Weekly Bestsellers, 25 January 2016

Alan Dean Foster’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens slips on four print lists this week, but still ranks among the top 5 on three of them.

(Note that this page is not compiling the various other tie-in volumes to the new Star Wars movie, nor the various coloring books associated with Harry Potter, A Game of Thrones, et al.)

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.31
WP
01.24
LAT
01.24
USAT
01.17
PW
01.25
Amz
(01.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.25)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Foster, Star Wars: The Force Awakens 01.18.16 / 2 2 -1 3 -2 19 -8 4 -3 x
King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams 11.02.15 / 13 12 -4 x 15 +3 x 11 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, Ashley Bell 12.21.15 / 6 17 -2 108 -26 15 -3
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 18 xxx.. xx 14 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) 10.12.15 / 16 92 -1 xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 17 109 + 6 +14 90 -3 xxx.. xxx..
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 25 2 = 39 -4 5 +1 87 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.31
WP
01.24
LAT
01.24
USAT
01.17
PW
01.25
Amz
(01.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.25)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Clare, City of Bones [tpb] 04.08.08 / 93 xxx.. xxx.. 12 +11 xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 56 12 +1 xxx 14 + xx xxx.. xxx..
Dick, The Man in the High Castle [tpb] 10.26.15 / 11 8 -1 xxx x 140 -34 xxx 70 +
Ishiguro, The Buried Giant [tpb] 01.25.16 / 1 3 ++
King, Mr. Mercedes 01.11.16 / 3 5 +1 x 7 =
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 240 xxx xxx.. 10 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 244 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 89 +
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 45 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 20 -1
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 113 xxx.. xxx.. 81 -30 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [tpb] 09.16.13 / 9 x 8 +6 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 81 +6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 75 -5 xxx..
Weir, The Martian 08.31.15 / 22 8 +2 17 + 85 +2 44 -16
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 64 2 = 3 -1 2 -1 12 -5 xx 37 -13 xxx.. xxx..
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 41 1 = 8 = 6 = 2 = 58 +37
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.31
WP
01.24
LAT
01.24
USAT
01.17
PW
01.25
Amz
(01.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.25)
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]