Weekly Bestsellers, 14 September 2015

A new Star Wars novel by Chuck Wendig, Aftermath (LucasBooks), debuts strongly on four print lists, ranking #3 at Washington Post and #4 on the other three.

And first book in a new series by R.A. Salvatore, Archmage (Wizards of the Coast), debuts on three lists, as high as #17 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.20
WP
09.13
LAT
09.13
USAT
09.06
PW
09.14
Amz
(09.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.14)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Black/Clare, The Copper Gauntlet 09.14.15 / 1 15 ++
Cline, Armada 07.13.15 / 10 xxx xxx.. 15 -6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Death Cure 10.17.11 / 46 126 -37 xxx.. xxx..
King, Finders Keepers 03.30.15 / 20 x xxx.. xxx.. xx 24 -7 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Moore, Secondhand Souls 09.07.15 / 2 18 -11 x 9 ++ x 20 -12
Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown 08.31.15 / 3 29 ++ 4 ++ x x
Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown (UK) 06.08.15 / 15 11 -8
Salvatore, Archmage 09.14.15 / 1 17 ++ 69 ++ 17 ++
Stirling, The Desert and the Blade 09.14.15 / 1 144 ++
Wendig, Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens 09.07.15 / 2 4 ++ 3 ++ 4 ++ 4 ++ 110 -92 x x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.20
WP
09.13
LAT
09.13
USAT
09.06
PW
09.14
Amz
(09.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.14)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 207 xxx.. 74 -16 xxx.. 71 = xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 37 10 -3 13 -10 134 -109 xxx.. xx
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 76 xxx.. 80 -32 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Scorch Trials [tpb] 11.10.14 / 43 xxx.. 56 +22 11 -1 xxx..
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 88 xxx.. 101 -39 xxx.. xx xxx..
Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] 06.15.15 / 14 12 -2 xxx.. 10 +1 x xxx
McGuire, A Red Rose Chain 09.14.15 / 1 13 ++ 54 ++
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 239 xxx.. 125 -66 97 -2 80 + xxx
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 28 x xxx.. 19 -8
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 94 2 = xxx.. 90 +50 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 150 + xxx..
Weir, The Martian 08.31.15 / 3 7 -3 9 -2
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 45 1 = 1 +1 1 = 2 = 2 +2 2 +6 18 +7 7 +10
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 22 10 + 22 -4
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.20
WP
09.13
LAT
09.13
USAT
09.06
PW
09.14
Amz
(09.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.14)
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]