Weekly Bestsellers, 28 September 2020

Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Tor) and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (Bloomsbury) debut strongly this week.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.04
LAT
09.27
USAT
09.20
PW
09.28
Amz
(09.28)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.28)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.28)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Butcher, Battle Ground 09.28.20 / 1 78 ++
Clare/Chu, The Lost Book of the White 09.14.20 / 3 6 = xx 22 -9
Clarke, Piranesi 09.21.20 / 2 9 ++ 8 ++ 33 ++ 8 ++ x
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 25 72 -13 6 -1 xx xxx.. xxx..
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 25 xxx xxx.. xxx.. 23 -7 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 19 9 -4 2 = 5 +4 43 -9 25 +4
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 12 xx 9 -1 xxx.. xx
Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars 09.28.20 / 1 4 ++ 15 ++ 5 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 50 xxx.. 23 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.04
LAT
09.27
USAT
09.20
PW
09.28
Amz
(09.28)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.28)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.28)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 156 12 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. x
Atwood, The Testaments [tpb] 08.24.20 / 6 10 -4 5 ++ 7 +3 67 -29
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 351 xxx.. 97 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Butler, Kindred [tpb] 09.28.20 / 1 10 ++
Butler, Parable of the Sower [tpb] 07.06.20 / 6 xxx 2 +
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 22 1 ++ 12 -4 x xx
King, The Institute [tpb] 09.14.20 / 3 1 = 89 -9 1 =
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 145 xxx.. 103 -14 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 [tpb] 08.17.20 / 7 22 -6
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 78 142 -30 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 455 xxx.. 76 -11 74 -6 93 -3 74 +10
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 73 15 + 9 -8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 60 64 -4 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 227 70 + 21 +4
Ruff, Lovecraft Country [tpb] 08.17.20 / 7 13 = xxx xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.04
LAT
09.27
USAT
09.20
PW
09.28
Amz
(09.28)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.28)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.28)

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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