Weekly Bestsellers, 6 May

Charlaine Harris’ final Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After (Ace), is poised to debut on print lists; it will be published tomorrow. It’s been ranking on the Amazon sites for eight weeks now, with pre-publication sales, and still ranks in the top ten on all three lists today.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.12
WP
05.06
LAT
05.06
USAT
04.28
PW
05.06
Amz
(05.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.06)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Atkinson, Life After Life 04.08.13 / 5 5 -2 10 -3 1 = 44 -13 10 -1 37 -20 53 -24 24 -14
Clare, Clockwork Prince 12.05.11 / 21 xxx.. xxx.. 21 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Clare, Clockwork Princess 03.18.13 / 8 87 -19 4 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xx
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 196 xxx.. xxx.. 51 -15 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 169 xxx.. 63 -8 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman, American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition 08.23.11 / 3 xxx.. 43 +
Gaiman/Headley, Unnatural Creatures 05.06.13 / 1 11 ++
Harris, Dead Ever After 03.18.13 / 8 4 +8 3 +39 9 +5
Hill, NOS4A2 05.06.13 / 1 85 ++
Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light 09.17.12 / 32 24 -4 xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Kenyon, Inferno 04.22.13 / 3 x 11 -6
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 114 14 -2 xxx.. xx 115 +2 xxx.. 50 -10 31 +10 10 +8
Oates, The Accursed 03.18.13 / 7 xxx.. xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx..
Pratchett/Baxter, The Long War (UK) 05.06.13 / 1 20 ++
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 53 5 = xxx.. 113 -12 19 + xxx.. xxx..
Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories 01.21.13 / 16 33 -3 xxx.. 3 +7 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.12
WP
05.06
LAT
05.06
USAT
04.28
PW
05.06
Amz
(05.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.06)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brooks, World War Z 11.07.11 / 33 xxx.. 6 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Brooks, World War Z [tpb] 10.27.09 / 84 2 = 76 -15 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 53 13 -2 12 + xx
Clare, City of Bones [tpb] 04.08.08 / 45 xxx.. 90 +6 xxx..
Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] 06.04.12 / 27 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 85 +
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 34 xxx.. xxx.. 81 + 58 +
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 148 xxx.. xxx.. 79 -13 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Harris, Deadlocked 04.08.13 / 5 15 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Howey, Wool [tpb] 03.25.13 / 7 33 -4 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. x
King, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole 03.11.13 / 5 32 + xxx..
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 104 11 +3 xxx.. 15 + 144 -20 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 116 14 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 64 + xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 112 2 +2 xxx.. 11 -7 38 +7 xxx.. xxx.. 25 +31 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 83 29 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 107 xxx.. 137 -12 8 -1 xxx.. 2 +9
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 108 12 +1 x 135 -5 xxx.. xxx.. 88 + xxx..
Meyer, The Host 08.16.11 / 21 22 = 71 -39 xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.12
WP
05.06
LAT
05.06
USAT
04.28
PW
05.06
Amz
(05.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.06)
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]