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.

 

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]