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Weekly Bestsellers


Bestsellers 22 Feb
Deborah Harkness
Karen Russell

Bestsellers 15 Feb
Kristen Britain

2011 Directories





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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.

Weekly Bestellers


Week ending 1 March 2011


Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear (DAW), follow-up to his popular debut novel The Name of the Wind, goes on sale today, and is riding high on all three Amazon lists when checked -- as high as #3 on Amazon Canada, #2 on Amazon.com.

Last week's debut, Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches remains high on print lists, ranking #2 on three of them, #3 on one other.



Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.06
WP
02.27
LAT
02.27
USAT
02.20
PW
02.28
Amz
(03.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.01)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   30x5 10x2 15x2 150 15x3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Bear, Halo: Cryptum 01.18.11 / 7 28 +4   xxx..   xxx      
Briggs, River Marked 02.15.11 / 3           15 +27 63 ++  
Cast/Cast, Awakened 01.18.11 / 7     xxx 19 -5   xx xx xxx
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 82 xxx..   19 -1 16 =   34 -10   xx
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 55     xxx 18 -5   29 -10 xxx.. xxx
Condie, Matched 12.14.10 / 12 10 -1     xxx..        
Erikson, The Crippled God (UK) 02.08.11 / 4             92 -65 79 -46
Fforde, One of Our Thursdays is Missing (UK) 02.15.11 / 3             66 -57  
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches 02.22.11 / 2 2 = 3 = 2 ++ 12 -4 2 = 17 -9 x 22 +36
Harris, Dead Reckoning 12.28.10 / 10           19 -2 75 -30 60 +34
Harrison, Pale Demon 02.15.11 / 3           71 -56   x
Jordan/Sanderson, Towers of Midnight 07.27.10 / 32 19 = xxx.. xxx.. xx 19 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, Full Dark, No Stars 10.12.10 / 21 25 +4 xxx.. xxx.. 141 -2 22 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, What the Night Knows 01.04.11 / 9 12 +1 xx xxx.. 38 +4 11 +1 xxx..    
Lore, I Am Number Four 08.17.10 / 11 1 =     13 +7   x   94 -32
Moning, Shadowfever 01.18.11 / 7 16 +5 xxx xx 90 -27 17 +4 xxx..   x
Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear 02.01.11 / 5           3 +8 8 +41 2 +17
Russell, Swamplandia! 02.22.11 / 2 11 +1   3 +3 x 13 =      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.06
WP
02.27
LAT
02.27
USAT
02.20
PW
02.28
Amz
(03.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.01)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Briggs, Silver Borne 02.08.11 / 4 19 -3     xxx 18 =      
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 34 xxx..   12 -3 11 =   57 -7   xx
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 66 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 13 -7 xxx..
Koontz, Frankenstein: Lost Souls 02.08.11 / 4 13 +2     65 -16 12 +2      
Meyer, Breaking Dawn (UK) 01.13.09 / 112             82 -30 xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn [tpb] 07.27.10 / 32     xxx.. 56 -1   xxx..    
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 126       xxx..   xxx.. 95 -1 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.06
WP
02.27
LAT
02.27
USAT
02.20
PW
02.28
Amz
(03.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.01)
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]
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