Weekly Bestsellers, 25 August

We’ll mention that Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, is #1 on a couple lists this week, but it doesn’t seem to have any fantastic element, and so it won’t be tracked here or posted on any of our Monitor pages.

Also, David Mitchell’s next novel, The Bone Clocks, is bubbling with pre-publication sales on the various Amazon lists; we’ll list it once it’s published.

For this week, the notable debut is Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Assassin (Del Rey), which ranks #13 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, and debuts lower on two other lists.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.31
WP
08.24
LAT
08.24
USAT
08.17
PW
08.25
Amz
(08.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.25)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Clare, City of Heavenly Fire 05.26.14 / 14 103 -18 19 -2 xxx.. x 83 -21
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 231 xxx.. xxx.. 18 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood 06.23.14 / 10 14 +4 xxx.. xx 98 -8 19 + xxx.. 53 +31
Goodkind, Severed Souls 08.18.14 / 2 19 -15 20 ++ x x
Grossman, The Magician’s Land 08.04.14 / 4 10 -9 4 ++ 129 -107 20 -12 xxx xx
Harkness, The Book of Life 07.07.14 / 8 7 = 10 -3 6 -2 38 -5 11 -5 xxx xxx 96 -3
Hobb, Fool’s Assassin 08.25.14 / 1 13 ++ 51 ++ 23 ++
King, Mr. Mercedes 02.17.14 / 20 18 -3 xxx.. xxx 85 -13 11 + xxx.. xxx.. 136 -102
Lepucki, California 07.21.14 / 6 xx 1 +2 xxx xxx
Martin, A Feast for Crows (UK) 09.06.05 / 25 90 -18
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 100 10 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Allegiant 08.26.13 / 53 xxx.. 16 = 6 -1 104 -36 70 -6 98 -80
Roth, Divergent Series Complete Box Set 03.31.14 / 22 33 +22 xx x 69 -46
Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection 07.07.14 / 8 10 -2 7 -3 1 = 38 -16 23 -12
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 121 xxx.. xxx.. 11 -1 xxx.. 64 -24 84 -63 94 -56
Shafer, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 08.25.14 / 1 18 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.31
WP
08.24
LAT
08.24
USAT
08.17
PW
08.25
Amz
(08.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.25)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atkinson, Life After Life [tpb] 01.20.14 / 32 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 70 -4
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 186 xxx.. 65 +27 xxx.. 48 -16 xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 121 8 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 22 x 9 +3 9 -1 25 -4 x
Eggers, The Circle [tpb] 05.05.14 / 15 xxx.. 11 +
Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] 03.10.14 / 7 xxx.. xxx.. 18 -2
Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane [tpb] 06.16.14 / 11 18 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 20 -3
Grossman, The Magicians [tpb] 06.08.10 / 13 25 + xxx.. xxx.. 147 -13 xxx..
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 30 x xxx.. xxx.. 149 -24 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 34 15 ++ 2 +1 4 +2 30 -12 77 +15
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 164 13 = xxx.. x xxx xxx.. xxx.. 131 -98 xxx..
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 10.28.13 / 44 7 +1 xxx.. x 137 +3 xx xxx.. 54 -2 x
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 180 5 -1 xxx.. 12 -7 97 -11 xxx.. xxx.. 75 -39 xxx..
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 163 21 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 94 -55 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 22 148 -1 x 18 -8
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 205 xxx.. 105 +10 61 -8 83 -24 xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 60 xxx.. 110 +25 xxx..
Roth, Divergent [tpb] 06.17.13 / 63 xxx.. xxx.. 6 = 10 = 51 -26 123 -76 x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.31
WP
08.24
LAT
08.24
USAT
08.17
PW
08.25
Amz
(08.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.25)
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]