Weekly Bestsellers, 17 August 2020

Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth (Tor.com) and Laurell K. Hamilton’s Sucker Punch (Berkley) each debut on three lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.23
LAT
08.16
USAT
08.09
PW
08.17
Amz
(08.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.17)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Peace Talks 07.06.20 / 7 xx xxx 150 -94 x xxx..
Clare, Chain of Gold 03.02.20 / 25 4 +4 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 19 15 +1 3 -2 43 -12 80 -20 67 -17
Hamilton, Sucker Punch 08.17.20 / 1 7 ++ 8 ++ 1 ++
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 19 x xxx.. 115 -12 12 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 13 1 ++ 1 ++ 1 = 2 -1 47 -28
Mitchell, Utopia Avenue 07.27.20 / 3 xxx 6 = xxx xxx
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 6 13 -4 4 +1 97 -21 16 -1
Muir, Harrow the Ninth 08.17.20 / 1 9 ++ 25 ++ 11 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 45 xxx.. 12 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.23
LAT
08.16
USAT
08.09
PW
08.17
Amz
(08.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.17)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 345 xxx.. 40 +13 xxx.. 53 +6 xxx.. xxx..
Butler, Parable of the Sower [tpb] 07.06.20 / 3 3 +3
King, The Outsider 07.13.20 / 6 20 -4
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 139 xxx.. 56 + xxx.. 99 + xxx..
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 [tpb] 08.17.20 / 1 17 ++
Meyer, Twilight 11.21.11 / 13 93 +
Morgenstern, The Starless Sea [tpb] 08.17.20 / 1 19 ++
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 72 120 + 91 + xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 449 xxx.. 37 -14 24 +1 96 -22 x
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 67 xxx.. 4 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 221 xxx.. 74 -4
Ruff, Lovecraft Country [tpb] 08.17.20 / 1 57 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.23
LAT
08.16
USAT
08.09
PW
08.17
Amz
(08.17)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.17)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.17)

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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