Weekly Bestsellers, 20 December 2021

Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land remain the highest ranking books on this list, the Haig book having ranked for just over a full year.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.26
LAT
12.19
USAT
12.12
PW
12.20
Amz
(12.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land 10.04.21 / 12 9 +1 2 +2 61 -1 9 +5 61 +15 x xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 53 10 +1 8 + 45 +2 xxx.. 47 +13 xxx.. xxx..
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 03.01.21 / 23 xxx.. 10 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: MinaLima Edition 11.01.21 / 8     85 -13 5 = xxx   xxx
Rowling, The Christmas Pig 10.25.21 / 9 1 =   21 -10 3 = 88 -48    
Rowling, The Christmas Pig (UK) 10.18.21 / 10           26 -5 64 -39
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 45 9 +   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 24 xxx.. xxx.. 83 +11 20 +3 97 -29   x
Jordan, The Wheel of Time Premium Boxed Set I: Books 1-3 11.29.21 / 4     x   80 +15 xx 51 -25
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.26
LAT
12.19
USAT
12.12
PW
12.20
Amz
(12.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 35           10 +2 54 +37
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 66   x xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 14 +1
Herbert, Dune [tpb] 11.01.21 / 8     35 +2 xx 67 -4    
Herbert, Dune Messiah 03.30.03 / 12   xxx.. 120 +8   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Jordan, The Eye of the World: Book One of The Wheel of Time 09.13.21 / 4     131 + xx      
Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea [tpb] 02.01.21 / 9 x 8 -3 xxx.. 24 -9      
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 15 12 = 2 +1 xxx..        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 16 4 -1 4 -2 73 +5   90 +1 84 -10 xxx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 92     31 +9 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Books 1-7 Special Edition Boxed Set [tpb] 11.26.18 / 28     40 +1 xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 274           xxx.. 22 +13
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 63     xxx..   72 -59   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.26
LAT
12.19
USAT
12.12
PW
12.20
Amz
(12.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.20)
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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