Weekly Bestsellers, 1 June 2020

Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic) debuts at #1 on two print lists. (New York Times won’t list it individually; The Hunger Games is #1 this week on its Children’s Series list.)

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.06
LAT
05.31
USAT
05.24
PW
06.01
Amz
(06.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.01)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance 12.16.19 / 25 8 -3   xxx.. xxx      
Clare, Chain of Gold 03.02.20 / 14 2 +1   xxx.. 9 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 8     1 ++ 1 ++ 2 -1 14 -11 33 -31
Jemisin, The City We Became 04.06.20 / 4 xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx..      
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 8 3 = xxx 12 -4 2 = x xxx x
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 2         31 -18   65 -33
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 35     xxx.. 12 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Wright, The End of October 05.11.20 / 4 xxx 3 ++ 111 -18 22 +1 xxx    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.06
LAT
05.31
USAT
05.24
PW
06.01
Amz
(06.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.01)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 18     103 +30   xxx..   xx
Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] 06.15.15 / 28 xxx.. 5 -2 xxx.. xxx..      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 438   xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. 57 +4 x
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 60 9 -1 8 -4 135 +4 xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 210           xxx.. 54 -19
Sapkowski/French, The Time of Contempt [tpb] 06.01.20 / 1   10 ++          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
06.06
LAT
05.31
USAT
05.24
PW
06.01
Amz
(06.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(06.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(06.01)

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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