Weekly Bestsellers, 19 August 2019

Pierce Brown’s Dark Age debuts on one more list, but drops on three others.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.24
LAT
08.18
USAT
08.11
PW
08.19
Amz
(08.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.19)
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 / 76 5 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Atwood, The Testaments 07.29.19 / 4           27 +21 38 +
Brown, Dark Age 08.12.19 / 2 x 13 ++ 147 -142 x      
Chiang, Exhalation 05.20.19 / 13 xxx.. 20 + xxx.. xxx..      
Clare , Ghosts of the Shadow Market 06.17.19 / 10 9 -6   xxx.. xxx      
King, The Institute 02.25.19 / 2         93 + xxx..  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.24
LAT
08.18
USAT
08.11
PW
08.19
Amz
(08.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.19)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 83           55 -18 xxx..
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 111 10 + xxx.. 86 +46 xxx.. 62 +30   43 -10
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 320   xxx.. 32 +9 xxx.. 16 -4 xxx.. xxx..
King, It [tpb] 04.03.17 / 46 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 20 ++ xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, The Outsider [tpb] 06.17.19 / 10 x xxx.. xx 17 -4   xxx..  
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 129   xxx.. 98 +35 xxx.. 59 +1   xxx..
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 67     116 -3   91 + xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 415   xx 82 +5   73 -10 80 -3 41 +28
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 19 12 -5 2 = 103 +5 10 +1 80 =    
Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind 04.15.08 / 41 xxx.. 13 + xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             100 -4  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 36     125 +2 xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.24
LAT
08.18
USAT
08.11
PW
08.19
Amz
(08.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.19)

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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