Weekly Bestsellers, 13 February
 Robert Harris’ financial thriller The Fear Index (Knopf), about an Artificial Intelligence developed to predict market activity, is the notable debut on lists this week, ranking as high as #10 among fiction hardcovers on the Washington Post list, #11 at Publishers Weekly, #12 at NY Times.
Two mass market paperbacks debut on the NYT list: the reprint of Patricia Brigg’s River Marked (Ace), and gaming tie Mass Effect: Deception by William C. Dietz (Del Rey).
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 02.19 |
WP 02.12 |
LAT 02.12 |
USAT 02.05 |
PW 02.13 |
Amz (02.13) |
UK: Amz UK (02.13) |
Canada: Amz.ca (02.13) |
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| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×3 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| Hardcovers | ||||||||||
| Card, Shadows in Flight | 01.30.12 / 3 | 27 -1 | xx | xx | xx | |||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 132 | xxx.. | 4 +9 | 2 = | 1 +1 | 32 +11 | 17 -3 | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 105 | 9 = | 3 = | 2 +1 | 33 +13 | 19 -10 | ||||
| Esslemont, Orb Sceptre Throne (UK) | 02.13.12 / 1 | 73 ++ | ||||||||
| Feist, A Crown Imperilled (UK) | 02.13.12 / 1 | 81 ++ | ||||||||
| Harris, The Fear Index | 02.06.12 / 2 | 12 ++ | 10 ++ | 99 ++ | 11 ++ | x | ||||
| King, 11/22/63 | 03.08.11 / 25 | 6 -1 | 8 -1 | x | 25 -2 | 7 -1 | 30 -7 | xxx.. | ||
| Koontz, 77 Shadow Street | 01.09.12 / 6 | 22 -1 | xxx.. | 92 -18 | 22 = | |||||
| Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis | 01.23.12 / 4 | 18 -1 | x | 17 -1 | ||||||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 50 | 11 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 74 +3 | 12 -1 | 40 +3 | 39 +34 | 30 -11 | |
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus | 09.26.11 / 21 | 23 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | 138 -28 | 24 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | |
| Murakami, 1Q84 | 10.17.11 / 18 | 35 -1 | xxx.. | 16 -6 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 56 +22 | |
| Paolini, Inheritance | 03.29.11 / 47 | xxx | 48 +1 | 48 -7 | xxx.. | x | ||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 02.19 |
WP 02.12 |
LAT 02.12 |
USAT 02.05 |
PW 02.13 |
Amz (02.13) |
UK: Amz UK (02.13) |
Canada: Amz.ca (02.13) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Briggs, River Marked | 02.13.12 / 1 | 17 ++ | ||||||||
| Cast/Cast, Destined [tpb] | 10.31.11 / 16 | 144 -13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 84 | xxx.. | 1 +1 | 1 = | 4 -3 | 25 +5 | 1 +15 | |||
| Dietz, Mass Effect: Deception | 02.13.12 / 1 | 26 ++ | ||||||||
| Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 46 | 20 -2 | xxx.. | 5 +3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] | 01.09.12 / 6 | 13 -2 | xxx.. | 108 -27 | 21 -1 | |||||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 44 | 25 -8 | xxx.. | x | 86 = | 21 -5 | xxx.. | 89 -18 | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings [tpb] | 05.24.11 / 35 | 32 +2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 52 | 31 -9 | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | 69 -14 | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 24 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 129 -15 | ||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 48 | 21 -11 | xxx.. | 11 +2 | 70 = | 23 -15 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 42 | 30 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 43 | xxx.. | 148 + | 24 +29 | xxx.. | 13 -3 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 44 | 22 -9 | xxx.. | 112 -5 | 24 -10 | xxx.. | 85 -24 | xxx.. | ||
| Meyer, Breaking Dawn | 11.21.11 / 13 | 137 -1 | ||||||||
| Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] | 02.06.12 / 2 | 4 = | 7 -2 | 2 -1 | 64 -5 | 6 = | 56 -9 | |||
| Russell, Swamplandia! [tpb] | 12.26.11 / 8 | 35 -5 | xxx | xxx.. | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 02.19 |
WP 02.12 |
LAT 02.12 |
USAT 02.05 |
PW 02.13 |
Amz (02.13) |
UK: Amz UK (02.13) |
Canada: Amz.ca (02.13) |
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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] | ||||||||
