Weekly Bestsellers, 31 January 2022

After over a year on various bestseller lists, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library hits #1 on the New York Times list for the first time. (It reached #2 twice before, two weeks ago on 17 January, and last year on 15 April 2021.) The only other list it’s placed #1 is LA Times‘, five times in July and August 2021.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.06
LAT
01.30
USAT
01.23
PW
01.31
Amz
(01.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.31)
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 / 18 12 +2 2 +5 74 -12 12 = 100 -23 xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 59 1 +6 4 = 19 +5 xxx.. 31 -5 xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames 02.22.21 / 19 xxx.. xxx.. 131 -11 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, House of Sky and Breath 01.24.22 / 2         63 +3 88 ++  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: MinaLima Edition 11.01.21 / 14     xx 11 -3 xxx..   xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 30 xxx.. xxx.. 122 -47 23 -6 xxx..   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.06
LAT
01.30
USAT
01.23
PW
01.31
Amz
(01.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.31)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 381   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 84 + xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 41           13 +5 31 -4
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 72   xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 69 -5
Herbert, Dune [tpb] 11.01.21 / 14     88 -9 xxx.. xxx..    
Jordan, The Eye of the World: Book One of The Wheel of Time 09.13.21 / 9     48 + xxx..      
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 21     105 -8        
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 47 xxx..   58 +2 xxx.. xx    
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 5     120 -3 xxx..      
Mandel, Station Eleven [tpb] 06.15.15 / 33 12 -1 xxx.. 98 -8 xxx.. x    
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 21 x 5 -4 xxx        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 22 8 = 2 + 49 -6   75 -6 63 +9 xx
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [tpb] 06.28.21 / 24 xxx.. 9 -1 xxx.. xxx..      
Murakami, 1Q84 [tpb] 09.10.12 / 10 xxx.. xxx.. 125 +        
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 504   xxx.. 87 +12   47 = xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             67 +19  
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 98     57 -25 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 280           xxx.. 40 -7
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 69     xxx..   71 -15   xxx..
Sapkowski, The Last Wish 06.15.15 / 46 xxx.. xxx.. 95 +1   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
02.06
LAT
01.30
USAT
01.23
PW
01.31
Amz
(01.31)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.31)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.31)
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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