Weekly Bestsellers, 26 September
 Two notable debuts this week. First, Erin Morgenstern’s literary fantasy The Night Circus (Doubleday), ranking on four print lists this week, as high as #2 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly.
Second, David Weber’s How Firm a Foundation (Tor), latest in his Safehold series, ranking as high as #5 on the Washington Post list, #8 at NYT, #9 at PW. Note: with this post the weekly bestsellers pages move to Mondays.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.02 |
WP 09.25 |
LAT 09.25 |
USAT 09.18 |
PW 09.26 |
Amz (09.26) |
UK: Amz UK (09.26) |
Canada: Amz.ca (09.26) |
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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 | ||||||||||
| Brooks, The Measure of the Magic | 09.06.11 / 4 | 33 -14 | xxx | xxx | x | |||||
| Butcher, Ghost Story | 06.28.11 / 13x | x | xxx.. | xxx | xxx | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Cline, Ready Player One | 09.06.11 / 4 | xx | 12 -3 | xxx | xxx | |||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 112 | xxx.. | 5 +3 | 9 -2 | 16 +1 | x | xxx.. | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 85 | 7 -1 | 10 -1 | 13 = | x | x | ||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games | 10.07.08 / 139 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | 97 -67 | ||
| Goodkind, The Omen Machine | 08.30.11 / 5 | 22 -5 | xxx.. | xxx | 21 -4 | |||||
| Grossman, The Magician King | 08.09.11 / 8 | xx | xxx.. | 17 -3 | xxx | xx | xxx.. | |||
| Harris, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion | 09.13.11 / 3 | 23 -9 | xx | x | x | 23 -11 | ||||
| King, 11/22/63 | 03.08.11 / 5 | 98 + | ||||||||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 30 | 7 -3 | 7 -3 | 16 -11 | 36 +3 | 6 -2 | 22 +8 | 48 -13 | 4 +3 | |
| Millhauser, We Others: New and Selected Stories | 09.13.11 / 2 | 20 + | ||||||||
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus | 09.26.11 / 1 | 2 ++ | 3 ++ | 11 ++ | 2 ++ | 17 ++ | 58 ++ | 3 ++ | ||
| Paolini, Inheritance | 03.29.11 / 27 | 6 +4 | 19 +26 | 9 -5 | ||||||
| Pratchett, Snuff (UK) | 05.17.11 / 19 | 14 -3 | ||||||||
| Stephenson, Reamde | 09.06.11 / 4 | 36 -16 | x | 54 -41 | ||||||
| Stirling, The Tears of the Sun | 09.20.11 / 1x | x | x | |||||||
| Weber, How Firm a Foundation | 09.26.11 / 1 | 8 ++ | 5 ++ | 51 ++ | 9 ++ | |||||
| Westerfeld, Goliath | 09.20.11 / 2 | x | 85 ++ | |||||||
| King, Mile 81 | 09.13.11 / 3 | 31 -10 | ||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.02 |
WP 09.25 |
LAT 09.25 |
USAT 09.18 |
PW 09.26 |
Amz (09.26) |
UK: Amz UK (09.26) |
Canada: Amz.ca (09.26) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 139 | 144 -9 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||||
| Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 35 | 14 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 64 | xxx.. | 3 +2 | 4 -1 | 7 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 26 | 12 = | xxx.. | 2 -1 | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Frost, One Grave at a Time | 09.20.11 / 2 | x | 134 -58 | x | ||||||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 24 | 11 +1 | xxx | xxx.. | 40 +2 | 10 +3 | xxx.. | 47 +14 | 44 +5 | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings [tpb] | 05.24.11 / 18 | 24 -1 | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 32 | 14 +4 | xxx | 53 +4 | 16 +1 | xxx.. | 49 -5 | xxx | ||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 9 | 31 -1 | ||||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 28 | 6 +2 | xxx | 11 -5 | 32 = | 9 -2 | xx | 40 +11 | ||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 25 | 23 -4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 23 | xxx.. | 72 -3 | 12 +2 | 42 + | 6 -3 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 24 | 10 +1 | 10 +1 | 46 +3 | 8 +7 | xxx.. | 39 = | xxx | ||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 146 | xxx | xxx.. | 87 -16 | xx | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) | x | |||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.02 |
WP 09.25 |
LAT 09.25 |
USAT 09.18 |
PW 09.26 |
Amz (09.26) |
UK: Amz UK (09.26) |
Canada: Amz.ca (09.26) |
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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] | ||||||||
