Weekly Bestsellers, 1 May 2017

Paperback editions of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale rise in the rankings this week, to #2 at Washington Post and #4 at New York Times.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.07
WP
04.30
LAT
04.30
USAT
04.23
PW
05.01
Amz
(05.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.01)
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 / 6 20 +
Gaiman, Norse Mythology 02.06.17 / 13 6 +1 3 + 3 = 83 -10 8 -1 79 +14 xxx.. xx
Hamid, Exit West 03.20.17 / 6 xxx xxx.. 5 + xxx.. xxx xxx..
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin 05.01.17 / 1 11 ++ 4 ++ 22 ++
Roth, Carve the Mark 01.30.17 / 14 5 -1 xxx.. xxx
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 6 x 9 +2
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 6 x xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay 10.31.16 / 27 xxx.. xxx.. 12 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 64 17 -4 x 8 +7 xx 58 -6 xx
Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo 02.20.17 / 11 xx xxx 1 = xxx 23 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Shusterman, Scythe 12.05.16 / 13 9 + xxx..
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 39 12 = 4 + 4 +11 65 -25 14 -2 x xxx..
Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn 04.10.17 / 4 4 -2 10 ++ 50 -41 11 -9 xx x
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.07
WP
04.30
LAT
04.30
USAT
04.23
PW
05.01
Amz
(05.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.01)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 11 33 +25 2 +18
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 16 4 +6 2 + 12 = 14 +30 6 +2 xxx..
Brown, Red Rising [tpb] 05.02.16 / 3 122 +
Eggers, The Circle [tpb] 05.05.14 / 21 xxx.. 8 ++ xxx.. 66 +11 94 +
Gaiman, American Gods [tpb] 03.24.14 / 20 x 52 +33 36 ++ 20 ++ xxx..
King, End of Watch 04.10.17 / 4 14 + 110 -20 5 -2
King, It 04.03.17 / 5 41 +1 99 -41 xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 299 xxx.. 3 = 137 + x 45 -16 41 +5
Riggs, Library of Souls [tpb] 04.24.17 / 2 x 7 -2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 83 -17
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 149 -49 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 70 88 + 36 -11
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.07
WP
04.30
LAT
04.30
USAT
04.23
PW
05.01
Amz
(05.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.01)
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]