Weekly Bestsellers, 30 July

Debuting this week is Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston’s Earth Unaware (Tor), a prequel to Ender’s Game and first of a new “Formic Wars” trilogy, ranking #14 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, #17 on the same list at Publishers Weekly, and #88 on the combined USA Today list.

Also notable this week is the reappearance of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, in trade paperback, ranking as high as #8 today on Amazon.com, presumably in response to the widely circulated trailer for the film this past week, which stars Tom Hanks and is written for the screen and directed by Tom Tykwer and Lana & Andy Wachowski.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.05
WP
07.15
LAT
07.29
USAT
07.22
PW
07.30
Amz
(07.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.30)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Card/Johnston, Earth Unaware 07.30.12 / 1 14 ++ 88 ++ 17 ++
Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln 07.23.12 / 2 23 +4
Clare, City of Lost Souls 05.14.12 / 12 117 -19 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 156 xxx.. 12 -3 8 +2 xx 28 -7 xxx.. 13 +1
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 129 10 -2 7 -2 xx 20 -6 16 -7 12 =
Harkness, Shadow of Night 07.02.12 / 5 4 -3 2 + 15 -11 4 -3 39 -21 88 -27 23 -15
Harris, Deadlocked 03.12.12 / 21 26 -4 xxx.. x xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole 02.27.12 / 21 35 -2 xxx.. xxx xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 74 8 = [ 6 ] 13 +1 43 +1 10 -1 36 -1 21 -1 9 +4
Pratchett/Baxter, The Long Earth (UK) 06.04.12 / 9 119 -51 xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 12 4 +1 xxx xxx..
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 13 2 -1 15 +1 45 -5 xx x 54 +28
Walker, The Age of Miracles 06.25.12 / 6 17 = [ 10 ] 6 = 124 -31 20 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven 07.23.12 / 2 20 ++ 8 ++ 22 -12 90 ++ 51 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.05
WP
07.15
LAT
07.29
USAT
07.22
PW
07.30
Amz
(07.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.30)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 147 142 -37 13 = 51 +19 xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 28 18 -5 xxx.. 123 +1
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 7 28 +1
Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] 06.04.12 / 8 xxx.. 45 -23 18 -8
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 6 xxx.. 58 -28
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 108 xxx.. x 10 +2 xxx.. 12 -1 17 -2 22 +14
Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 04.09.12 / 17 29 -14 33 -9 22 -5
Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [tpb] 05.03.11 / 27 18 -1 xxx xxx.. xx xxx..
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 17 6 +1 12 + 34 -4 12 = x 29 +14
King, 11/22/63 [tpb] 07.30.12 / 1 66 ++
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 68 9 = 10 +3 50 +3 xxx.. xxx.. 50 +5 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 76 11 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 31 = xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] 07.26.11 / 48 xxx.. xxx.. 61 -6
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 72 4 +1 9 = 25 +1 xxx.. 98 -9 46 -1 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 66 21 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 67 90 -22 53 -30 xxx.. 6 -1
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 68 8 = 15 -1 47 -2 xxx.. xxx.. 36 -7 xxx
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.15.05 / 20 32 + 36 ++
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 17 xxx.. xxx.. 8 + xxx..
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 4 5 = [ 9 ] 5 +2 37 -4 7 -1 88 -16 85 -20 35 -8
Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] 02.06.12 / 26 19 +4 xxx.. xxx.. 24 -1 xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 156 xxx.. xxx.. 53 +7 xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit 76 -5 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.05
WP
07.15
LAT
07.29
USAT
07.22
PW
07.30
Amz
(07.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.30)
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]