Weekly Bestsellers, 12 October 2020

Jim Butcher’s latest Dresden Files novel, Battle Ground (Ace), debuts at #2 on three print lists. Novels by Matt Haig and Naomi Novik also debut.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.18
LAT
10.11
USAT
10.04
PW
10.12
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
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 / 3 2 ++   2 ++ 2 ++ x    
Clarke, Piranesi 09.21.20 / 4 xx 9 -8 x x   xxx  
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 27     x 10 -4 95 + xxx.. 95 +
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 1 13 ++ 7 ++ 43 ++ 12 ++   23 ++  
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 27 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 25 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 21     12 -6 2 = 13 -3 56 -19 91 +
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 14 xxx.. 3 = xxx.. xxx..      
Novik, A Deadly Education 10.12.20 / 1 12 ++     11 ++      
Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars 09.28.20 / 3 x   125 -56 14 -2      
Pullman, Serpentine 10.12.20 / 1           40 ++  
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 1         45 ++    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.18
LAT
10.11
USAT
10.04
PW
10.12
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 158 5 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx
Atwood, The Testaments [tpb] 08.24.20 / 8 9 -4 5 +   10 +7   xx  
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 353   xxx.. 145 -13 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Butler, Parable of the Sower [tpb] 07.06.20 / 7 xxx.. 6 +          
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 24   4 -2 55 -30   xxx   xxx..
King, The Institute [tpb] 09.14.20 / 5 1 =   x 3 -1      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 147   xxx.. 136 -22 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 457   xxx.. 123 -17   72 +7 xx 63 +13
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 75 12 +3 x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             67 +6  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 62     81 -7 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 229           82 +6 19 +10
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.18
LAT
10.11
USAT
10.04
PW
10.12
Amz
(10.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.12)

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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