Weekly Bestsellers, 31 August 2015
Terry Pratchett’s last novel, The Shepherd’s Crown (Doubleday in the UK) is #1 on Amazon UK today; the book was published there a couple weeks ago. The US edition (HarperCollins), to be published tomorrow, is on the US and Canadian Amazon lists. The mass market movie tie-in edition of Andy Weir’s The Martian, released August 18th, debuts on two lists this week, as high as #3 on the New York Times list, while the trade paperback edition still reigns #1 on three lists this week.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 09.06 |
WP 08.30 |
LAT 08.30 |
USAT 08.23 |
PW 08.31 |
Amz (08.31) |
UK: Amz UK (08.31) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.31) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Cline, Armada | 07.13.15 / 8 | x | xxx.. | 13 -5 | xxx | xx | xxx.. | xx | |
| Dashner, The Death Cure | 10.17.11 / 44 | 145 -33 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Kenyon, Dragonbane | 08.17.15 / 3 | xx | xx | x | 17 -7 | ||||
| King, Finders Keepers | 03.30.15 / 18 | 14 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | 137 -58 | 11 +2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. |
| Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown | 08.31.15 / 1 | 99 ++ | 45 ++ | ||||||
| Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown (UK) | 06.08.15 / 13 | 1 +12 | |||||||
| Yancey, The Infinite Sea | 09.29.14 / 10 | 8 +2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 09.06 |
WP 08.30 |
LAT 08.30 |
USAT 08.23 |
PW 08.31 |
Amz (08.31) |
UK: Amz UK (08.31) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.31) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 205 | xxx.. | 57 -9 | xxx.. | 40 -5 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] | 06.18.12 / 35 | 8 -2 | x | 76 -23 | xx | 95 + | |||
| Dashner, The Maze Runner | 03.31.14 / 74 | xxx.. | 55 +13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Dashner, The Maze Runner Series | 09.29.14 / 30 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 89 + | ||||
| Dashner, The Scorch Trials [tpb] | 11.10.14 / 41 | xxx.. | 88 +3 | 10 = | xxx.. | ||||
| Lowry, The Giver | 09.02.13 / 86 | xxx.. | 58 +2 | xxx.. | 92 + | xxx.. | |||
| Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] | 06.15.15 / 12 | 10 = | xxx.. | x | 149 -33 | x | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 231 | 13 -1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 132 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 9 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set | 03.31.14 / 73 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 46 +41 | ||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 237 | xxx.. | 100 -18 | 55 = | 98 -5 | x | |||
| Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] | 03.09.15 / 26 | 10 = | xxx.. | 11 +2 | |||||
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] | 06.17.13 / 92 | 2 +2 | xx | 71 +5 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Roth, Divergent [tpb] | 06.17.13 / 112 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 16 -1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 147 + | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] | 03.23.15 / 4 | 87 + | xxx.. | ||||||
| Weir, The Martian | 08.31.15 / 1 | 3 ++ | 6 ++ | ||||||
| Weir, The Martian [tpb] | 11.10.14 / 43 | 1 +1 | 1 +1 | 1 = | 3 +10 | 3 -1 | 10 -3 | 20 -1 | 19 -6 |
| Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] | 03.16.15 / 20 | 9 = | 18 = | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 09.06 |
WP 08.30 |
LAT 08.30 |
USAT 08.23 |
PW 08.31 |
Amz (08.31) |
UK: Amz UK (08.31) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.31) |
| 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] | |||||||
