Weekly Bestsellers, 4 October 2021

Two titles debut this week: Richard Powers’ novel Bewilderment (Norton), ranking as high as #2, on the LA Times list; and TJ Klune’s Under the Whispering Door (Tor), ranking as high as #4, on the NY Times list.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.10
LAT
10.03
USAT
09.26
PW
10.04
Amz
(10.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.04)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone 03.12.18 / 128 5 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land 10.04.21 / 1         1 ++   26 ++
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 42 12 -2 4 = 31 -13 13 -3 58 -18 xxx.. xxx..
Klune, Under the Whispering Door 10.04.21 / 1 4 ++ 8 ++ 14 ++ 6 ++      
Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire 09.27.21 / 2     x 22 -14      
Powers, Bewilderment 10.04.21 / 1 8 ++ 2 ++ 25 ++ 3 ++ 37 ++   60 ++
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 38 6 +2   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 42 xxx xxx.. 129 -10 23 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Selznick, Kaleidoscope 10.04.21 / 1 9 ++            
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 15 xxx xxx.. 92 -29 24 -5 x   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.10
LAT
10.03
USAT
09.26
PW
10.04
Amz
(10.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.04)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Asimov, Foundation 10.04.21 / 1     71 ++        
Clarke, Piranesi [tpb] 09.13.21 / 4           89 -28  
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 24           9 = 38 +3
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 55   4 = 24 +2   54 -20 xx 56 -37
King, It [tpb] 09.11.17 / 26   xxx.. 38 ++ xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 166   xxx.. 84 +19 xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 17     138 -10        
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 36 xxx..   85 -9 xxx..      
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 09.27.21 / 2       24 =      
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 5 14 = 3 -2 xxx        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 5 4 -1 1 +2 45 -11   x xx xxx
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [tpb] 06.28.21 / 14 xxx.. 5 +1 xxx.. xxx..      
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 44 xxx.. xxx.. 136 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 498   xxx.. 132 -32   83 -16 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 81     105 +2 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 263           xxx.. 61 -7
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
10.10
LAT
10.03
USAT
09.26
PW
10.04
Amz
(10.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(10.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(10.04)
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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