Weekly Bestsellers, 24 September

The notable debut this week is Brent Weeks’ The Blinding Knife (Orbit), second in the author’s Lightbringer trilogy, debuting at #11 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, #12 on the same list at Publishers Weekly, and #38 on the combined Publishers Weekly list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.30
WP
09.16
LAT
09.16
USAT
09.16
PW
09.24
Amz
(09.24)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.24)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.24)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Anderson, Clockwork Angels 09.17.12 / 2 27 -9 x x
Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata (UK) 09.10.12 / 3 56 +27
Brooks, Wards of Faerie 08.27.12 / 5 30 -6 xxx xx xxx..
Butcher, Cold Days 09.17.12 / 2 65 -13
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 164 xxx.. 14 -1 8 -1 xxx.. 44 -8 xxx.. 35 -7
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 137 15 +2 9 -1 xxx.. 33 -3 37 -5 34 -13
Cronin, The Twelve 09.17.12 / 2 84 -10
Harkness, Shadow of Night 07.02.12 / 13 23 -2 19 + 103 -10 22 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light 09.17.12 / 2 99 -14
Koontz, Odd Apocalypse 08.06.12 / 8 25 -8 xxx.. 104 -24 20 -8 xxx..
Levithan, Every Day 09.24.12 / 1 10 ++
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 82 12 -7 [ 10 ] 13 -4 51 -4 xxx.. 58 -7 42 -7 29 +1
Pratchett, Dodger (UK) 09.03.12 / 4 23 -7
Pullman, Grimm Tales: For Young and Old (UK) 09.24.12 / 1 11 ++
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 21 5 -2 xxx.. 76 +6 xxx.. xxx.. x
Walker, The Age of Miracles 06.25.12 / 13 xxx.. 20 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Weeks, The Blinding Knife 09.24.12 / 1 11 ++ 38 ++ 12 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.30
WP
09.16
LAT
09.16
USAT
09.16
PW
09.24
Amz
(09.24)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.24)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.24)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 155 144 + 15 -2 xx xxx.. xxx..
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] 10.27.09 / 55 33 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 35 14 + xxx.. xx
Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] 06.04.12 / 16 xxx.. 50 -12 35 +17
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 14 xxx.. 60 -19
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 116 xxx.. x 10 -1 xxx.. 19 -17 39 -2 96 -50
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] 09.09.08 / 66 23 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, 11/22/63 [tpb] 07.30.12 / 9 12 -1 xxx.. 53 -14 12 -2 xxx.. xxx
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 76 13 +2 xxx.. 112 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 84 10 +4 x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 86 -25 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] 07.26.11 / 56 xxx.. xxx.. 106 +4
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 80 7 = 9 -2 69 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 75 x 27 +1 xxx.. 19 -7
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 76 11 +1 11 + 107 -3 xxx.. xxx.. 77 -5 xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 25 5 +2 3 +3 40 +16 23 -6 xxx..
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 12 14 +1 13 + 111 +6 19 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] 02.06.12 / 34 26 +9 x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 161 xxx.. xxx.. xxx 65 +
Tolkien, The Hobbit 83 -2 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.30
WP
09.16
LAT
09.16
USAT
09.16
PW
09.24
Amz
(09.24)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.24)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.24)
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]