Weekly Bestsellers, 12 August 2019

Pierce Brown’s Dark Age (Del Rey), latest in his Red Rising series, debuts strongly on three lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.17
LAT
08.11
USAT
08.04
PW
08.12
Amz
(08.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.12)
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 / 75 4 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Atwood, The Testaments 07.29.19 / 3           48 +44 x
Brown, Dark Age 08.12.19 / 1 5 ++   5 ++ 4 ++      
Clare , Ghosts of the Shadow Market 06.17.19 / 9 3 +2   xxx.. xx      
Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason 08.05.19 / 2   14 ++ 124 -119 18 -13      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.17
LAT
08.11
USAT
08.04
PW
08.12
Amz
(08.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 82           37 +31 xxx..
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 110 x xxx.. 132 -55 xxx.. 92 +   33 +1
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 319   xxx.. 41 +21 xxx.. 12 +10 xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman/Pratchett, Good Omens [tpb] 06.17.19 / 9 14 -2            
Gaiman/Pratchett, Good Omens 01.09.07 / 19   9 + x   xxx.. xxx.. xx
King, The Outsider [tpb] 06.17.19 / 9 13 + xxx.. x 13 +1   xxx..  
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 128   xxx.. 133 +5 xxx.. 60 +   xxx..
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 66     113 +10   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 414   x 87 -8   63 +20 77 +3 69 +23
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 18 7 +4 2 +1 108 -42 11 +1 80 -9    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             96 -12  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 35     127 -29 xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.17
LAT
08.11
USAT
08.04
PW
08.12
Amz
(08.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.12)

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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