Weekly Bestsellers, 27 July 2020

Jim Butcher’s Peace Talks (Ace) debuts strongly on four lists; David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue (Random House) also debuts.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.01
LAT
07.26
USAT
07.19
PW
07.27
Amz
(07.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.27)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone 03.12.18 / 121 9 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Butcher, Peace Talks 07.06.20 / 4 2 ++ 3 ++ 3 ++ 2 ++ x    
Clare, Chain of Gold 03.02.20 / 22 5 +2   xxx.. 24 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 16     11 -4 1 = 25 -4 63 -18 49 -10
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 16 11 = xxx.. 70 -11 11 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 10         4 +11 42 +26 23 +41
Mitchell, Utopia Avenue 07.27.20 / 1 9 ++ 5 ++ 29 ++ 9 ++      
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 3 14 -4 2 +1 123 -55 x      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 43     xxx.. 9 +3 xx xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.01
LAT
07.26
USAT
07.19
PW
07.27
Amz
(07.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.27)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 342   xxx.. 100 -1 xxx.. 89 +5 xxx.. xxx..
Chiang, Exhalation [tpb] 07.27.20 / 1   10 ++          
King, The Outsider 07.13.20 / 3       9 +1      
King, The Outsider [tpb] 06.17.19 / 41 xxx.. xxx.. 144 -28 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..  
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 446   xxx.. 25 -4   16 +6 89 -38 60 +
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 65 xxx.. 3 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 218           xxx.. 97 -25
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.01
LAT
07.26
USAT
07.19
PW
07.27
Amz
(07.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.27)

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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