Weekly Bestsellers, 12 December 2022

Stephen King’s Fairy Tale remains the highest ranking genre title on general bestseller lists, still ranking #3 on two of them.

Note that the USA Today list is not updated this week; the chart here carries over last week’s ranks.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.18
LAT
12.11
USAT
11.27
PW
12.12
Amz
(12.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.12)
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 / 100 xxx.. xxx.. 136 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 18 3 -1 xxx.. 12 = 3 = 23 -6 x 26 =
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight 04.23.18 / 31     123 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
McCarthy, The Passenger 10.17.22 / 9 xx 4 -2 xx 22 + xxx..   xxx..
Meyer, Cursed 11.21.22 / 4 9 -3     xx      
Miller, Galatea: A Short Story 11.28.22 / 3   9 +1          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition 03.07.22 / 21     15 = 3 -1 16 -8 68 -23 x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 100     109 = xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Christmas Pig 10.25.21 / 18 3 -1   138 = xxx.. xxx..   xxx
Sanderson, The Lost Metal 11.28.22 / 3 xx   73 = x      
Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth 11.28.22 / 3     88 = 16 +1      
Tolkien, The Silmarillion [Illustrated Edition] 11.21.22 / 2     xxx 24 +      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.18
LAT
12.11
USAT
11.27
PW
12.12
Amz
(12.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.12)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land [tpb] 07.04.22 / 11 xxx.. x xxx.. 18 +      
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 80           xxx.. 95 +
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun [tpb] 03.07.22 / 23 xxx.. 4 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..  
Liu, The Three-Body Problem [tpb] 01.16.17 / 7 xxx.. 10 ++ xxx..   xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 66     75 =   xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 14 xxx..   82 = 10 -1 xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 92 xxx.. xxx.. 38 +1 xxx.. xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 35     98 = xxx..      
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 51 xxx.. 6 +3 xxx..        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 65 14 + x 69 =   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Books 1-7 Special Edition Boxed Set [tpb] 11.26.18 / 40     48 = xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 317           xx 60 -18
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 112     xxx..   33 -7   xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 10 xxx.. 2 +1 xxx.. 13 +11      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.18
LAT
12.11
USAT
11.27
PW
12.12
Amz
(12.12)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.12)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.12)
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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