Weekly Bestsellers, 16 November 2020

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Grand Central) reaches #1 on the L.A. Times fiction paperback list. Meanwhile, V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue again ranks on all four print lists this week.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.22
LAT
11.15
USAT
11.08
PW
11.16
Amz
(11.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.16)
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 / 124 9 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Clare/Chu, The Lost Book of the White 09.14.20 / 8 10 -2   xxx.. xxx..      
Clarke, Piranesi 09.21.20 / 6 xxx.. 3 = xxx.. xxx..   xxx..  
Cline, Ready Player Two 07.13.20 / 4         37 +58   xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 31     46 +87 14 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 5 xx xxx.. 88 -9 24 -4   43 +3  
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 29 xxx.. xxx.. 69 + 11 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 25     14 -2 3 = 27 +43 x xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 53     110 + xxx.. 83 -67 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: MinaLima Edition 11.02.20 / 3     15 = 5 =   x 78 ++
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 1         22 ++ 3 ++ 29 ++
Sanderson, Rhythm of War 11.02.20 / 3         18 +13   70 +
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 5 5 +1 10 -5 32 +1 9 +4 109 -11    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.22
LAT
11.15
USAT
11.08
PW
11.16
Amz
(11.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.16)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 162 9 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Butler, Parable of the Sower [tpb] 07.06.20 / 9 xxx.. 1 +          
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 28   9 +1 100 +1   xxx..   xxx..
King, The Institute [tpb] 09.14.20 / 9 5 =   xxx.. 11 -2      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 150   xxx.. 133 +12 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 461   xxx.. 76 +19   90 -40 xxx.. xxx..
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 79 13 -2 7 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Books 1-7 Special Edition Boxed Set [tpb] 11.26.18 / 15     108 + xxx.. 53 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 233           68 -14 19 -7
Wilson, Nothing to See Here [tpb] 09.21.20 / 3   10 +          
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.22
LAT
11.15
USAT
11.08
PW
11.16
Amz
(11.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.16)

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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