Weekly Bestsellers, 21 March 2016

Three books debut notably this week, beginning with Cassandra Clare’s Lady Midnight (McElderry), first book in a new Young Adult series, ranking #1 on the children’s lists at New York Times and Publishers Weekly, and also #1 on the combined USA Today list.

Patricia Briggs’ Fire Touched (Ace), latest in the author’s Mercy Thompson series, debuts almost as strongly, ranking #2 on three lists and #1 on the Washington Post list.

And Anne Bishop’s Marked in Flesh (Roc), fourth book in a series, debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #15 on the NYT list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.27
WP
03.20
LAT
03.20
USAT
03.13
PW
03.21
Amz
(03.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.21)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Bishop, Marked in Flesh 03.21.16 / 1 15 ++ 16 ++ 18 ++
Briggs, Fire Touched 03.21.16 / 1 2 ++ 1 ++ 2 ++ 2 ++
Brown, Golden Son 01.19.15 / 9 xxx.. 17 + xxx.. xxx..
Clare, Lady Midnight 03.21.16 / 1 1 ++ 1 ++ 1 ++ 63 ++ 27 ++ 38 ++
King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams 11.02.15 / 21 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 23 -7 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 23 xxx.. xxx.. 22 + 92 + xxx..
Roth, Allegiant 08.26.13 / 104 xxx.. xxx.. 15 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection 07.07.14 / 55 xxx.. xxx.. 23 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 6 5 -4 9 -2 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 25 xxx.. 14 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 33 2 = 77 +3 3 +1 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.27
WP
03.20
LAT
03.20
USAT
03.13
PW
03.21
Amz
(03.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.21)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 63 11 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Hardinge, The Lie Tree (UK) [tpb] 02.08.16 / 7 79 -14
Ishiguro, The Buried Giant [tpb] 01.25.16 / 9 10 =
King, 11/22/63 02.08.16 / 7 7 +1 x 61 -9 10 +5
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 251 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 66 +
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 50 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 60 ++
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 117 xxx.. xxx.. 95 + xxx.. 8 + 57 ++ 89 ++
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [tpb] 09.16.13 / 15 x 5 -2 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 36 +5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 96 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 58 +28 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 13 59 +7 xxx..
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 72 6 -1 xxx 12 +3 30 -6 xxx.. xx xxx.. 74 +
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 49 1 = xxx 32 -5 4 -2 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.27
WP
03.20
LAT
03.20
USAT
03.13
PW
03.21
Amz
(03.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.21)
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]