Weekly Bestsellers, 30 April 2018
 Two published books debut this week: Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory (Norton), ranking as high as #12 on the New York Times list; and a Star Wars novel by Daniel José Older, Last Shot (Del Rey), ranking #15 on the NYT list.
And forthcoming in November, but already selling on two Amazon lists: George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 (Bantam).
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 05.06 |
LAT 04.29 |
USAT 04.22 |
PW 04.30 |
Amz (04.30) |
UK: Amz UK (04.30) |
Canada: Amz.ca (04.30) |
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| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 10×3 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone | 03.12.18 / 8 | 2 +1 | 50 +41 | 3 +5 | x | xxx.. | |||
| Alderman, The Power | 01.01.18 / 18 | xxx.. | 11 +6 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 46 +5 | ||
| Haig, How to Stop Time (UK) | 07.17.17 / 24 | 73 -5 | |||||||
| Hamid, Exit West | 03.20.17 / 22 | xxx.. | 7 +8 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight | 04.23.18 / 2 | 11 +12 | 26 +41 | 33 ++ | |||||
| Martin, Fire and Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 | 04.30.18 / 1 | 77 ++ | 83 ++ | ||||||
| Older, Star Wars: Last Shot | 04.30.18 / 1 | 15 ++ | 82 ++ | 17 ++ | |||||
| Powers, The Overstory | 04.16.18 / 3 | 12 ++ | 17 ++ | 95 ++ | 13 ++ | x | |||
| Roth, The Fates Divide | 04.23.18 / 2 | 3 -2 | x | 7 -5 | |||||
| Scalzi, Head On | 04.30.18 / 1 | 62 ++ | |||||||
| Shusterman, Scythe | 12.05.16 / 25 | xxx.. | 18 +2 | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 05.06 |
LAT 04.29 |
USAT 04.22 |
PW 04.30 |
Amz (04.30) |
UK: Amz UK (04.30) |
Canada: Amz.ca (04.30) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) | 01.09.17 / 51 | 51 + | xxx.. | ||||||
| Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] | 01.16.17 / 68 | 11 + | xxx.. | 61 +18 | xxx.. | 71 + | 36 + | ||
| Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 | 07.20.03 / 274 | 99 -4 | xxx.. | 64 -23 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] | 06.18.12 / 135 | 1 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | 12 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Cline, Ready Player One | 11.06.17 / 26 | 2 -1 | 5 = | x | 42 -21 | 38 -11 | 34 +16 | ||
| Gaiman, Norse Mythology [tpb] | 03.12.18 / 8 | xxx.. | x | 15 +4 | 20 +4 | ||||
| Koontz, The Silent Corner | 11.27.17 / 8 | 104 + | xxx.. | ||||||
| Koontz, The Whispering Room | 04.09.18 / 4 | 148 + | 11 -2 | ||||||
| L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time | 09.25.07 / 34 | 10 -3 | 11 -2 | xx | xxx | ||||
| L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time | 05.10.04 / 35 | xxx.. | 6 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 348 | 8 +1 | xx | xxx.. | xx | 32 +40 | |||
| Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] | 03.23.15 / 121 | 93 + | 18 +34 | ||||||
| Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo [tpb] | 02.12.18 / 12 | xxx.. | 3 = | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | |||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 05.06 |
LAT 04.29 |
USAT 04.22 |
PW 04.30 |
Amz (04.30) |
UK: Amz UK (04.30) |
Canada: Amz.ca (04.30) |
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| 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.
