Weekly Bestsellers, 15 August 2016
 J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child remains #1 on four lists and debuts on two more lists at #1 and #3 this week.
Colson Whitehead’s literary alternate-reality novel The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) debuts strongly on four print lists, ranking as high as #2 at Washington Post. Two other debuts this week: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dragonmark (St. Martin’s) on three lists, and Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston’s The Swarm (Tor) on two lists.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.21 |
WP 08.14 |
LAT 08.14 |
USAT 08.07 |
PW 08.15 |
Amz (08.15) |
UK: Amz UK (08.15) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.15) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Card/Johnston, The Swarm | 08.15.16 / 1 | 115 ++ | 24 ++ | ||||||
| Clare, Lady Midnight | 03.21.16 / 22 | 1 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Crouch, Dark Matter | 08.01.16 / 3 | 15 -1 | 46 -20 | 16 -2 | xx | ||||
| Kenyon, Dragonmark | 08.15.16 / 1 | 12 ++ | 20 ++ | 14 ++ | |||||
| King, End of Watch | 05.23.16 / 13 | 16 -6 | xxx | xxx.. | 78 -32 | 12 -4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx |
| Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury | 05.09.16 / 15 | 4 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Riggs, Library of Souls | 09.28.15 / 44 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 17 -1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | 02.15.16 / 27 | 3 ++ | 1 = | 1 ++ | 1 = | 1 = | 1 = | ||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) | 10.12.15 / 34 | 89 -4 | x | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition | 10.05.15 / 46 | 58 +85 | 2 +11 | x | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard | 08.05.08 / 37 | 69 + | xx | ||||||
| Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) | 08.05.08 / 39 | 30 -14 | x | ||||||
| Whitehead, The Underground Railroad | 08.08.16 / 2 | 4 ++ | 2 ++ | 10 ++ | 3 ++ | 7 -4 | 39 +4 | ||
| Winters, Underground Airlines | 07.18.16 / 2 | xxx.. | 16 ++ | ||||||
| Yancey, The Infinite Sea | 09.29.14 / 54 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 22 -4 | xxx.. | ||||
| Yancey, The Last Star | 06.06.16 / 11 | xx | 11 -2 | xxx.. | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.21 |
WP 08.14 |
LAT 08.14 |
USAT 08.07 |
PW 08.15 |
Amz (08.15) |
UK: Amz UK (08.15) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.15) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 227 | xx | 75 -7 | xxx.. | 25 +9 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Gaiman, American Gods [tpb] | 03.24.14 / 5 | 14 ++ | xxx.. | xx | |||||
| King, Doctor Sleep | 08.08.16 / 2 | 10 +4 | 13 +6 | ||||||
| Lowry, The Giver | 09.02.13 / 98 | xxx.. | 108 +36 | xxx.. | 99 -1 | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 257 | xx | xxx.. | 8 +5 | x | xxx.. | xxx.. | 79 -46 | xxx.. |
| Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set | 03.31.14 / 102 | xxx | xx | xxx.. | 29 -6 | ||||
| Mitchell, Slade House [tpb] | 08.15.16 / 1 | 95 ++ | |||||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 269 | xxx.. | 120 +4 | 60 +5 | 38 +28 | x | |||
| Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] | 03.09.15 / 63 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 110 +39 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] | 06.17.13 / 138 | xxx.. | 10 = | 19 +1 | 3 + | xx | 73 + | xx | |
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) | 48 -16 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 33 +33 | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) | 07.22.08 / 12 | 68 +12 | |||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [tpb] | 06.30.09 / 51 | xxx.. | 117 +23 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK) | 65 -12 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] | 08.11.02 / 179 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 85 +41 | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] | 07.25.06 / 94 | 137 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) [tpb] | 06.27.06 / 21 | 57 +13 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] | 07.05.04 / 148 | xxx.. | 119 +28 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 60 -11 | |||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) | 22 -1 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) | 52 -8 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] | 06.17.01 / 204 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 63 +39 | xxx.. | ||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 14 +4 | 55 +23 | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] | 03.23.15 / 34 | 18 -3 | 58 -37 | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] | 06.08.15 / 17 | 138 + | 45 +23 | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages (UK) | 07.06.03 / 4 | 84 -15 | |||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.21 |
WP 08.14 |
LAT 08.14 |
USAT 08.07 |
PW 08.15 |
Amz (08.15) |
UK: Amz UK (08.15) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.15) |
| 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] | |||||||
