Weekly Bestsellers, 17 October
 Three debuts this week, beginning with R.A. Salvatore’s latest volume in his Neverwinter Saga, Neverwinter (Wizards of the Coast, following last year’s Gauntlgrym), ranking #4 on both the NY Times and Publishers Weekly fiction hardcover lists.
Second is Mercedes Lackey’s Changes (DAW), third volume in her “Collegium Chronicles”, ranking #21 on both the NYT and PW lists. Third: Taylor Anderson’s Firestorm (Roc), sixth in his “Destroyermen” series, coming in 25th on the NYT list and near the end of the USA Today list. In paperback, the mass market reprint of Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson’s Towers of Midnight (Tor) debuts in 11th place on both the NYT and PW lists.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.23 |
WP 10.16 |
LAT 10.16 |
USAT 10.09 |
PW 10.17 |
Amz (10.17) |
UK: Amz UK (10.17) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.17) |
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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 | ||||||||||
| Anderson, Destroyermen: Firestorm | 10.17.11 / 1 | 25 ++ | 143 ++ | |||||||
| Cline, Ready Player One | 09.06.11 / 6 | xxx.. | 16 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 115 | xxx.. | 19 -1 | 12 -2 | 18 -2 | xxx.. | xx | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 88 | 20 -1 | 16 -5 | 16 -3 | xxx.. | xx | ||||
| Dashner, The Death Cure | 10.17.11 / 1 | 59 ++ | ||||||||
| King, 11/22/63 | 03.08.11 / 8 | 65 +50 | ||||||||
| Kirkman/Bonansinga, The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor | 10.17.11 / 1 | 40 ++ | ||||||||
| Lackey, Changes | 10.17.11 / 1 | 21 ++ | 21 ++ | |||||||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 33 | 8 = | 7 = | 11 +1 | 54 -6 | 9 -1 | 32 -3 | 33 +2 | 14 = | |
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus | 09.26.11 / 4 | 5 -1 | 6 -1 | 2 -1 | 37 -13 | 6 -1 | 38 +1 | x | 11 +4 | |
| Murakami, 1Q84 | 10.17.11 / 1 | 12 ++ | 2 ++ | 12 ++ | ||||||
| Paolini, Inheritance | 03.29.11 / 30 | 6 +1 | 20 +6 | 2 +10 | ||||||
| Pratchett, Snuff | 09.13.11 / 4 | 62 -25 | ||||||||
| Pratchett, Snuff (UK) | 05.17.11 / 22 | 4 -1 | ||||||||
| Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: Neverwinter: Neverwinter Saga, Book II | 10.17.11 / 1 | 4 ++ | 56 ++ | 4 ++ | ||||||
| Stephenson, Reamde | 09.06.11 / 7 | 22 -10 | x | 6 -3 | x | 24 -13 | 160 -58 | xxx.. | xx | |
| Whitehead, Zone One | 10.17.11 / 1 | 64 ++ | ||||||||
| King, Mile 81 | 09.13.11 / 6 | 111 -43 | ||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.23 |
WP 10.16 |
LAT 10.16 |
USAT 10.09 |
PW 10.17 |
Amz (10.17) |
UK: Amz UK (10.17) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.17) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 36 | xxx | 117 + | xxx.. | ||||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 67 | xxx.. | 2 +3 | 8 -4 | 8 +2 | xxx.. | 53 + | |||
| Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 29 | 16 -1 | xxx.. | 4 -2 | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Jordan/Sanderson, Towers of Midnight | 10.17.11 / 1 | 11 ++ | 11 ++ | |||||||
| King, Full Dark, No Stars | 10.03.11 / 3 | 12 -7 | 55 -3 | 10 -7 | ||||||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 27 | 19 +3 | xxx.. | 13 -6 | 72 -19 | 19 +1 | xxx.. | 39 +38 | x | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings [tpb] | 05.24.11 / 21 | 29 -5 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 35 | 23 +2 | x | 77 -14 | 25 -2 | xxx.. | 32 +26 | x | ||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 12 | 32 -3 | ||||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 31 | 10 +6 | xxx.. | 9 +1 | 52 -6 | 12 +3 | xxx.. | x | ||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 28 | 35 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 26 | xxx.. | 109 -18 | 19 -2 | 121 -61 | 6 +7 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 27 | 17 = | 11 -2 | 73 -15 | 17 -3 | xxx.. | 37 +17 | x | ||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 10.23 |
WP 10.16 |
LAT 10.16 |
USAT 10.09 |
PW 10.17 |
Amz (10.17) |
UK: Amz UK (10.17) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.17) |
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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] | ||||||||
