Weekly Bestsellers, 24 September 2018

 

A new thriller by Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door (Bantam), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #5 on two of them.

Note that an error today on the Publishers Weekly website replaces the Children’s Frontlist Fiction list with a repeat of the Children’s Picture Books list; thus none of the YA titles that ranked on the PW list last week show up this week.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.30
LAT
09.23
USAT
09.16
PW
09.24
Amz
(09.24)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.24)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.24)
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 / 29 2 = xxx.. x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Black/Clare, The Golden Tower 09.24.18 / 1 71 ++
King, The Outsider 05.14.18 / 20 10 -3 x 50 -7 9 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, The Forbidden Door 09.24.18 / 1 5 ++ 7 ++ 5 ++
Shusterman, Thunderhead 01.22.18 / 20 7 +3 xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin 09.03.18 / 4 9 -3 8 -3 139 -67 10 -3 xx xx x
Westerfeld, Impostors 09.24.18 / 1 4 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.30
LAT
09.23
USAT
09.16
PW
09.24
Amz
(09.24)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.24)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.24)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 04.12.05 / 16 xxx.. 13 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 72 77 -18 xxx..
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 89 9 -1 xx 52 -1 xxx.. 102 -7 100 -17
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 295 x 49 -8 xxx.. 70 -8 xxx.. xxx..
Clare, Lady Midnight [tpb] 09.17.18 / 2 123 ++ x
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 146 xxx.. xxx.. 147 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 31 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 54 ++ xxx..
Koontz, The Crooked Staircase 09.24.18 / 1 5 ++
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 124 xxx.. 86 +24 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 369 7 -1 93 -14 101 -25 x 59 -32
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 61 -8 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 142 65 +12 31 +18
Weir, Artemis [tpb] 07.16.18 / 6 xxx.. 103 ++ xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.30
LAT
09.23
USAT
09.16
PW
09.24
Amz
(09.24)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.24)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.24)
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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