Weekly Bestsellers, 25 January 2021

Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is the highest ranking adult novel this week, at #3 on the Los Angeles Times list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.31
LAT
01.24
USAT
01.17
PW
01.25
Amz
(01.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.25)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Cline, Ready Player Two 07.13.20 / 14 11 = 9 -6 75 -32 11 -5 82 -32 xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 41     x 10 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 15 5 +8 3 -1 22 +12 4 +11 16 +5 9 +7 3 +42
Harrow, The Once and Future Witches 01.25.21 / 1     122 ++        
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 35     31 -10 5 -2 61 -16 xxx xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 26 xxx.. 7 -3 xx xx      
Roberts, The Awakening 12.07.20 / 8 xx   108 -22 15 -5      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: MinaLima Edition 11.02.20 / 13     45 -3 8 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 11 1 =   52 -3 6 -1 xx 56 +3 xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 15 7 + 8 = 27 +39 10 +9 21 +13 x 71 -32
Soule, Star Wars: Light of the Jedi 01.18.21 / 2 4 -3   26 -24 6 -5 x    
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.31
LAT
01.24
USAT
01.17
PW
01.25
Amz
(01.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.25)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 359   x 93 +37 xxx.. 95 +3 xxx.. xxx..
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 37   xxx.. 106 -10   xxx..   xxx..
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 88 xxx.. xxx.. 118 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, The Stand 03.23.20 / 11 xxx   142 -8 x      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 152   xxx.. 123 -12 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 83     57 +30   50 -11 xxx.. xx
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 471   xxx.. 6 +17   7 -3 xx 27 -16
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK)             82 +  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             54 +16  
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.31
LAT
01.24
USAT
01.17
PW
01.25
Amz
(01.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.25)
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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