Weekly Bestsellers, 19 October 2015

Three titles debut prominently this week, beginning with George R.R. Martin’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Bantam), on four lists, ranking as high as #1 on the Washington Post list.

Brandon Sanderson’s Shadows of Self (Tor) is on three lists, ranking as high as #8 on the New York Times list.

And John Sandford & Ctein’s Saturn Run (Putnam) is on three lists, ranking as high as #12 on the Publishers Weekly list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.25
WP
10.18
LAT
10.18
USAT
10.11
PW
10.19
Amz
(10.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.19)
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 / 3 x 86 -41 x 45 -5
Butcher, The Aeronaut’s Windlass 10.12.15 / 2 16 -11 x 16 -9 15 -8
Dashner, The Death Cure 10.17.11 / 51 94 -26 xx xxx..
Forstchen, One Year After 09.28.15 / 4 xxx 133 +1 xx
Gaiman/Riddell, The Sleeper and the Spindle 10.05.15 / 3 8 = xx
Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 10.05.15 / 3 2 ++ 1 ++ 9 ++ 2 ++ 55 -29 34 -14 20 -9
Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here 10.19.15 / 1 2 ++
Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown (UK) 06.08.15 / 20 57 -1
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 4 16 -5 29 -14 4 -3 x xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) 10.12.15 / 2 10 -5 15 -13
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 3 7 ++ 3 ++ 13 -12 xx xx
Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights 09.21.15 / 5 xx x 9 = xxx.. xx xxx
Sanderson, Shadows of Self 10.19.15 / 1 8 ++ 42 ++ 10 ++
Sandford/Ctein, Saturn Run 10.19.15 / 1 13 ++ 51 ++ 12 ++
Westerfeld/Lanagan, Zeroes 10.12.15 / 2 10 -1
Yancey, The 5th Wave 05.13.13 / 38 xxx.. xxx.. 140 -15 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.25
WP
10.18
LAT
10.18
USAT
10.11
PW
10.19
Amz
(10.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.19)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 212 xxx 132 -20 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 42 15 -3 x xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 81 xxx.. 101 -25 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner Series 09.29.14 / 35 x xxx.. xxx.. 74 +19
Dashner, The Scorch Trials [tpb] 11.10.14 / 48 xxx.. 81 -25 24 -5 xxx
Leckie, Ancillary Mercy [tpb] 10.19.15 / 1 10 ++
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 93 xxx.. 146 -48 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 234 xxx.. xxx.. 11 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 33 xxx 15 ++ xxx.. 18 -4
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 99 xxx xxx 66 -20 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 37 + xxx..
Weir, The Martian 08.31.15 / 8 1 = 1 +1 3 +3
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 50 1 = 1 = 1 = 2 +1 1 = 1 +1 38 -30 xx
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 27 2 = 11 -3
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.25
WP
10.18
LAT
10.18
USAT
10.11
PW
10.19
Amz
(10.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.19)
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]