Weekly Bestsellers, 17 December
 The Monday after the film version of The Hobbit opened, a hardcover edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel ranked #2 on the Amazon.com bestseller list when checked today. It’s a different edition than the one that ranked a couple weeks ago.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.23 |
WP 12.16 |
LAT 12.16 |
USAT 12.09 |
PW 12.17 |
Amz (12.17) |
UK: Amz UK (12.17) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.17) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Bray, The Diviners | 10.01.12 / 3 | 15 -2 | |||||||
| Butcher, Cold Days | 09.17.12 / 14 | 12 -11 | 8 ++ | 48 -44 | 15 -12 | x | x | ||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 176 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 35 +3 | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 149 | xxx.. | 31 +5 | xxx.. | 103 -13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Condie, Reached | 11.05.12 / 7 | 87 -25 | 6 -2 | xx | |||||
| Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light | 09.17.12 / 12 | 53 +10 | 54 +12 | ||||||
| Levithan, Every Day | 09.24.12 / 3 | 14 -4 | |||||||
| Lowry, Son | 10.15.12 / 9 | xxx | xxx.. | 24 = | xxx.. | ||||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 94 | 22 -2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 128 -4 | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | 34 +7 |
| Pratchett, Dodger | 10.08.12 / 3 | 8 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Pratchett, Dodger (UK) | 09.03.12 / 16 | 74 -39 | |||||||
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | 05.14.12 / 18 | 13 -5 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Roth, Insurgent | 05.07.12 / 33 | 5 -1 | xxx.. | x | 19 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Tolkien, The Hobbit | 12.03.12 / 3 | 24 -11 | 2 +90 | 22 +43 | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.23 |
WP 12.16 |
LAT 12.16 |
USAT 12.09 |
PW 12.17 |
Amz (12.17) |
UK: Amz UK (12.17) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.17) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Brooks, World War Z | 11.07.11 / 15 | xxx.. | 14 ++ | 118 -1 | xxx.. | 79 +2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Brooks, World War Z [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 64 | 11 -2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Card, Ender’s Game | 07.05.11 / 37 | 17 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 128 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 49 +3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 88 + | xxx.. | |
| Flyte, City of Dark Magic [tpb] | 12.17.12 / 1 | 32 ++ | |||||||
| Ivey, The Snow Child [tpb] | 11.19.12 / 5 | 20 +6 | 38 +5 | ||||||
| King, 11/22/63 [tpb] | 07.30.12 / 20 | 16 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| King, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole [tpb] | 11.19.12 / 5 | 19 +1 | xx | ||||||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 85 | 33 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 96 | 22 +7 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 92 | 11 +13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 87 | xxx.. | 105 +39 | 19 +3 | xxx.. | 6 +5 | |||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 88 | 23 +7 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) | 02.15.05 / 38 | xxx.. | 75 +7 | ||||||
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] | 09.27.04 / 37 | 8 -1 | xxx | 6 -5 | x | xx | xxx | xxx.. | |
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] | 07.09.12 / 24 | 14 -1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx | 25 + | xxx.. | 85 + | xxx.. |
| Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] | 02.06.12 / 39 | 29 +3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Paolini, Inheritance | 11.12.12 / 6 | 23 -3 | |||||||
| Tolkien, The Hobbit | 9 ++ | 7 +8 | 6 +4 | 13 + | 20 +18 | ||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.23 |
WP 12.16 |
LAT 12.16 |
USAT 12.09 |
PW 12.17 |
Amz (12.17) |
UK: Amz UK (12.17) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.17) |
| 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] | |||||||
