Weekly Bestsellers, 16 August 2021

Stephen King’s latest novel, Billy Summers (Scribner) is at the top of several lists today, but will not be tracked on these pages since the novel appears to be a straightforward thriller, not SF, fantasy, or horror.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.15
LAT
08.11
USAT
08.08
PW
08.16
Amz
(08.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.16)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 35 7 = 1 = 18 -3 6 +1 36 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 03.01.21 / 16 xxx.. 6 -3 x x xxx.. 82 -8 xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 55     56 -27 3 = xxx xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 31 7 =   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 35 x 10 + 71 -2 18 -2 x xxx.. 76 -1
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 8 x x 41 -14 22 -7 85 -7   xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.15
LAT
08.11
USAT
08.08
PW
08.16
Amz
(08.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.16)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 369   xxx.. 106 -14 xxx.. 56 +4 xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 17           1 +1 22 +5
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 48   5 +1 26 -4   49 -9 xxx 47 -11
King, If It Bleeds [tpb] 06.28.21 / 8 x   xx 17 -7      
King, The Institute 07.12.21 / 6       12 +2      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 159   xxx.. 101 +22 xxx.. 65 -9   xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 11     104 -16        
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 29 xxx..   59 -8 xxx..      
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [tpb] 06.28.21 / 8 xxx.. 4 -1 xxx.. x      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 491   xxx.. 111 -36   41 +11 xxx.. xxx..
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 94 xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 74     100 -6 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 256           xx 72 +
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.15
LAT
08.11
USAT
08.08
PW
08.16
Amz
(08.16)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.16)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.16)
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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