Weekly Bestsellers, 18 January 2021

A new Star Wars novel by Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi (Del Rey), debuts on three print lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.24
LAT
01.17
USAT
01.10
PW
01.18
Amz
(01.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Clare, Chain of Gold 03.02.20 / 32 6 =   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player Two 07.13.20 / 13 11 -7 3 -1 43 -10 6 -1 50 +22 xxx.. xxx
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 40     146 -16 9 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 14 13 -4 2 +2 34 -5 15 -3 21 +30 16 -2 45 +
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 34     21 -6 3 + 45 = xx xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 25 xxx.. 4 +2 x x      
Roberts, The Awakening 12.07.20 / 7 x   86 -37 10 +1      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: MinaLima Edition 11.02.20 / 12     42 -6 7 + xxx.. xxx.. xx
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 10 1 =   49 -6 5 + x 59 +3 xxx
Sanderson, Rhythm of War 11.02.20 / 12 xxx.. xxx.. 138 -56 x xxx..   xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 14 x 8 -5 66 -45 19 -17 34 +23 98 + 39 +
Soule, Star Wars: Light of the Jedi 01.18.21 / 1 1 ++   2 ++ 1 ++ 84 ++    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.24
LAT
01.17
USAT
01.10
PW
01.18
Amz
(01.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 358   10 + 130 + xxx.. 98 -44 xxx.. xxx..
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 36   xxx.. 96 -38   xxx..   xxx..
King, The Stand 03.23.20 / 10 xx   134 -56 22 +      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 151   xxx.. 111 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 82     87 +   39 -14 xxx.. x
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 470   xxx.. 23 +98   4 -3 x 11 -4
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             70 -14  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.24
LAT
01.17
USAT
01.10
PW
01.18
Amz
(01.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.18)
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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