Weekly Bestsellers: 27 March 2017

Three debuts this week, beginning with a new “Hogwarts Library” edition of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Arthur A. Levine), ranking #5 on the USA Today list.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 (Orbit) ranks on two lists, as high as #22 on Publishers Weekly‘s fiction hardcover list.

And the US edition of Andrzej Sapowski’s The Lady of the Lake (Orbit) ranks on two lists, as high as #19 on PW‘s trade paperback list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.02
WP
03.19
LAT
03.26
USAT
03.19
PW
03.27
Amz
(03.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.27)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon 03.13.17 / 2 16 +
Briggs, Silence Fallen 03.20.17 / 2 10 -8 [ 3 ] 43 -41 11 -9
Cast, Moon Chosen 10.31.16 / 20 10 -1 xxx..
Clare, Lady Midnight 03.21.16 / 42 9 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman, Norse Mythology 02.06.17 / 8 3 = [ 2 ] 2 = 23 +1 3 = 37 -13 95 -6 55 -26
Hamid, Exit West 03.20.17 / 2 9 -4 [ 4 ] 3 ++ 81 -16 8 -3 x
Robinson, New York 2140 03.27.17 / 1 115 ++ 22 ++
Roth, Carve the Mark 01.30.17 / 9 2 = x 18 -3
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 1 5 ++ 2 ++
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 1 20 ++ 100 ++
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay 10.31.16 / 22 xx xxx 13 -3 xxx.. xxx xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 59 12 +3 123 = 10 -3 92 -2 47 +15 xxx..
Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo 02.20.17 / 6 7 -3 [ 5 ] 1 = 70 -20 7 -3 x x
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 34 14 -5 [ 6 ] 20 -15 108 -4 19 -8 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Hogwarts Library 03.27.17 / 1 36 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.02
WP
03.19
LAT
03.26
USAT
03.19
PW
03.27
Amz
(03.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.27)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 6 xx 18 ++
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 11 7 +2 [ 6 ] 3 +11 32 +10 6 +22 xxx..
Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] 03.10.14 / 55 xxx.. 14 + xxx..
Gaiman, American Gods [tpb] 03.24.14 / 15 xxx.. 101 + xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 294 [ 9 ] 4 -1 57 -10 93 -42 33 +38 33 -16
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 54 +1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 90 +
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 121 -3 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 65 79 +17 26 -4
Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake [tpb] 03.27.17 / 1 92 ++ 19 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.02
WP
03.19
LAT
03.26
USAT
03.19
PW
03.27
Amz
(03.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.27)
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]