Weekly Bestsellers, 5 October 2020

Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (Bloomsbury) hits #1 on the Los Angeles Times list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.11
LAT
10.04
USAT
09.27
PW
10.05
Amz
(10.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.05)
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 / 2         64 +14    
Clare/Chu, The Lost Book of the White 09.14.20 / 4 6 =   xxx 23 -1      
Clarke, Piranesi 09.21.20 / 3 x 1 +7 148 -115 23 -15   xx  
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 26     86 -14 6 = xxx xxx.. xxx..
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 26 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 25 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 20     6 +3 2 = 10 -5 37 +6 x
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 13 xxx 3 +6 xxx.. xxx      
Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars 09.28.20 / 2 13 -9   69 -54 12 -7      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 51     xxx.. 18 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.11
LAT
10.04
USAT
09.27
PW
10.05
Amz
(10.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.05)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 157 7 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xx
Atwood, The Testaments [tpb] 08.24.20 / 7 5 +5 x   17 -10   x  
Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon [tpb] 05.13.19 / 15       xxx.. 93 +    
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 352   xxx.. 132 -35 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [tpb] 02.18.13 / 5   xxx.. xxx..   95 ++    
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 23   2 -1 25 -13   xx   xxx
King, The Institute [tpb] 09.14.20 / 4 1 =   102 -13 2 -1      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 146   xxx.. 114 -11 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 [tpb] 08.17.20 / 8     134 ++ x      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 456   xxx.. 106 -30   79 -5 x 76 -2
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 74 15 = 3 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             73 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 61     74 -10 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 228           88 -18 29 -8
Ruff, Lovecraft Country [tpb] 08.17.20 / 8 14 -1   xxx..   xxx..    
Wilson, Nothing to See Here [tpb] 09.21.20 / 2   5 +          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.11
LAT
10.04
USAT
09.27
PW
10.05
Amz
(10.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.05)

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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