Weekly Bestsellers, 2 May 2016

J. K. Rowling’s forthcoming Harry Potter and the Cursed Child slips a few notches on a couple Amazon sites, but remains the highest ranking genre title on lists again this week.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.08
WP
05.01
LAT
05.01
USAT
04.24
PW
05.02
Amz
(05.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.02)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Brown, Morning Star 02.15.16 / 6 xxx.. xxx.. 15 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Clare, Lady Midnight 03.21.16 / 7 1 = x 85 -18 5 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 29 xxx.. xxx 10 = xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 04.11.16 / 2 17 ++ xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 12 4 -3 5 -2 2 +19
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) 10.12.15 / 25 99 -17 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 31 xxx.. 8 +1 80 -10 xxx.. xxx..
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 39 2 = xxx 6 +2 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.08
WP
05.01
LAT
05.01
USAT
04.24
PW
05.02
Amz
(05.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.02)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brown, Red Rising [tpb] 05.02.16 / 1 21 ++
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 68 15 -4 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders [tpb] 11.06.07 / 2 xxx.. 71 ++
King, 11/22/63 02.08.16 / 13 13 +2 xxx.. 147 -46 xx
King, Finders Keepers 04.04.16 / 5 4 -1 xxx 135 -45 5 +2
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 242 xxx.. xxx.. 15 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 58 +5 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 87 xxx.. 61 -7 xxx.. 44 +
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 256 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 83 +9
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 123 xxx.. 9 +4 35 -3 xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (UK) 07.06.03 / 14 28 -7 70 +
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [tpb] 09.16.13 / 21 110 +33 3 +2 xx xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 54 +5
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 74 -6 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 19 59 +19 xxx..
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 04.24.07 / 10 xxx.. 96 + xxx.. xxx..
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 78 xx xxx.. xxx.. 18 +90 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Yancey, The 5th Wave [tpb] 03.16.15 / 55 1 = xxx.. 22 +67 15 -2 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.08
WP
05.01
LAT
05.01
USAT
04.24
PW
05.02
Amz
(05.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.02)
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]