Weekly Bestsellers, 29 August 2016
 Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad retains the #1 position on three lists this week.
Not ranked very high, but notable for ranking at all: N.K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate (Orbit), the second volume in her trilogy that follows Hugo Award winner The Fifth Season, an award that has gotten a fair amount of press. It’s #126 on the combined USA Today list this week. And Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is still running strong, while various editions of earlier Potter novels have been moving up on the three Amazon lists in recent weeks.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 09.04 |
WP 08.21 |
LAT 08.28 |
USAT 08.21 |
PW 08.29 |
Amz (08.29) |
UK: Amz UK (08.29) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.29) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Clare, Lady Midnight | 03.21.16 / 24 | 2 -1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Crouch, Dark Matter | 08.01.16 / 5 | 18 -4 | x | 42 +16 | 19 = | xxx.. | |||
| King, End of Watch | 05.23.16 / 15 | x | xxx.. | x | 16 -2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury | 05.09.16 / 17 | 7 -2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Riggs, Library of Souls | 09.28.15 / 46 | xxx.. | 127 +13 | 8 +3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | 02.15.16 / 29 | 2 -1 | 1 = | 1 = | 1 = | 1 = | 1 = | ||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) | 10.12.15 / 36 | 80 +18 | xxx | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition | 10.05.15 / 48 | xx | 16 -4 | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) | 08.05.08 / 41 | 115 -73 | xxx | ||||||
| Whitehead, The Underground Railroad | 08.08.16 / 4 | 1 = | [ 1 ] | 1 +1 | 7 -1 | 1 +1 | 7 = | xx | |
| Yancey, The Infinite Sea | 09.29.14 / 56 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 24 -3 | xxx.. | ||||
| Yancey, The Last Star | 06.06.16 / 13 | xxx.. | 10 = | xxx.. | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 09.04 |
WP 08.21 |
LAT 08.28 |
USAT 08.21 |
PW 08.29 |
Amz (08.29) |
UK: Amz UK (08.29) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.29) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 229 | 48 +3 | xxx.. | 26 +13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] | 06.18.12 / 80 | xxx | x | xxx | xxx.. | 85 + | |||
| Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate [tpb] | 08.29.16 / 1 | 126 ++ | |||||||
| King, Doctor Sleep | 08.08.16 / 4 | 9 = | 13 = | ||||||
| Lowry, The Giver | 09.02.13 / 100 | xxx.. | 74 +32 | xxx.. | 68 + | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 259 | xxx.. | x | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | 81 + | xxx.. | |
| Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set | 03.31.14 / 104 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 51 -2 | ||||
| Ness, A Monster Calls [tpb] | 08.22.16 / 2 | 5 +3 | |||||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 271 | 94 = | 51 +19 | 46 +13 | 47 +44 | ||||
| Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] | 03.09.15 / 65 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 73 +13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] | 06.17.13 / 140 | xxx.. | 6 + | 11 +9 | 2 = | 85 + | 73 + | xxx.. | |
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) | 38 +30 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 80 -10 | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) | 07.22.08 / 13 | 88 + | |||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK) | 67 +22 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) [tpb] | 06.27.06 / 23 | 69 +24 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] | 07.05.04 / 150 | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | 82 -2 | |||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) | 29 +5 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) | 54 +9 | ||||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 25 +3 | 69 -12 | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] | 03.23.15 / 36 | 27 -4 | 14 +42 | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] | 06.08.15 / 19 | xx | 73 +16 | xxx.. | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 09.04 |
WP 08.21 |
LAT 08.28 |
USAT 08.21 |
PW 08.29 |
Amz (08.29) |
UK: Amz UK (08.29) |
Canada: Amz.ca (08.29) |
| 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] | |||||||
