Weekly Bestsellers, 19 December 2016
 In the wake of its National Book Award and inclusion on several top-10 books of the year lists, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad rises on several lists, ranking #2 this week at both Washington Post and LA Times.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.25 |
WP 12.18 |
LAT 12.18 |
USAT 12.11 |
PW 12.19 |
Amz (12.19) |
UK: Amz UK (12.19) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.19) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Cast, Moon Chosen | 10.31.16 / 8 | 5 +1 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Chabon, Moonglow | 12.05.16 / 3 | 14 = | 5 + | 1 +1 | 77 -12 | 11 +1 | 73 +23 | ||
| Clare, Lady Midnight | 03.21.16 / 33 | 7 +2 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Clare/Brennan, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy | 11.28.16 / 4 | xx | 16 -2 | ||||||
| Corey, Babylon’s Ashes | 12.19.16 / 1 | 37 ++ | |||||||
| Dashner, The Fever Code | 10.03.16 / 12 | x | 12 +3 | xxx.. | xxx | ||||
| Graceffa, Children of Eden | 10.17.16 / 9 | 6 +4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Luceno, Star Wars: Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel | 11.28.16 / 4 | xx | x | 141 -37 | xx | 100 ++ | |||
| Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis | 12.12.16 / 2 | 15 -8 | 5 ++ | 95 -69 | 14 -6 | ||||
| Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay | 10.31.16 / 8 | 6 +1 | 6 -4 | 2 = | 2 -1 | 8 +3 | 2 -1 | ||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition | 10.03.16 / 12 | 35 -10 | 5 = | 85 -64 | 73 -8 | 66 -22 | |||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | 02.15.16 / 45 | 11 -3 | 11 -3 | 3 = | 23 -5 | 14 = | 3 +1 | ||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) | 10.12.15 / 49 | 89 + | 35 +5 | ||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition | 10.05.15 / 64 | 42 -6 | xxx.. | 31 -4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Whitehead, The Underground Railroad | 08.08.16 / 20 | 6 +7 | 2 + | 2 +4 | 36 +27 | 8 +7 | 14 +3 | xxx.. | |
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.25 |
WP 12.18 |
LAT 12.18 |
USAT 12.11 |
PW 12.19 |
Amz (12.19) |
UK: Amz UK (12.19) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.19) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others [tpb] | 11.14.16 / 6 | 15 -7 | xx | x | xx | xxx | xxx | ||
| Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] | 06.18.12 / 86 | 12 -1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | 10.31.16 / 8 | 14 -4 | xxx.. | 16 -3 | |||||
| Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set | 03.31.14 / 111 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 77 -9 | ||||
| Ness, A Monster Calls [tpb] | 08.22.16 / 18 | 4 = | |||||||
| Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] | 03.09.15 / 81 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 131 -18 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] | 06.17.13 / 156 | xxx.. | xx | 60 -4 | 21 = | xxx.. | x | 73 + | |
| Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind | 04.15.08 / 21 | xxx.. | 11 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 143 + | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 61 -4 | xxx.. | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] | 10.20.02 / 30 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 60 ++ | |||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] | 06.08.15 / 35 | 63 -25 | 30 -4 | xxx.. | |||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.25 |
WP 12.18 |
LAT 12.18 |
USAT 12.11 |
PW 12.19 |
Amz (12.19) |
UK: Amz UK (12.19) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.19) |
| 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] | |||||||
