Weekly Bestsellers, 27 September 2021

Five new books published in mid-August appear on print bestseller lists this week, beginning with Joe Abercrombie’s The Wisdom of Crowds (Orbit), ranking #10 on the NYT fiction hardcover list.

Other debut titles are Kristen Britain’s Winterlight (DAW), Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire (St. Martin’s), Seanan McGuire’s When Sorrows Come (DAW), and Faith Hunter’s True Dead (Ace).

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.03
LAT
09.26
USAT
09.19
PW
09.27
Amz
(09.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.27)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds 09.27.21 / 1 10 ++   19 ++ 14 ++      
Britain, Winterlight 09.27.21 / 1     57 ++ 21 ++      
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 41 10 -1 4 -2 18 +4 10 = 40 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 03.01.21 / 21 xxx.. 6 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire 09.27.21 / 1     25 ++ 8 ++      
McGuire, When Sorrows Come 09.27.21 / 1     48 ++        
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 37 8 =   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 41 xx xxx 119 -12 20 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 14 xx xxx.. 63 +8 19 -1 113 -31   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.03
LAT
09.26
USAT
09.19
PW
09.27
Amz
(09.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.27)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 375   xxx.. 133 -8 xxx.. 114 -33 xxx.. xxx..
Clarke, Piranesi [tpb] 09.13.21 / 3           61 -24  
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 23           9 = 41 -15
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 54   4 +5 26 -6   34 +33 x 19 +4
Hunter, True Dead 09.27.21 / 1     11 ++ 23 ++      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 165   xxx.. 103 = xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 16     128 -15        
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 35 xxx..   76 -19 xxx..      
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 09.27.21 / 1       24 ++      
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 4 14 = 1 = xx        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 4 3 = 3 +3 34 =   70 -9 x xx
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [tpb] 06.28.21 / 13 xxx.. 6 + xxx.. xxx      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 497   xxx.. 100 -1   67 -12 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 80     107 -6 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 262           xxx.. 54 -9
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.03
LAT
09.26
USAT
09.19
PW
09.27
Amz
(09.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.27)
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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