Weekly Bestsellers, 12 September 2016

Both Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child slip on two or three lists this week, but both still rank very high, at #1 on at least one list each.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.18
WP
09.11
LAT
09.11
USAT
09.04
PW
09.12
Amz
(09.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.12)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Black/Clare, The Bronze Key 09.12.16 / 1 5 ++
Clare, Lady Midnight 03.21.16 / 26 4 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Cronin, The Passage 06.08.10 / 19 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 121 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Crouch, Dark Matter 08.01.16 / 7 18 -2 11 -2 66 -15 24 -6 xxx..
King, End of Watch 05.23.16 / 17 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx 19 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury 05.09.16 / 19 7 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, Empire of Storms 09.05.16 / 2 46 -32 47 -33 x
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 48 xxx.. 102 +15 7 = xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 31 2 = 1 = 1 = 2 -1 4 -1 3 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 50 xxx.. 14 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 6 2 -1 2 + 1 = 11 -3 3 -2 24 -14 x
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 58 xxx.. xxx.. 24 -4 xxx..
Yancey, The Last Star 06.06.16 / 15 xxx.. 13 -2 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.18
WP
09.11
LAT
09.11
USAT
09.04
PW
09.12
Amz
(09.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 231 7 + 54 -12 xxx.. 41 -5 xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 81 13 + xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xx
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 102 xxx.. 67 +4 xxx.. xx xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 260 xxx.. xxx.. 14 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx..
Ness, A Monster Calls [tpb] 08.22.16 / 4 6 -1
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 273 xxx.. 90 +7 90 -6 55 +9 86 +
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 67 xxx.. xxx.. 56 +4 xxx.. 83 +
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 142 xxx.. 6 +1 7 -1 3 -1 50 -12 78 + xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) 75 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 117 -5 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 54 -7
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 92 -10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 31 -4 84 -9
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 38 46 -4 18 +41
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 21 xxx.. 51 -19 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.18
WP
09.11
LAT
09.11
USAT
09.04
PW
09.12
Amz
(09.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.12)
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]