Weekly Bestsellers, 10 August 2015

Andy Weir’s The Martian is again the highest ranking genre book on lists this week, ranking #1 at LA Times and in the top three on three other lists.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.16
WP
08.09
LAT
08.09
USAT
08.02
PW
08.10
Amz
(08.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.10)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Abercrombie, Half a War 08.10.15 / 1 61 ++
Bacigalupi, The Water Knife 06.08.15 / 9 xxx.. 19 + xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Armada 07.13.15 / 5 9 -3 xx 6 -1 88 -30 18 -6 xx 44 +10
Dashner, The Death Cure 10.17.11 / 41 102 +3 xxx.. xxx..
King, Finders Keepers 03.30.15 / 15 15 -2 xx xx 55 -19 9 +1 xxx.. xxx.. x
Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown (UK) 06.08.15 / 10 29 +5
Riggs, Hollow City 01.06.14 / 40 13 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Robinson, Aurora 07.20.15 / 3 20 -8 xxx
Roth, Allegiant 08.26.13 / 96 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 69 +1 xxx..
Yancey, The 5th Wave 05.13.13 / 33 12 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.16
WP
08.09
LAT
08.09
USAT
08.02
PW
08.10
Amz
(08.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.10)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 202 xx 76 -4 xxx.. 40 +7 xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 32 10 +3 11 ++ 72 -6 56 +26 xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 71 xxx.. 48 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner Series 09.29.14 / 29 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 84 +
Dashner, The Scorch Trials [tpb] 11.10.14 / 38 xxx.. 53 -6 xxx..
Estep, Spider’s Trap 08.10.15 / 1 109 ++
Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] 06.15.15 / 9 9 +2 xxx.. 5 +2 131 + 12 +1
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 228 12 -7 xxx.. xxx.. 143 -47 xxx.. xxx.. 85 -20 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 129 xxx.. xxx.. 15 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 70 xx x xxx.. 16 +2
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 234 xxx.. 106 -17 45 = 81 = x
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 23 xxx.. xxx.. 22 -1
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 89 5 +1 xxx.. 83 +34 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 70 -9
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 119 +16 xxx..
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 40 2 = 3 + 1 +3 13 -1 2 = 15 = 26 +6 24 +15
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 17 xxx.. 18 -2
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.16
WP
08.09
LAT
08.09
USAT
08.02
PW
08.10
Amz
(08.10)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.10)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.10)
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]