Weekly Bestsellers, 6 September 2021

Two titles by Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (Ecco trade paperback; first published in 2012) and Circe (Back Bay trade paperback; first published in 2018), previously untracked here, are added this week. The Song of Achilles is notable for ranking #1 on this week’s LA Times paperback list (and ranking on three other lists), not because a film or TV version is imminent, but apparently, according to Wikipedia, due to a sales boost after it was featured in a TikTok video earlier this year.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.12
LAT
09.05
USAT
08.29
PW
09.06
Amz
(09.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.06)
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 / 38 6 +1 2 = 14 = 9 -1 34 -4 xxx.. xxx..
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 03.01.21 / 19 xxx.. 10 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 58     59 +5 xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 34 6 +3   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 38 13 -2 8 +1 80 +3 16 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 11 15 + xx 16 +41 21 +2 64 +15   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.12
LAT
09.05
USAT
08.29
PW
09.06
Amz
(09.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.06)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 372   xxx.. 55 +4 xxx.. 84 -38 xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 20           8 -4 30 +1
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 51   3 +1 31 +7   51 -1 60 + 19 +26
King, If It Bleeds [tpb] 06.28.21 / 11 xxx..   xxx.. 22 =      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 162   xxx.. 43 +22 xxx.. x   xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 32 xxx..   61 -3 xxx..      
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 1   6 ++ 103 ++        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 1   1 ++ 32 ++   62 ++ 45 ++  
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [tpb] 06.28.21 / 11 xxx.. 10 -5 xxx.. 23 +      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 494   xxx.. 50 +30   40 -3 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 77     85 +3 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 259           xxx.. 73 -1
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.12
LAT
09.05
USAT
08.29
PW
09.06
Amz
(09.06)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.06)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.06)
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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