Weekly Bestsellers, 20 July 2015

A new Star Wars novel by Christie Golden, Dark Disciple (LucasBooks), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #16 on the Publishers Weekly list.

And books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora (Orbit), and Charles Stross, The Annihilation Score (Ace), debut on the USA Today list, ranking #131 and #99 respectively.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.26
WP
07.19
LAT
07.19
USAT
07.12
PW
07.20
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Bacigalupi, The Water Knife 06.08.15 / 7 xxx.. 14 -3 xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Armada 07.13.15 / 2 60 -18 33 +7
Golden, Star Wars: Dark Disciple 07.20.15 / 1 17 ++ 69 ++ 16 ++
Ishiguro, The Buried Giant 03.02.15 / 18 xxx.. xxx.. 15 +3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, Finders Keepers 03.30.15 / 12 7 -2 8 -1 6 +10 26 -4 6 -1 xx xxx.. x
Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown (UK) 06.08.15 / 7 41 +24
Robinson, Aurora 07.20.15 / 1 131 ++
Stephenson, Seveneves 05.25.15 / 9 xxx xxx.. 13 +4 xxx xxx xxx.. xxx..
Stross, The Annihilation Score 07.20.15 / 1 99 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.26
WP
07.19
LAT
07.19
USAT
07.12
PW
07.20
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Abercrombie, Half a King [tpb] 07.20.15 / 1 146 ++
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 199 xxx 84 -5 xxx.. 44 +3 xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 131 17 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 29 11 +2 92 -9 69 +21 x
Crichton, Jurassic Park 06.22.15 / 5 14 -2 122 -35 xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 68 xxx.. 79 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner Series 09.29.14 / 27 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 73 -5
Dashner, The Scorch Trials [tpb] 11.10.14 / 35 xxx.. 90 +20 xxx..
Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] 03.10.14 / 53 xxx.. xxx.. 85 -27
King, Mr. Mercedes [tpb] 12.08.14 / 16 20 -1 x xxx.. xxx..
King, Revival [tpb] 05.18.15 / 10 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 24 -3
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 81 xxx.. xxx.. 13 = xxx.. xxx..
Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] 06.15.15 / 6 8 -1 x 9 -2 x 16 -5
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 225 8 = xxx.. xxx.. 57 -8 xxx.. xxx.. 61 +28 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 126 xx xxx.. 12 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 7 volumes (UK) 03.31.14 / 26 35 +46 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 67 144 -63 63 +5 xxx.. 20 +5
Mitchell, The Bone Clocks [tpb] 06.29.15 / 4 xx 76 -14
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 231 x 98 +5 34 +3 84 + xx
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 20 xxx.. xxx.. 23 +1
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 86 5 = xxx.. 94 +7 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (UK) 07.06.03 / 5 64 + xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [tpb] 09.16.13 / 3 24 -3 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 45 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 63 +
Sapkowski, Blood of Elves 06.29.15 / 4 37 +37
Sapkowski, The Last Wish 06.15.15 / 6 xx 43 +44
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 37 2 = 2 = 1 = 12 -1 2 +1 14 +5 40 -2 26 +21
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 14 xxx.. 19 -1
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.26
WP
07.19
LAT
07.19
USAT
07.12
PW
07.20
Amz
(07.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
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]