Weekly Bestsellers, 20 January 2020

C.J. Cherryh’s Resurgence (DAW), the 20th title in her long-running Foreigner series, makes it onto this week’s USA Today list. This is the first Cherryh title to appear on any list compiled on these pages since they began in 2003.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.25
LAT
01.19
USAT
01.12
PW
01.20
Amz
(01.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.20)
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 / 98 4 -2 xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance 12.16.19 / 6 2 -1   x 6 =      
Atwood, The Testaments 07.29.19 / 26 x x 100 -44 25 -9 xxx.. 93 -35 57 -38
Cherryh, Resurgence 01.20.20 / 1     133 ++        
Chiang, Exhalation 05.20.19 / 24 xxx.. 14 +1 xxx xx xxx..    
Coates, The Water Dancer 09.30.19 / 17 x 8 +2 108 -31 21 -8 xxx..   xxx..
King, The Institute 02.25.19 / 24 11 -4 xxx.. 60 -24 14 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two (UK) 03.11.19 / 27           84 -15  
Roberts, The Rise of Magicks 12.09.19 / 7 xxx..   119 -58 23 -9      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 19     xx 10 = xxx xxx.. xxx
Sapkowski, The Time of Contempt (UK) 01.13.20 / 2     143 -36        
Wilson, Nothing to See Here 11.18.19 / 9 xxx.. 11 -10 x xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.25
LAT
01.19
USAT
01.12
PW
01.20
Amz
(01.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 133 10 = x 77 -1 xxx.. xxx..   37 -6
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 333   xxx.. 84 + xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
King, The Outsider [tpb] 06.17.19 / 22 xxx.. 15 + xxx.. xxx 96 ++ xxx..  
Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness [tpb] 12.18.17 / 9   11 + xxx..       xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 424   xxx.. 93 +   xxx.. 67 + xxx..
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 41 6 -3 1 +2 73 -18 13 -7 54 +16    
Sapkowski, Blood of Elves 06.29.15 / 9     25 -10       xxx..
Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny [tpb] 12.30.19 / 4     66 -1   x   x
Sapkowski, The Last Wish 06.15.15 / 28 4 +   4 =   x 46 +39 30 -25
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.25
LAT
01.19
USAT
01.12
PW
01.20
Amz
(01.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.20)

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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