Weekly Bestsellers, 20 August
 Two genre titles debut in the top 10 of the New York Times fiction hardcover list: R.A. Salvatore’s Charon’s Claw (Wizards of the Coast), third book in his Forgotten Realms Neverwinter saga, at #4, and Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Time Untime (St. Martin’s), latest in her Dark-Hunters series, at #8. Lower down at #18 is a new Star Wars novel by Aaron Allston.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.26 |
WP 08.02 |
LAT 08.19 |
USAT 08.12 |
PW 08.13 |
Amz (08.20) |
UK: Amz UK (08.20) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.20) |
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| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| Hardcovers | ||||||||||
| Allston, Star Wars: X-Wing: Mercy Kill | 08.20.12 / 1 | 18 ++ | ||||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 159 | xxx.. | 16 -7 | 9 = | 17 +9 | xxx.. | 9 +2 | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 132 | 15 +3 | 6 +2 | 14 +4 | 53 -19 | 10 +2 | ||||
| Harkness, Shadow of Night | 07.02.12 / 8 | 14 -5 | [ 9 ] | 18 -14 | 35 -6 | [ 8 ] | xx | xxx | xx | |
| Kenyon, Time Untime | 08.20.12 / 1 | 8 ++ | 31 ++ | |||||||
| Koontz, Odd Apocalypse | 08.06.12 / 3 | 5 -3 | [ 3 ] | 5 ++ | 14 -9 | [ 2 ] | xx | |||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 77 | 12 -2 | [ 10 ] | xx | 51 -5 | 46 -12 | 19 -3 | 14 +1 | ||
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | 05.14.12 / 15 | 3 = | xxx.. | |||||||
| Roth, Insurgent | 05.07.12 / 16 | 1 = | 19 + | 61 -7 | xxx.. | xx | ||||
| Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: Charon’s Claw: Neverwinter Saga, Book III | 08.20.12 / 1 | 4 ++ | 55 ++ | 46 ++ | ||||||
| Walker, The Age of Miracles | 06.25.12 / 9 | 32 -10 | 11 +2 | xxx | [ 24 ] | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven | 07.23.12 / 5 | x | 14 +2 | xxx | xx | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.26 |
WP 08.02 |
LAT 08.19 |
USAT 08.12 |
PW 08.13 |
Amz (08.20) |
UK: Amz UK (08.20) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.20) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Andrews, Gunmetal Magic | 08.13.12 / 2 | x | 126 -96 | [ 19 ] | ||||||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 150 | 144 -3 | [ 13 ] | 65 -6 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Butcher, Ghost Story | 08.20.12 / 1 | 16 ++ | ||||||||
| Card, Ender’s Game | 07.05.11 / 31 | 19 +3 | xxx.. | 134 +4 | ||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 11 | 22 +14 | 36 -3 | |||||||
| Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 9 | 28 +15 | ||||||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 111 | xxx.. | x | 8 +4 | 8 +2 | 50 -23 | 19 +7 | |||
| Cronin, The Passage | 08.20.12 / 1 | 22 ++ | 136 ++ | |||||||
| Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | 04.09.12 / 20 | xx | 109 -20 | |||||||
| Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] | 01.09.12 / 20 | 17 -9 | x | 59 -9 | [ 16 ] | xxx.. | xxx | |||
| King, 11/22/63 [tpb] | 07.30.12 / 4 | 6 -1 | [ 9 ] | 14 ++ | 32 -5 | [ 5 ] | 107 -15 | xx | ||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 71 | 15 +2 | 12 = | 88 -24 | xxx.. | 84 -21 | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 79 | 17 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 40 +3 | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 51 | xxx.. | x | 80 -5 | ||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 75 | 7 +4 | 9 -3 | 47 -6 | xxx | 71 -16 | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 69 | 26 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 70 | 129 = | 47 -31 | xxx.. | 8 -3 | |||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 71 | 9 +3 | 13 +1 | 78 -22 | xxx.. | 33 -1 | xxx.. | |||
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] | 09.27.04 / 20 | 15 -5 | xxx.. | x | 54 +13 | xxx.. | ||||
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] | 07.09.12 / 7 | 7 -1 | 6 -1 | 68 -19 | [ 9 ] | xxx | xxx | x | ||
| Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] | 02.06.12 / 29 | 32 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 158 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 67 + | 88 + | |||||
| Tolkien, The Hobbit | 75 -17 | |||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 08.26 |
WP 08.02 |
LAT 08.19 |
USAT 08.12 |
PW 08.13 |
Amz (08.20) |
UK: Amz UK (08.20) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.20) |
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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] | ||||||||
