Weekly Bestsellers, 13 May 2019

Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me (Doubleday) debuts on one more list, but drops on others.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.19
LAT
05.12
USAT
05.05
PW
05.13
Amz
(05.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.13)
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 / 62 6 -1   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Clare/Chu, The Red Scrolls of Magic 04.22.19 / 4 4 =   xxx 16 -4      
Gray, Star Wars: Master & Apprentice 04.29.19 / 3 x   xx 20 -4      
James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf 02.04.19 / 14 xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 04.30.18 / 29 9 = xxx.. 58 +36 8 +4 30 -1 x 46 -7
McEwan, Machines Like Me 04.15.19 / 5 x 5 ++ x 17 -3   66 -9  
Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm 12.31.18 / 19 9 -3   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.19
LAT
05.12
USAT
05.05
PW
05.13
Amz
(05.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.13)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon [tpb] 05.13.19 / 1       19 ++      
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 283 xxx.. 8 +6 17 +7 xxx.. 31 + xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 7 volumes (UK) 03.31.14 / 51           8 +8 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 140     24 +50   8 +17 xxx.. 8 -4
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 401   x xxx..   xxx.. x 76 -4
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 5 8 -1 1 +1 99 -19 17 -5 82 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 27     xxx.. 24 +      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 175           xxx.. 60 +24
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.19
LAT
05.12
USAT
05.05
PW
05.13
Amz
(05.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.13)

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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