Weekly Bestsellers, 17 September

Three notable debuts this week: ranking highest, S.M. Stirling’s Lord of Mountains (Roc), #13 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, #16 at Publishers Weekly; then Kevin J. Anderson’s Clockwork Angels (ECW Press), #18 at NYT and #14 at PW; and Seanan McGurie’s Ashes of Honor (DAW), #16 on NYT‘s mass market paperback list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.23
WP
09.16
LAT
09.16
USAT
09.09
PW
09.17
Amz
(09.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.17)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aguirre, Outpost 09.17.12 / 1 134 ++
Anderson, Clockwork Angels 09.17.12 / 1 18 ++ 14 ++ 31 ++
Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata (UK) 09.10.12 / 2 83 -11
Brooks, Wards of Faerie 08.27.12 / 4 24 -5 xx x xxx
Butcher, Cold Days 09.17.12 / 1 52 ++
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 163 xxx.. 13 -4 7 -1 xxx.. 36 -10 xxx.. 28 -4
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 136 17 -4 8 -1 xxx.. 30 -8 32 -5 21 +9
Cronin, The Twelve 09.17.12 / 1 74 ++
Golden, World of Warcraft: Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War 09.10.12 / 2 28 -15 x x
Harkness, Shadow of Night 07.02.12 / 12 21 -6 xxx.. xxx.. 93 -16 21 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light 09.17.12 / 1 85 ++
Koontz, Odd Apocalypse 08.06.12 / 7 17 -6 xxx xxx 80 -33 12 -4 xxx..
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 81 5 +1 10 -3 9 +2 47 -1 xxx.. 51 -2 35 +8 30 -5
Pratchett, Dodger (UK) 09.03.12 / 3 16 +37
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 20 3 +1 xxx.. 82 -1 xxx xxx.. 75 +
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: Charon’s Claw: Neverwinter Saga, Book III 08.20.12 / 5 30 -5 xxx.. xx xxx
Stirling, Lord of Mountains 09.17.12 / 1 13 ++ 16 ++
Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven 07.23.12 / 8 xxx.. 12 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.23
WP
09.16
LAT
09.16
USAT
09.09
PW
09.17
Amz
(09.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.17)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 154 x 13 -3 x xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] 06.04.12 / 15 xxx 38 -9 52 -15
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 13 xxx 41 -8
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 115 xxx.. 13 -4 9 -5 xxx 2 +13 37 -6 46 +
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 24 33 +1 xxx.. xxx.. x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, 11/22/63 [tpb] 07.30.12 / 8 11 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 39 +18 10 -2 xxx.. xx
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 75 15 -6 xxx.. xxx 111 -10 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 83 14 -4 12 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 61 +19 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] 07.26.11 / 55 xxx.. xxx.. 110 -12
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 79 7 -1 xxx.. 7 +4 66 -6 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 74 xxx.. 147 + 28 +3 xxx.. 12 -3
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 75 12 + xx 104 -8 xxx.. xxx.. 72 -9 xxx..
McGuire, Ashes of Honor 09.17.12 / 1 16 ++ 103 ++
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.15.05 / 26 x 32 +1
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 24 7 +7 6 = 56 + 17 -9 xxx..
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 11 15 -3 xxx.. x 117 -13 14 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] 02.06.12 / 33 35 -8 xxx.. 14 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit 81 +13 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.23
WP
09.16
LAT
09.16
USAT
09.09
PW
09.17
Amz
(09.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.17)
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]