Weekly Bestsellers, 12 October 2015

Jim Butcher’s The Aeronaut’s Windlass, first book in his new “The Cinder Spires” series, debuts strongly on four lists, ranking as high as #5 on the New York Times list.

And the first of a series of illustrated editions of the Harry Potter books, released last week, is selling strongly on the Amazon lists.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.18
WP
10.11
LAT
10.11
USAT
10.04
PW
10.12
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, The Heart Goes Last 10.05.15 / 2 15 ++ 45 ++ 20 ++ 40 -20
Butcher, The Aeronaut’s Windlass 10.12.15 / 1 5 ++ 7 ++ 7 ++ 7 ++
Dashner, The Death Cure 10.17.11 / 50 68 -21 x xxx..
Forstchen, One Year After 09.28.15 / 3 xx 134 -61 x
Gaiman/Riddell, The Sleeper and the Spindle 10.05.15 / 2 8 ++ x
Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 10.05.15 / 2 26 +1 20 ++ 11 -4
Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown (UK) 06.08.15 / 19 56 -25
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 3 11 ++ 15 -11 1 = 86 -44 x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) 10.12.15 / 1 5 ++ 2 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 2 1 +14 x x
Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights 09.21.15 / 4 x 2 + 9 -3 xxx x xx
Weir, The Martian 02.17.14 / 14 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. x 72 -38
Wendig, Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens 09.07.15 / 6 x xxx 18 -5 x 24 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Westerfeld/Lanagan, Zeroes 10.12.15 / 1 9 ++
Yancey, The 5th Wave 05.13.13 / 37 xxx.. xxx.. 125 -56 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 14 6 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.18
WP
10.11
LAT
10.11
USAT
10.04
PW
10.12
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 211 xx 112 +15 xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 41 12 = 8 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xx
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 80 xxx.. 76 -23 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner Series 09.29.14 / 34 136 -59 xxx.. xxx.. 93 -24
Dashner, The Scorch Trials [tpb] 11.10.14 / 47 xxx.. 56 -23 19 -6 xx
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 92 xxx.. 98 +31 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] 06.15.15 / 17 13 + xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 233 xxx.. xxx.. 13 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 32 xx xxx.. 14 +4
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 98 xx xx 46 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Weir, The Martian 08.31.15 / 7 1 +1 2 = 6 -5
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 49 1 = 1 = 1 = 3 -1 1 = 2 -1 8 -3 x
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 26 2 = 8 -1
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.18
WP
10.11
LAT
10.11
USAT
10.04
PW
10.12
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
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]