Weekly Bestsellers, 18 April 2022

Two big literary SF debuts this week: Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility (Knopf), ranking on six lists, as high as #2 on three of them; and Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House (Scribner), ranking on four lists, as high as #3 on two of them.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.24
LAT
04.17
USAT
04.10
PW
04.18
Amz
(04.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (UK) 04.11.22 / 2           71 +15  
Blake, The Atlas Six 03.21.22 / 5 xxx   xxx 23 -5      
Egan, The Candy House 04.18.22 / 1 4 ++ 3 ++ 56 ++ 3 ++      
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 70 7 +1 xx 67 -17 xxx.. 42 +24 xxx.. xxx..
Maas, House of Sky and Breath 01.24.22 / 13 x xxx.. x 19 -6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Mandel, Sea of Tranquility 04.18.22 / 1 2 ++ 2 ++ 16 ++ 2 ++ 71 ++   77 ++
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition 04.01.19 / 61     xxx.. xxx.. 95 + xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition 03.07.22 / 4         98 +    
Schwab, Gallant 03.14.22 / 6 3 +1   xxx.. x      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.24
LAT
04.17
USAT
04.10
PW
04.18
Amz
(04.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 52           31 -5 58 +3
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun [tpb] 03.07.22 / 7 xxx.. 2 -1   xxx   38 +11  
Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea [tpb] 02.01.21 / 17 xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx..      
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 32     133 -4        
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 58 xxx..   64 -8 xxx.. xxx..    
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 33 10 +1 x 96 -16   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic [tpb] 06.28.21 / 28 xxx.. 9 + xxx.. xxx..      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 511   xxx.. xxx..   76 + xxx.. 71 +
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 291           xxx.. 41 +25
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 79     xxx..   27 +32   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.24
LAT
04.17
USAT
04.10
PW
04.18
Amz
(04.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.18)
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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