Weekly Bestsellers, 7 November 2022

Olivie Blake’s new novel The Atlas Paradox (Tor) debuts on all four print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #6 on the LA Times list.
Is Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf) science fiction? Or at least SF-adjacent? We’ll give it the benefit of the doubt; it debuts on the same four print lists, ranking in the top three on three of them.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.13
LAT
11.06
USAT
10.30
PW
11.07
Amz
(11.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.07)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Blake, The Atlas Paradox 11.07.22 / 1 10 ++ 6 ++ 30 ++ 11 ++      
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 13 4 -1 xx 14 -5 5 -3 47 -9 x 65 -10
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight 04.23.18 / 27     126 -9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin/Garcia, The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One 10.24.22 / 3     13 ++ 4 ++ 86 -62 x x
McCarthy, The Passenger 10.17.22 / 4 3 ++ 2 ++ 11 ++ 3 ++ x   xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition 03.07.22 / 16     18 + x 20 -3 31 -6 38 -4
Saunders, Liberation Day 10.31.22 / 2 x 5 -3 x x      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.13
LAT
11.06
USAT
10.30
PW
11.07
Amz
(11.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.07)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [tpb] 02.18.13 / 6   xxx.. 138 +   xxx..    
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land [tpb] 07.04.22 / 6 15 = x xxx 9 -1      
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 61     90 -8   xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 9 xxx..   102 -14 14 +1 xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 87 xxx.. xx 49 +3 xxx.. xxx    
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 31     115 -16 xxx..      
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 09.27.21 / 15       13 +11 x 32 -20 79 -43
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 [tpb] 08.17.20 / 24 5 +6   8 +9 5 +6 x    
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 61 xxx.. 3 + x   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 112     140 + xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 312           xxx.. 31 +10
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 107     xxx..   30 -9   xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 5 14 ++ 4 + xxx.. 11 +5      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.13
LAT
11.06
USAT
10.30
PW
11.07
Amz
(11.07)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.07)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.07)
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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