Weekly Bestsellers, 18 May 2015
Sarah J. Maas’ YA fantasy A Court of Thorns and Roses (Bloomsbury) debuts strongly on two YA lists at New York Times, ranking #2, and Publishers Weekly. Also debuting this week is Charlaine Harris’ Day Shift (Ace), second in her “Midnight, Texas” series, ranking as high as #15 on the NYT fiction hardcover list.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 05.24 |
WP 05.17 |
LAT 05.17 |
USAT 05.10 |
PW 05.18 |
Amz (05.18) |
UK: Amz UK (05.18) |
Canada: Amz.ca (05.18) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Campbell, The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Leviathan | 05.18.15 / 1 | 82 ++ | |||||||
| Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances | 02.09.15 / 11 | xxx.. | 7 + | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Harris, Day Shift | 05.18.15 / 1 | 15 ++ | 52 ++ | 18 ++ | |||||
| Ishiguro, The Buried Giant | 03.02.15 / 12 | xxx | xxx.. | 7 +6 | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xx |
| Kemp, Star Wars: Lords of the Sith | 05.11.15 / 2 | x | x | x | 20 -12 | x | |||
| King, Finders Keepers | 03.30.15 / 3 | 74 + | 52 + | ||||||
| Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses | 05.18.15 / 1 | 2 ++ | 33 ++ | 5 ++ | |||||
| Roth, Allegiant | 08.26.13 / 90 | xxx.. | 100 -11 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection | 07.07.14 / 45 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 9 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Roth, Insurgent | 05.07.12 / 157 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 125 -5 | 25 -11 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 05.24 |
WP 05.17 |
LAT 05.17 |
USAT 05.10 |
PW 05.18 |
Amz (05.18) |
UK: Amz UK (05.18) |
Canada: Amz.ca (05.18) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Clare, City of Heavenly Fire [tpb] | 05.18.15 / 1 | 15 ++ | |||||||
| Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (UK) [tpb] | 09.06.05 / 6 | xxx.. | 15 + | ||||||
| Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] | 06.18.12 / 20 | 10 +6 | 137 + | xxx.. | |||||
| Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] | 03.10.14 / 44 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 33 +2 | |||||
| King, Revival [tpb] | 05.18.15 / 1 | 8 ++ | 87 ++ | 4 ++ | |||||
| Lowry, The Giver | 09.02.13 / 72 | xxx.. | 132 +6 | 8 -5 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Mandel, Station Eleven (UK) | 05.11.15 / 2 | 98 -32 | |||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 216 | 6 +1 | xxx.. | 11 -3 | 80 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set | 03.31.14 / 58 | 123 -8 | 39 +4 | xxx.. | 31 -17 | ||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 222 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 94 -18 | |||
| Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] | 03.09.15 / 11 | 14 -4 | xxx.. | 14 -7 | |||||
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] | 06.17.13 / 77 | 7 -2 | xxx | x | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Roth, Divergent [tpb] | 06.17.13 / 99 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 149 -5 | 10 -8 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) | 91 + | ||||||||
| Weir, The Martian [tpb] | 11.10.14 / 28 | 6 = | xxx.. | 3 = | 83 +7 | 19 -1 | 86 -17 | xxx.. | |
| Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] | 03.16.15 / 9 | x | 24 -11 | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 05.24 |
WP 05.17 |
LAT 05.17 |
USAT 05.10 |
PW 05.18 |
Amz (05.18) |
UK: Amz UK (05.18) |
Canada: Amz.ca (05.18) |
| 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] | |||||||
