Weekly Bestseller, 5 December
— posted Monday 5 December 2011 @ 7:58 am PDT
Michael Crichton & Richard Preston’s Micro (Harper) is the notable debut this week, ranking in the top ten on three lists, as high as #5 on the Washington Post list. Stephen King’s 11/22/63 remains the highest-ranking genre book on lists this week, holding on to 2nd place on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists and in the top ten on three other print lists.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.11 |
WP 12.04 |
LAT 12.04 |
USAT 11.27 |
PW 12.5 |
Amz (12.04) |
UK: Amz UK (12.04) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.04) |
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| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×3 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| Hardcovers | ||||||||||
| Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight | 11.28.11 / 2 | 20 -6 | ||||||||
| Clare, Clockwork Prince | 12.05.11 / 1 | 71 ++ | 70 ++ | |||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 122 | xxx.. | xx | 6 +4 | 12 -2 | xxx.. | 65 -16 | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 95 | xxx | 11 +6 | 14 -5 | xxx.. | 71 -21 | ||||
| Condie, Crossed | 10.31.11 / 6 | 76 +2 | 170 -73 | |||||||
| Crichton/Preston, Micro | 11.21.11 / 3 | 6 ++ | 5 ++ | 23 ++ | 6 ++ | 92 -25 | ||||
| DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories | 11.28.11 / 2 | x | 18 ++ | |||||||
| Karpyshyn, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan | 11.28.11 / 2 | 22 -14 | x | 20 -8 | ||||||
| King, 11. 22. 63 (UK) | 10.31.11 / 6 | 26 +1 | ||||||||
| King, 11/22/63 | 03.08.11 / 15 | 2 = | 3 = | 4 -2 | 8 -1 | 2 = | 4 +2 | 10 -5 | ||
| Maguire, Out of Oz | 11.07.11 / 5 | 17 -5 | xxx | x | 136 -7 | 16 +2 | 108 -35 | |||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 40 | 14 +3 | xxx.. | 19 + | 75 -6 | 13 +12 | 41 +12 | 85 +3 | 29 +11 | |
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus | 09.26.11 / 11 | 19 +1 | xxx.. | xxx | 118 -19 | 21 +1 | 79 +30 | xxx.. | 25 +10 | |
| Murakami, 1Q84 | 10.17.11 / 8 | 12 -2 | x | 3 -2 | 113 -32 | 11 -3 | 32 -1 | 64 +5 | 31 +1 | |
| Palahniuk, Damned | 10.24.11 / 7 | 26 +4 | x | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Paolini, Eragon | 11.21.11 / 3 | 107 -18 | ||||||||
| Paolini, Inheritance | 03.29.11 / 37 | 8 -2 | 4 -1 | 5 -1 | 27 -3 | 19 -8 | ||||
| Pratchett, Snuff | 09.13.11 / 9 | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 90 ++ | |||
| Pratchett, Snuff (UK) | 05.17.11 / 29 | 22 -4 | xx | |||||||
| Sanderson, The Alloy of Law | 11.21.11 / 3 | 33 -6 | xx | xx | x | |||||
| King, Mile 81 | 09.13.11 / 13 | 142 -17 | ||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.11 |
WP 12.04 |
LAT 12.04 |
USAT 11.27 |
PW 12.5 |
Amz (12.04) |
UK: Amz UK (12.04) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.04) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Brooks, World War Z | 11.07.11 / 4 | 34 -2 | xxx | xxx.. | ||||||
| Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 39 | 21 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Cast/Cast, Destined [tpb] | 10.31.11 / 6 | 27 -3 | 154 -61 | xxx.. | xxx | |||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 74 | xxx.. | 4 +9 | 3 +3 | 8 -5 | xxx.. | 36 -11 | |||
| Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 36 | 19 -2 | xxx.. | 2 = | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 34 | 17 +1 | xxx.. | 9 + | 102 +17 | 11 +13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Clash of Kings [tpb] | 05.24.11 / 26 | 33 -4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 42 | 21 = | xx | 110 +23 | 14 + | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 38 | 11 +2 | xxx.. | 8 +3 | 69 +23 | 7 +3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 32 | 15 +13 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 33 | xxx.. | 124 + | 47 -29 | xxx.. | 13 +5 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 34 | 15 +5 | xx | 115 +15 | 10 +10 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Meyer, Breaking Dawn | 11.21.11 / 3 | 15 +7 | ||||||||
| Meyer, Breaking Dawn (UK) | 01.13.09 / 116 | 73 +22 | xxx.. | |||||||
| Meyer, Eclipse (UK) | 01.13.09 / 109 | 100 -17 | xxx.. | |||||||
| Meyer, Eclipse [tpb] | 06.08.10 / 23 | 87 +61 | xxx.. | |||||||
| Meyer, New Moon (UK) | 01.13.09 / 101 | 99 -15 | xxx.. | |||||||
| Meyer, New Moon [tpb] | 06.17.08 / 123 | xxx.. | 74 +68 | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Meyer, Twilight | 11.21.11 / 3 | 38 +29 | ||||||||
| Meyer, Twilight (UK) | 01.13.09 / 112 | 75 -20 | xxx.. | |||||||
| Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] | xxx.. | xxx.. | 141 +6 | xxx.. | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 12.11 |
WP 12.04 |
LAT 12.04 |
USAT 11.27 |
PW 12.5 |
Amz (12.04) |
UK: Amz UK (12.04) |
Canada: Amz.ca (12.04) |
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| 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] | ||||||||
Category: Bestsellers.
