Weekly Bestsellers, 25 October 2021

A new children’s novel by J.K. Rowling, The Christmas Pig (Scholastic), debuts on three print lists this week, and ranks on all three of the Amazon lists.

The other major debut this week is Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic (Simon & Schuster), fourth in her Practical Magic sequence, ranking on all four print lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.31
LAT
10.24
USAT
10.17
PW
10.25
Amz
(10.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.25)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Candon, Star Wars Visions: Ronin 10.25.21 / 1     75 ++ 14 ++      
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land 10.04.21 / 4 4 -1 3 -2 12 -6 4 -1 50 -15   xx
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 45 13 + xx 51 -9 xx 100 -20 xxx.. xxx..
Herbert, Dune 10.25.21 / 1         32 ++    
Hoffman, The Book of Magic 10.25.21 / 1 8 ++ 9 ++ 23 ++ 9 ++      
Powers, Bewilderment 10.04.21 / 4 x 8 -2 136 -53 19 -6 xxx   xxx
Rowling, The Christmas Pig 10.25.21 / 1 1 ++   5 ++ 1 ++ 22 ++    
Rowling, The Christmas Pig (UK) 10.18.21 / 2           11 -4 14 ++
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 39 10 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 45 x xxx.. 118 -49 x xxx.. xxx.. x
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 18 xxx.. xxx.. 124 +13 21 + xxx..   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.31
LAT
10.24
USAT
10.17
PW
10.25
Amz
(10.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.25)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 378   xxx.. 125 +20 xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
Clarke, Piranesi [tpb] 09.13.21 / 7       xx   94 -45  
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 27           21 -8 48 -5
Harrow, The Once and Future Witches [tpb] 10.11.21 / 3 13 -1 9 ++ 122 -48 12 =      
Herbert, Children of Dune 03.30.03 / 4         71 +    
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 58   5 = 14 +8 21 ++ 1 +36 13 + 1 +39
Herbert, Dune Messiah 03.30.03 / 5     xxx..   29 + 88 ++ 51 ++
Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House [tpb] 10.15.18 / 10     101 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 169   xxx.. 139 +4 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 39 xxx..   119 +11 xxx..      
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 8 xxx 4 -3 xxx..        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 8 3 +4 3 -1 59 +9   98 -7 x xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [tpb] 06.28.21 / 17 xxx.. 2 +5 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 84     105 +18 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 266           xxx.. 57 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 55     xxx..   84 +   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.31
LAT
10.24
USAT
10.17
PW
10.25
Amz
(10.25)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.25)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.25)
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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