Weekly Bestsellers, 5 November 2020

Terry Brooks’ The Last Druid (Del Rey) and Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner) debut on two lists each, as does a special “MinaLima” edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Note: this is the page that would have been posted last Monday, 2 November, except that Amazon rankings here are today’s. Change indicators (+/-) are incomplete since no list was posted on 26 October, and data is unable to be retrieved for such a list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.08
LAT
11.01
USAT
11.01
PW
11.02
Amz
(11.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.05)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Brooks, The Last Druid 11.02.20 / 1 15 ++     15 ++      
Clare/Chu, The Lost Book of the White 09.14.20 / 6 9 +   xxx.. xxx..      
Cline, Ready Player Two 07.13.20 / 2         82 +   xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 29     133 + 8 + xx xxx.. xxx
DeLillo, The Silence 11.02.20 / 1 14 ++     19 ++      
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 3 12 + xxx 79 + 16 +   30 +  
Hoffman, Magic Lessons 10.19.20 / 2 xx   127 + xx      
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 28 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 23 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 23     12 + 2 + 67 + 87 + xx
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 16 xxx.. 6 + xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: MinaLima Edition 11.02.20 / 1     15 ++ 3 ++      
Sanderson, Rhythm of War 11.02.20 / 1         48 ++   93 ++
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 3 4 + 8 ++ 33 + 7 + xx    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.08
LAT
11.01
USAT
11.01
PW
11.02
Amz
(11.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.05)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 160 14 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 355   xxx.. 126 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 26   3 + 101 +   xxx..   xxx..
King, The Institute [tpb] 09.14.20 / 7 6 +   xx 8 +      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 148   xxx.. 145 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Ogawa, The Memory Police [tpb] 08.24.20 / 3   8 +          
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 79     141 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 459   xxx.. 95 +   65 + xxx.. xx
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 77 8 + 1 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Roberts, The Rise of Magicks [tpb] 10.19.20 / 2 xx   xx 16 ++      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 231           53 + 24 +
Ruff, Lovecraft Country [tpb] 08.17.20 / 10 5 +   xxx..   xx    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.08
LAT
11.01
USAT
11.01
PW
11.02
Amz
(11.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.05)

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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