Weekly Bestsellers, 14 December 2020

Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two remains #1 on two print lists, and in the top 10 on two others.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.20
LAT
12.13
USAT
12.06
PW
12.14
Amz
(12.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.14)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories 12.07.20 / 2       20 -15      
Cline, Ready Player Two 07.13.20 / 8 1 = 3 -2 6 -4 1 = 12 -9 83 -26 30 -8
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 35     98 -30 11 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 9 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx 72 ++ 19 +10 45 ++
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 33 xxx.. xxx.. 129 +3 21 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 29     22 -5 5 -1 39 -7 xxx.. xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 20 xxx.. 7 -4 xxx.. xxx..      
Roberts, The Awakening 12.07.20 / 2 9 -3   26 ++ 6 -3      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 57     83 -4 xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: MinaLima Edition 11.02.20 / 7     34 -6 6 +2 x xxx.. xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 95     56 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 5 1 =   11 +3 4 -1 38 -15 8 +1 107 -97
Sanderson, Rhythm of War 11.02.20 / 7 12 -4 x 44 -21 11 -3 x   xx
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 9 14 = 10 + 101 -38 17 -2 xxx..    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.20
LAT
12.13
USAT
12.06
PW
12.14
Amz
(12.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.14)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 149 9 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Coates, The Water Dancer [tpb] 11.30.20 / 3 x 5 -3          
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 31   x 141 +   xxx..   xxx..
King, The Institute [tpb] 09.14.20 / 13 8 =   xxx.. 18 -7      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 465   xxx.. 124 +10   xxx xxx.. xxx..
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 83 xxx.. 6 +3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Books 1-7 Special Edition Boxed Set [tpb] 11.26.18 / 19     46 +14 xxx.. 58 -10    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 237           98 -14 xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.20
LAT
12.13
USAT
12.06
PW
12.14
Amz
(12.14)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.14)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.14)
This cell color indicates rankings on children’s bestsellers lists This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales [Italics and brackets, and/or this cell color, indicate stale data — rankings from one or more weeks before — and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]

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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