Weekly Bestsellers, 2 June

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) debuts on a couple lists this week, ranking as high as #10 on the Washington Post list.

And Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes (Scribner), with official publication tomorrow, is selling well on the Amazon sites.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.08
WP
06.01
LAT
06.01
USAT
05.25
PW
06.02
Amz
(06.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.02)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Skin Game 05.26.14 / 2 18 -7 28 -16
Clare, City of Heavenly Fire 05.26.14 / 2 27 ++ 3 -1 3 +1 5 -1
Clare, City of Lost Souls 05.14.12 / 36 xxx.. 25 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 225 xxx.. 90 +10 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Harris, Midnight Crossroad 05.19.14 / 3 x x 22 -3
King, Mr. Mercedes 02.17.14 / 8 5 +26 11 +56 7 +13
Martin, A Feast for Crows (UK) 09.06.05 / 13 83 +
Moore, The Serpent of Venice 05.05.14 / 5 xx xxx.. 5 -3 xxx.. xxx
Pratchett, Raising Steam 03.31.14 / 5 xxx.. xxx.. 19 + xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Hollow City 01.06.14 / 22 12 -1 xxx.. 17 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 88 9 -1 xxx.. 5 =
Roth, Allegiant 08.26.13 / 41 xx 9 +1 3 = 36 -9 38 +4 x
Roth, Divergent Series Complete Box Set 03.31.14 / 10 50 -3 66 -16 x 67 -37
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 109 xxx.. xx 8 -1 xxx.. 24 -3 36 -10 x
Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary 06.02.14 / 1 10 ++ 14 ++ 78 ++
Weir, The Martian 02.17.14 / 12 xxx.. 16 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.08
WP
06.01
LAT
06.01
USAT
05.25
PW
06.02
Amz
(06.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.02)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atkinson, Life After Life [tpb] 01.20.14 / 20 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 41 -4
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 174 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 87 + xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 109 12 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Clare, City of Lost Souls [tpb] 05.05.14 / 3 xxx 53 ++
Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] 06.04.12 / 62 20 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 58 10 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 10 29 +6 73 -2
Eggers, The Circle [tpb] 05.05.14 / 5 12 +4 7 -5
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 22 62 +25 79 +9
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 152 10 -1 xxx.. xx 115 +32 xxx.. xxx.. 97 -9 xxx..
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 10.28.13 / 32 7 -1 xxx.. 12 +3 86 +24 18 = 96 + 49 +16 95 +4
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 161 17 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 168 2 +1 xxx.. xxx.. 33 +9 xxx.. xxx.. 74 -43 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 109 10 -2 xxx.. 2 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 151 15 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 90 +1 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 10 51 +10 11 +2 3 +3
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 193 x xxx.. 69 +25 xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 48 xxx.. 81 +15 xxx
Roth, Divergent [tpb] 06.17.13 / 51 xxx.. 13 -4 5 -2 7 -1 23 = 51 -5 xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.08
WP
06.01
LAT
06.01
USAT
05.25
PW
06.02
Amz
(06.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.02)
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]