Weekly Bestsellers, 25 February
 Two titles debut this week, beginning with Karen Russell’s collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Knopf), ranking #15 on the New York Times hardcover fiction list, #18 on the same list at Publishers Weekly.
Second is Peter V. Brett’s The Daylight War (Del Rey), third book in his Demon Cycle, ranking #19 on both of the same two lists. Meanwhile, George Saunders’ Tenth of December still ranks #1 on the LA Times list, and Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson’s A Memory of Light still ranks as high as #4, on the same list.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 03.03 |
WP 02.24 |
LAT 02.24 |
USAT 02.17 |
PW 02.25 |
Amz (02.25) |
UK: Amz UK (02.25) |
Canada: Amz.ca (02.25) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Brett, The Daylight War | 02.25.13 / 1 | 19 ++ | 50 ++ | 19 ++ | |||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 186 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 76 -28 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx | |
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 159 | xxx.. | 72 -30 | xxx.. | 94 +5 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Doctorow, Homeland | 02.18.13 / 2 | 13 -3 | |||||||
| Harrison, Ever After | 02.04.13 / 4 | 33 -17 | x | x | |||||
| Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light | 09.17.12 / 22 | 5 -2 | 10 -2 | 4 +2 | 87 -17 | 7 -2 | 48 -16 | 109 -24 | 37 -13 |
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 104 | 20 -3 | xxx.. | x | 117 +23 | xxx.. | 68 +20 | 81 -5 | 42 -17 |
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | 05.14.12 / 28 | 14 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Roth, Insurgent | 05.07.12 / 43 | 4 +1 | xxx.. | 112 +13 | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove | 02.25.13 / 1 | 15 ++ | 120 ++ | 18 ++ | |||||
| Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories | 01.21.13 / 6 | 3 -1 | 2 +2 | 1 = | 42 +12 | 8 -2 | 57 -29 | xx | |
| Tolkien, The Hobbit | 12.03.12 / 9 | 24 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 03.03 |
WP 02.24 |
LAT 02.24 |
USAT 02.17 |
PW 02.25 |
Amz (02.25) |
UK: Amz UK (02.25) |
Canada: Amz.ca (02.25) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Brooks, World War Z | 11.07.11 / 25 | xxx.. | 13 + | xxx | xxx.. | 75 +4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Brooks, World War Z [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 74 | 8 +1 | 93 -12 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Card, Ender’s Game | 07.05.11 / 45 | 27 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Card, Shadows in Flight | 02.25.13 / 1 | 19 ++ | |||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 26 | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | 57 ++ | ||||
| Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 25 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 95 -20 | 63 + | ||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 138 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 78 -21 | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | |
| Ivey, The Snow Child [tpb] | 11.19.12 / 15 | xx | 79 +19 | ||||||
| Koontz, Odd Interlude | 01.14.13 / 7 | 30 -11 | xxx | x | 21 +1 | ||||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 94 | 12 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 106 | 11 +18 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 102 | 5 +12 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 147 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | 72 + | xxx.. |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 97 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 15 +21 | xxx.. | 8 +13 | |||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 98 | 10 +17 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 93 + | xxx.. | |
| Meyer, The Host | 08.16.11 / 11 | 13 + | 122 + | xxx.. | |||||
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) | 02.15.05 / 42 | 7 +25 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] | 09.27.04 / 47 | 34 -5 | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | x |
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] | 07.09.12 / 34 | 23 +1 | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. |
| Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: Charon’s Claw: Neverwinter Saga, Book III | 02.25.13 / 1 | 28 ++ | |||||||
| Tolkien, The Hobbit | xxx.. | xx | 73 -27 | xxx | 98 -18 | xxx.. | |||
| Walker, The Age of Miracles | 01.28.13 / 5 | xxx.. | 6 -2 | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 03.03 |
WP 02.24 |
LAT 02.24 |
USAT 02.17 |
PW 02.25 |
Amz (02.25) |
UK: Amz UK (02.25) |
Canada: Amz.ca (02.25) |
| 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] | |||||||
