Weekly Bestsellers, 9 Aug
 Jim Butcher’s Ghost Story (Roc) knocks Martin’s A Dance with Dragons out of first place on three print lists this week, leaving Martin at the top only on the typically last updated LA Times list. Butcher also debuts on the USA Today at #3.
Also debuting this week is Kelley Armstrong’s Spell Bound (Dutton), coming in 19th on the NYT list, 21st at PW, and further down at USA Today. |
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.14 |
WP 08.07 |
LAT 08.07 |
USAT 07.31 |
PW 08.08 |
Amz (08.09) |
UK: Amz UK (08.09) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.09) |
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| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×5 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| Hardcovers | ||||||||||
| Armstrong, Spell Bound | 08.09.11 / 1 | 19 ++ | 116 ++ | 21 ++ | ||||||
| Butcher, Ghost Story | 06.28.11 / 7 | 1 ++ | 1 ++ | 3 ++ | 1 ++ | 52 -33 | 38 -15 | |||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 105 | xxx.. | 6 +6 | 10 +1 | 8 = | 47 +5 | 39 + | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 78 | 8 +1 | 11 +1 | 6 +1 | 51 +8 | 40 +19 | ||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games | 10.07.08 / 132 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 18 +38 | |||
| Duncan, The Last Werewolf | 07.26.11 / 3 | 29 -4 | 4 +3 | x | ||||||
| Grossman, The Magician King | 08.09.11 / 1 | 51 ++ | ||||||||
| Harris, Dead Reckoning | 12.28.10 / 33 | 23 -2 | xxx.. | xx | 106 -27 | 23 -2 | xx | xxx.. | x | |
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 23 | 2 -1 | 2 = | 1 = | 12 -5 | 2 -1 | 13 -4 | 18 -7 | 3 = | |
| Paolini, Inheritance | 03.29.11 / 20 | 24 +12 | 44 ++ | 22 -5 | ||||||
| Pratchett, Snuff (UK) | 05.17.11 / 12 | 40 -4 | ||||||||
| Zahn, Star Wars: Choices of One | 08.02.11 / 2 | 26 -9 | x | x | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.14 |
WP 08.07 |
LAT 08.07 |
USAT 07.31 |
PW 08.08 |
Amz (08.09) |
UK: Amz UK (08.09) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.09) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Austen/Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [tpb] | 02.10.09 / 61 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 99 -41 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 132 | 122 -17 | 77 -15 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Card, Ender’s Game | 07.05.11 / 6 | 33 -11 | xx | |||||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 57 | xxx.. | 4 +2 | 4 +1 | 3 +1 | 43 +6 | xxx.. | |||
| Correia, Monster Hunter Alpha | 08.09.11 / 1 | 23 ++ | 23 ++ | |||||||
| Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 19 | 7 +3 | xxx.. | 2 +1 | 87 +21 | 10 +6 | 67 -20 | x | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 17 | 3 +1 | 4 +1 | xxx.. | 21 = | 3 = | x | 7 -1 | 11 +13 | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings [tpb] | 05.24.11 / 11 | 13 +2 | 8 -1 | 21 +4 | xxx.. | |||||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 25 | 12 -2 | x | 43 +4 | 11 -3 | xxx.. | 19 -5 | 98 -26 | ||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 2 | 33 + | ||||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 21 | 2 = | 3 = | 7 -5 | 13 = | 2 = | 9 -5 | 9 +17 | ||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 18 | 9 -2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 14 -13 | xx | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 16 | xxx.. | 37 -10 | 4 -1 | 38 + | 2 -1 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 17 | 7 = | 10 -1 | 32 +7 | 5 +1 | xxx.. | 11 +1 | x | ||
| Meyer, Breaking Dawn [tpb] | 07.27.10 / 52 | xxx.. | 132 = | xxx.. | ||||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 139 | 98 +29 | xxx.. | 53 +14 | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) | 49 +5 | |||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 64 +2 | xx | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [tpb] | 06.30.09 / 47 | xxx.. | 56 -4 | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] | 08.11.02 / 176 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 103 -5 | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] | 07.25.06 / 93 | 101 +2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] | 07.05.04 / 145 | xxx.. | 102 +11 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (CANADA) | 07.19.11 / 4 | 29 -7 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) | 68 +4 | |||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] | 06.17.01 / 200 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 85 -4 | xx | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] | xxx.. | 11 + | 35 -6 | xx | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.14 |
WP 08.07 |
LAT 08.07 |
USAT 07.31 |
PW 08.08 |
Amz (08.09) |
UK: Amz UK (08.09) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.09) |
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| 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] | ||||||||
