Weekly Bestsellers, 2 January 2023

R.F. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, which reappeared on a couple lists last week, jumps a few notches further up those lists this week.

The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.08
LAT
01.01
USAT
11.27
PW
01.02
Amz
(01.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.02)
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 / 102 13 +2 xxx.. [ 136 ] xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 21 2 +1 xxx.. [ 12 ] 3 = 39 -18 x x
Kuang, Babel 08.29.22 / 8 11 +3 xxx..   14 +5     xxx..
McCarthy, Stella Maris 12.19.22 / 3 xx 8 -1          
McCarthy, The Passenger 10.17.22 / 12 xxx.. 4 =   20 +4 xxx..   xxx..
Miller, Galatea: A Short Story 11.28.22 / 5   6 +          
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition 03.07.22 / 24     [ 15 ] 3 = 69 -49 x xxx..
Rowling, The Christmas Pig 10.25.21 / 21 2 =   [ 138 ] xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth 11.28.22 / 5     [ 88 ] 21 -1      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.08
LAT
01.01
USAT
11.27
PW
01.02
Amz
(01.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.02)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Blake, The Atlas Six [tpb] 09.19.22 / 5       21 =      
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land [tpb] 07.04.22 / 14 xxx.. 1 +4   17 =      
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 83           77 +12 90 -15
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 94 xxx.. xxx.. [ 38 ] xxx.. 49 +44    
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 54 xxx.. 2 +5          
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 68 13 +2 8 -2 [ 69 ]   x xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 320           xxx.. 65 -16
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 115         57 -31   xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 13 xxx.. x   15 =      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.08
LAT
01.01
USAT
11.27
PW
01.02
Amz
(01.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(01.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(01.02)
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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