Weekly Bestsellers, 19 December 2022

Cormac McCarthy’s Stella Maris (Knopf), companion novel to The Passenger, noted last month as perhaps SF-adjacent, debuts on two lists.

As noticed last week and reported here, the USA Today bestseller list is on hiatus at least through the end of the year. And Publishers Weekly has skipped updating its lists this week (as it does a couple times a year).

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.25
LAT
12.18
USAT
11.27
PW
12.12
Amz
(12.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.19)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 19 3 = xxx.. [ 12 ] [ 3 ] 22 +1 xx 38 -12
McCarthy, Stella Maris 12.19.22 / 1 8 ++ 5 ++          
McCarthy, The Passenger 10.17.22 / 10 xxx 6 -2   [ 22 ] xxx..   xxx..
Miller, Galatea: A Short Story 11.28.22 / 4   10 -1          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition 03.07.22 / 22     [ 15 ] [ 3 ] 20 -4 89 -21 xx
Rowling, The Christmas Pig 10.25.21 / 19 3 =   [ 138 ]   xxx..   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.25
LAT
12.18
USAT
11.27
PW
12.12
Amz
(12.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.19)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land [tpb] 07.04.22 / 12 xxx.. 6 +   [ 18 ]      
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 81           81 + 90 +5
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 52 xxx.. 3 +3          
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 66 15 -1 5 + [ 69 ]   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 318           xxx 66 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 113         26 +7   xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 11 xxx.. 7 -5   [ 13 ]      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
12.25
LAT
12.18
USAT
11.27
PW
12.12
Amz
(12.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.19)
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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