Weekly Bestsellers, 23 August
 George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons is back in the #1 position this week on four of the five print lists compiled.
Debuting this week is Lev Grossman’s The Magician King (Viking), on four lists, as high as 4th place at Washington Post. Other debuts this week include a new Star Wars novel by Christie Golden, Fate of the Jedi: Ascension, ranking #7 on two lists; the 10th anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, on the Washington Post list only at #5; and Joan D. Vinge’s novelization Cowboys & Aliens on two lists.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.28 |
WP 08.21 |
LAT 08.21 |
USAT 08.14 |
PW 08.22 |
Amz (08.23) |
UK: Amz UK (08.23) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.23) |
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| align=right> Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×5 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| colspan=10> Hardcovers | ||||||||||
| Butcher, Ghost Story | 06.28.11 / 9 | 6 -1 | x | 16 -14 | 65 -30 | 5 = | x | x | ||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 107 | xxx.. | 13 -5 | 6 +1 | x | 68 -13 | 59 +12 | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 80 | 18 -9 | 8 +1 | x | 67 -19 | 37 +6 | ||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games | 10.07.08 / 134 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 16 +5 | |||
| Duncan, The Last Werewolf | 07.26.11 / 5 | xx | 7 +3 | xxx | ||||||
| Gaiman, American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition | 08.23.11 / 1 | 5 ++ | ||||||||
| Golden, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension | 08.23.11 / 1 | 7 ++ | 57 ++ | 7 ++ | ||||||
| Grossman, The Magician King | 08.09.11 / 3 | 8 ++ | 4 ++ | 53 ++ | 9 ++ | x | ||||
| Kenyon, Retribution | 08.16.11 / 2 | 10 -6 | x | 52 -40 | 11 -7 | |||||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 25 | 1 +1 | 1 +2 | 1 = | 22 -5 | 1 +1 | x | 9 +6 | 3 = | |
| Paolini, Inheritance | 03.29.11 / 22 | x | 35 +4 | 27 -4 | ||||||
| Pratchett, Snuff (UK) | 05.17.11 / 14 | 24 -1 | ||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.28 |
WP 08.21 |
LAT 08.21 |
USAT 08.14 |
PW 08.22 |
Amz (08.23) |
UK: Amz UK (08.23) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.23) |
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| colspan=10> Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 134 | 95 +23 | x | xxx.. | ||||||
| Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 31 | 31 + | 59 -22 | |||||||
| Card, Ender’s Game | 07.05.11 / 8 | 20 +10 | xxx.. | |||||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 59 | xxx.. | 7 -5 | 3 +2 | x | 66 -12 | xxx.. | |||
| Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 21 | 13 -2 | xxx.. | 3 +2 | 146 -8 | 21 -5 | x | xxx | xxx.. | |
| Harris, Dead Until Dark | 09.16.08 / 93 | 35 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 19 | 6 -2 | 6 = | xxx.. | 23 +2 | 5 -1 | xxx | 37 -32 | 36 +4 | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings [tpb] | 05.24.11 / 13 | 23 +3 | 6 +3 | xx | xxx.. | |||||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 27 | 9 +2 | xxx | 41 +6 | 12 -1 | xxx.. | 46 -33 | 40 +22 | ||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 4 | 29 +3 | ||||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 23 | 2 = | 5 -1 | 4 = | 20 -4 | 3 -1 | 10 -3 | 41 -21 | ||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 20 | 9 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 16 -1 | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 18 | xxx.. | 37 -1 | x | 93 -36 | 2 = | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 19 | 5 +2 | 12 -1 | 33 +5 | 6 +1 | xxx.. | 27 -17 | xxx | ||
| Meyer, Breaking Dawn [tpb] | 07.27.10 / 54 | xxx.. | 128 -19 | xxx.. | 22 +34 | |||||
| Meyer, Eclipse (UK) | 01.13.09 / 105 | 52 + | xxx.. | |||||||
| Meyer, New Moon (UK) | 01.13.09 / 98 | 50 + | xxx.. | |||||||
| Meyer, The Host | 08.16.11 / 2 | 25 +1 | x | 23 ++ | ||||||
| Meyer, Twilight (UK) | 01.13.09 / 108 | 38 +60 | xxx.. | |||||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 141 | 140 +3 | xxx.. | 77 -25 | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) | 107 -63 | |||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 148 -17 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [tpb] | 06.30.09 / 49 | xxx.. | 131 -15 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (CANADA) | 07.19.11 / 6 | 43 -10 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] | xxx.. | 13 +2 | 94 -13 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Vinge, Cowboys & Aliens | 08.23.11 / 1 | 28 ++ | 124 ++ | |||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.28 |
WP 08.21 |
LAT 08.21 |
USAT 08.14 |
PW 08.22 |
Amz (08.23) |
UK: Amz UK (08.23) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.23) |
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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] | ||||||||
