Weekly Bestsellers, 23 October 2017

Several hardcover titles debut this week, by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare, Orson Scott Card, and Maggie Stiefvater, and most prominently Alice Hoffman, whose The Rules of Magic (Simon & Schuster) ranks #5 on the New York Times.

Publishers Weekly‘s website is not updated with this week’s issue’s bestsellers today.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.29
LAT
10.22
USAT
10.15
PW
10.16
Amz
(10.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.23)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   15×3 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic 10.09.17 / 3 9 -5            
Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer 09.11.17 / 7 4 -1   xxx.. [ 24 ]      
Black/Clare, The Silver Mask 10.23.17 / 1     54 ++        
Card, Children of the Fleet 10.23.17 / 1     140 ++        
Graceffa, Elites of Eden 10.16.17 / 2 5 -3     [ 10 ]      
Hoffman, The Rules of Magic 10.16.17 / 2 5 ++   18 ++   x    
King/King, Sleeping Beauties 09.25.17 / 5 2 = 7 -5 15 + [ 2 ] x xx x
Pullman, The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage 10.16.17 / 2         10 +17   16 +50
Pullman, The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage (UK) 10.16.17 / 2           1 +3  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition 10.03.16 / 25     150 = [ 9 ] xxx.. x xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 88   16 = xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) 10.12.15 / 55           77 +5 53 +40
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition 10.02.17 / 4     10 -7 [ 1 ] 17 -4 15 = 15 +1
Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo 02.20.17 / 25 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   95 + 78 ++ 46 +
Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints 10.23.17 / 1 2 ++            
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 64 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 52 +1 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.29
LAT
10.22
USAT
10.15
PW
10.16
Amz
(10.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.23)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 36           42 +32 52 -12
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 41 4 +1 4 -3 34 -3   72 -16   xxx..
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 265     136 +   xxx xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 109 xxx x 92 +2   xx 98 + 98 -42
Gaiman, American Gods [tpb] 03.24.14 / 35   14 = xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 78 xxx.. 2 + 131 -12   xx x xx
Ishiguro, The Buried Giant [tpb] 01.25.16 / 12   9 +       xx xx
King, It [tpb] 04.03.17 / 29 2 = xxx.. 9 -3   xxx.. xxx.. x
King, It [tpb] 09.11.17 / 7   3 -1   [ 2 ] 34 -5 71 -8  
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 07.13.03 / 29 xxx.. xxx.. 40 +   xxx..    
King, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three 08.17.03 / 6     95 +        
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 324   5 -1 xx   x xxx 94 -39
Pullman, Northern Lights (UK)             72 +  
Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind 04.15.08 / 29 xxx.. 8 + xxx..        
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb]   xxx.. xxx.. 108 +12   xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 94           64 +11 39 -3
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.29
LAT
10.22
USAT
10.15
PW
10.16
Amz
(10.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.23)
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]

 

The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

= same as last week

+/- change since last week

+ back on list

++ new on list

x no longer on list (number of x’s: weeks off list)

All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.

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