Weekly Bestsellers, 9 September 2019

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese) ranks at the top of all three Amazon lists this morning; due for publication tomorrow, expect it to top print lists in a couple weeks. And just behind: Stephen King’s The Institute (Scribner), also due tomorrow.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.14
LAT
09.08
USAT
09.01
PW
09.09
Amz
(09.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.09)
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 / 79 5 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Atwood, The Testaments 07.29.19 / 7         1 +15 1 +3 1 +25
Dawson, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire 09.09.19 / 1     97 ++ 14 ++      
King, The Institute 02.25.19 / 5         4 +13 7 +4 58 +1
Obreht, Inland 08.26.19 / 3 13 -4 3 +1 x 17 -8      
Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two (UK) 03.11.19 / 8           81 -19  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.14
LAT
09.08
USAT
09.01
PW
09.09
Amz
(09.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.09)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Andrews, Sapphire Flames 09.09.19 / 1     6 ++        
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 86           13 +14 xxx..
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 114 8 +1 xxx.. 48 +8 xxx.. 5 +62   8 +83
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 323   xxx.. 36 -9 xxx.. 46 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman/Pratchett, Good Omens 01.09.07 / 22   4 +6 xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, It [tpb] 04.03.17 / 49 12 + xxx.. xxx.. 11 +4 xxx.. xxx.. 79 -9
King, It [tpb] 09.11.17 / 22   xxx..   xxx.. 25 + xxx.. xxx..
King, The Outsider [tpb] 06.17.19 / 13 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 21 +2   xxx..  
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 132   xxx.. 64 -6 xxx.. xx   xxx..
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 70     92 -5   xx xxx.. 89 +
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 418   xxx.. 88 -5   91 + 67 +29 32 -4
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 22 9 +2 2 -1 72 +36 10 +2 77 -38    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             94 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 39     120 +13 xxx..      
Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo [tpb] 02.12.18 / 21 xxx.. xxx.. 78 + xxx..   xxx..  
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad [tpb] 02.12.18 / 15 xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.14
LAT
09.08
USAT
09.01
PW
09.09
Amz
(09.09)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.09)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.09)

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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