Weekly Bestsellers, 23 August
![]() 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] |