Weekly Bestsellers, 22 August 2022

Two new hardcover novels rank on two lists each this week. Mohsin Hamid’s literary fantasy The Last White Man (Riverhead) ranks #15 at NYT and #6 at LAT (where it actually debuted last week); and R. A. Salvatore’s Glacier’s Edge (Harper Voyager), latest in the long-running series The Legend of Drizzt, ranks #15 at USA Today and #12 at PW.

Meanwhile, a new edition of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Book One (DC) debuts at USA today, PW, and Amazon.com.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.28
LAT
08.21
USAT
08.14
PW
08.22
Amz
(08.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.22)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 88 11 +2 x 79 -6 xxx.. 96 +3 xxx.. xxx..
Hamid, The Last White Man 08.15.22 / 2 15 ++ 6 +3          
Herbert/Anderson, Frank Herbert’s Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad-Dib 08.22.22 / 1       21 ++      
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 2         43 +13 x  
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight 04.23.18 / 18     115 +9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames 02.22.21 / 38 xxx.. xxx.. 114 +3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 04.30.18 / 38 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 72 + xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition 03.07.22 / 5         63 +    
Salvatore, Glacier’s Edge 08.22.22 / 1     50 ++ 12 ++      
Zhao, Iron Widow 06.20.22 / 8 9 +            
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.28
LAT
08.21
USAT
08.14
PW
08.22
Amz
(08.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.22)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 393   xxx.. 46 +12 xxx.. 24 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman, The Sandman Book One [tpb] 08.22.22 / 1     88 ++ 14 ++ 69 ++    
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 70           37 -4 xxx
King, If It Bleeds 08.15.22 / 2       13 +10      
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 177   xxx.. 66 +29 xxx.. x   xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 50     49 +1   89 -4    
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 76 xxx..   31 -1 xxx.. 71 -7    
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 20     76 -12 xxx..      
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 09.27.21 / 4       24 +   35 ++ 22 ++
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 [tpb] 08.17.20 / 13     101 +4 xx 35 ++    
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 41 xxx.. 10 + 140 -44        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 51 xxx.. 8 + 62 -5   xxx.. xxx.. 93 -2
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 527   xxx.. 96 +22   73 +20 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 301           xxx.. 49 +19
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 96     xxx..   81 +   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.28
LAT
08.21
USAT
08.14
PW
08.22
Amz
(08.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.22)
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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