Weekly Bestsellers, 30 March 2020

Two titles debuts strongly. Patricia Briggs’ Smoke Bitten (Ace) ranks as high as #3 on the USA Today list. And Rae Carson’s Star Wars novelization The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (Del Rey) hits #2 on the Publishers Weekly list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.28
LAT
03.29
USAT
03.22
PW
03.30
Amz
(03.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.30)
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 / 108 9 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance 12.16.19 / 16 8 -3   xxx.. xxx      
Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon 03.13.17 / 20       20 +      
Briggs, Smoke Bitten 03.30.20 / 1 6 ++   3 ++ 5 ++      
Carson, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition 03.30.20 / 1 5 ++   10 ++ 2 ++      
Clare, Chain of Gold 03.02.20 / 5 1 +1   33 -14 3 -1 xxx xxx xxx
Maas, House of Earth and Blood 03.02.20 / 5 12 -5 9 -2 25 -7 12 -5 xxx xxx xxx
Riggs, The Conference of the Birds 01.27.20 / 5     xxx.. 24 -5      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.28
LAT
03.29
USAT
03.22
PW
03.30
Amz
(03.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.30)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 10     43 +   xxx..   xxx..
James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf [tpb] 03.02.20 / 5   13 =          
King, The Outsider [tpb] 06.17.19 / 32 5 = xxx.. 49 +6 10 -2 xxx.. xxx..  
King, The Stand 03.23.20 / 2     54 +89        
Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] 06.15.15 / 26 xxx.. xxx.. 107 + xxx..      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 432   xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 55 +24 xxx..
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 51 9 -1 2 +3 78 +48 19 -6 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             88 -25  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 47     79 + xxx..      
Sapkowski, The Last Wish 06.15.15 / 38 xx 8 -4 92 -20   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.28
LAT
03.29
USAT
03.22
PW
03.30
Amz
(03.30)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.30)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.30)

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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