +2 2 = 36 -19 xx 12 +1
Pullman, The Book of Dust, Volume Two: The Secret Commonwealth 10.07.19 / 2 1 ++   18 ++ 4 ++ x   107 -68
Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two (UK) 03.11.19 / 13           10 -6  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 5         3 +1 19 +9 13 +2
Rushdie, Quichotte 09.16.19 / 4 xxx 8 +   19 + xx   xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.20
LAT
10.13
USAT
10.06
PW
10.14
Amz
(10.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.14)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 91           27 -6 xxx..
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 119 3 -1 2 +1 36 -6 xxx.. 107 -57   9 -3
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 328   xxx.. 118 +6 xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 139 xxx.. 13 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Crichton, The Andromeda Strain [tpb] 10.14.19 / 1     82 ++        
King, Doctor Sleep [tpb] 06.23.14 / 12 xxx..   41 +15 20 +      
King, Doctor Sleep 08.08.16 / 7 xxx..     9 +9      
King, It [tpb] 04.03.17 / 54 5 -2 xxx.. 45 -11 11 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, The Shining 09.23.13 / 11   12 ++ xxx..   xxx..   70 ++
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 136   xxx.. 148 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 423   xx xxx..   xxx.. xx 83 -6
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 27 12 -1 1 +1 116 -5 15 -1 89 -18    
Roberts, Year One 10.07.19 / 2       7 +10      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.20
LAT
10.13
USAT
10.06
PW
10.14
Amz
(10.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.14)

The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

= same as last week

+/- change since last week

+ back on list

++ new on list

x no longer on list (number of x’s: weeks off list)

All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.


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