Weekly Bestsellers, 18 June
 Several debuts this week, beginning with Laurell K. Hamilton’s Kiss the Dead (Berkley), 26th in her Anita Blake, vampire hunter series, ranking #1 this week on three lists — New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly.
Others include John Scalzi’s Redshirts (Tor), coming in #15 on the NYT list and a notch below that on the PW; titles by Davidson, Flint, and Lackey, coming in near the bottom of the NYT list; and the trade paperback reprint of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (Broadway), #19 on the NYT list.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 06.24 |
WP 06.17 |
LAT 06.17 |
USAT 06.10 |
PW 06.18 |
Amz (06.18) |
UK: Amz UK (06.18) |
Canada: Amz.ca (06.18) |
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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 | ||||||||||
| Clare, City of Lost Souls | 05.14.12 / 6 | 48 -18 | xx | xxx | xxx.. | xx | ||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 150 | xxx.. | 3 = | 5 = | 11 +1 | 19 = | 11 +3 | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 123 | 7 -3 | 4 = | 8 +2 | 25 -2 | 6 +7 | ||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games | 10.07.08 / 143 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 9 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Davidson, Undead and Unstable | 06.18.12 / 1 | 29 ++ | 146 ++ | |||||||
| Flint/Huff, 1636: The Kremlin Games | 06.18.12 / 1 | 30 ++ | ||||||||
| Grahame-Smith, Unholy Night | 04.23.12 / 6 | xxx.. | 16 + | xx | ||||||
| Hamilton, Kiss the Dead | 06.18.12 / 1 | 1 ++ | 1 ++ | 8 ++ | 1 ++ | |||||
| Harris, Deadlocked | 03.12.12 / 15 | 10 -5 | x | 20 -9 | 43 -16 | 11 + | x | x | x | |
| King, 11/22/63 | 03.08.11 / 43 | 35 -12 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| King, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole | 02.27.12 / 15 | 14 -3 | xxx.. | xx | 84 -15 | 12 + | xx | xxx.. | 86 -20 | |
| Lackey, Home from the Sea | 06.18.12 / 1 | 33 ++ | ||||||||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 68 | 9 = | xxx.. | 19 + | 61 -5 | 13 + | 39 +2 | 27 -12 | 12 -4 | |
| Moore, Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art | 04.09.12 / 11 | x | xxx.. | 12 = | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Pratchett/Baxter, The Long Earth (UK) | 06.04.12 / 3 | 12 -5 | ||||||||
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | 05.14.12 / 6 | 4 = | 127 -11 | 14 + | ||||||
| Roth, Insurgent | 05.07.12 / 7 | 1 +1 | 17 + | 45 -11 | 7 + | 66 -11 | 28 +10 | |||
| Scalzi, Redshirts | 06.18.12 / 1 | 15 ++ | 55 ++ | 16 ++ | ||||||
| Scott, The Enchantress | 05.28.12 / 4 | 15 ++ | 85 -30 | 10 + | xx | xxx | ||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 06.24 |
WP 06.17 |
LAT 06.17 |
USAT 06.10 |
PW 06.18 |
Amz (06.18) |
UK: Amz UK (06.18) |
Canada: Amz.ca (06.18) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 141 | 86 + | 18 ++ | 23 +13 | 61 -9 | xxx.. | ||||
| Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 52 | 30 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Card, Ender’s Game | 07.05.11 / 22 | 26 -5 | xxx.. | 133 -12 | ||||||
| Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] | 06.18.12 / 1 | 19 ++ | ||||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 3 | 19 + | 72 +6 | |||||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 102 | xxx.. | 6 -1 | 6 = | 9 +2 | 15 +11 | 19 +18 | |||
| Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | 04.09.12 / 11 | 13 +2 | 16 +9 | 14 + | ||||||
| Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [tpb] | 05.03.11 / 21 | 5 +1 | 11 -1 | xxx.. | 13 + | 91 ++ | ||||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 62 | 7 +2 | xxx.. | 13 -1 | 51 -7 | xx | xxx.. | 29 -5 | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 70 | 18 -5 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | 30 -2 | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 42 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 68 -6 | ||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 66 | 1 +2 | 4 +2 | 7 = | 13 +10 | xxx | xxx.. | 39 -21 | x | |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 60 | 9 +2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xx | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 61 | xxx.. | 31 +15 | 5 +1 | xxx.. | 5 -1 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 62 | 8 -1 | 14 +1 | 32 +13 | xxx | xx | 14 -4 | 69 + | ||
| Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] | 02.06.12 / 20 | 24 -2 | xxx.. | 10 + | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | |||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 150 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 56 + | xxx.. | |||||
| Pratchett, Snuff (UK) | 06.11.12 / 2 | 32 -19 | ||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 06.24 |
WP 06.17 |
LAT 06.17 |
USAT 06.10 |
PW 06.18 |
Amz (06.18) |
UK: Amz UK (06.18) |
Canada: Amz.ca (06.18) |
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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] | ||||||||
