Weekly Bestsellers, 16 January
 A new Halo novel by Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium (Tor), debuts this week, ranking #17 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, #18 on the same Publishers Weekly list.
Also debuting, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson’s Sisterhood of Dune (Tor), ranking a bit below Bear, #23 at NYT, #22 at PW. Dean Koontz’ 77 Shadow Street (Bantam) slips out of first place after one week, ranking below Stephen King’s 11/22/63 on three of the four lists they both place on.
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 01.22 |
WP 01.15 |
LAT 01.15 |
USAT 01.08 |
PW 01.16 |
Amz (01.16) |
UK: Amz UK (01.16) |
Canada: Amz.ca (01.16) |
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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 | ||||||||||
| Bear, Halo: Primordium | 01.16.12 / 1 | 17 ++ | 18 ++ | |||||||
| Clare, Clockwork Prince | 12.05.11 / 7 | 56 -19 | xx | xxx.. | ||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 128 | xxx.. | 6 +10 | 2 = | 3 +1 | 28 +19 | 16 -2 | |||
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 101 | 7 +12 | 3 +1 | 4 +1 | 34 +28 | 12 +6 | ||||
| Crichton/Preston, Micro | 11.21.11 / 9 | 21 -8 | xxx | xxx.. | 104 -21 | 20 -7 | xxx.. | |||
| Herbert/Anderson, Sisterhood of Dune | 01.16.12 / 1 | 23 ++ | 22 ++ | |||||||
| King, 11/22/63 | 03.08.11 / 21 | 4 -2 | 6 -2 | 5 -2 | 12 -5 | 5 -2 | 16 -3 | x | ||
| Koontz, 77 Shadow Street | 01.09.12 / 2 | 5 -4 | 9 -6 | 22 -9 | 4 -3 | |||||
| Maguire, Out of Oz | 11.07.11 / 11 | 32 -10 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | x | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 46 | 14 +1 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 74 -17 | 12 +4 | 65 -5 | 81 -1 | 25 +1 | |
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus | 09.26.11 / 17 | 28 -7 | xxx.. | xx | 102 -20 | x | x | xxx.. | 50 -21 | |
| Murakami, 1Q84 | 10.17.11 / 14 | 29 -11 | xxx.. | 12 -4 | x | x | 107 -19 | xx | 46 +3 | |
| Paolini, Inheritance | 03.29.11 / 43 | 17 -5 | 30 -11 | 24 -2 | 90 -4 | 39 +40 | ||||
| Stephenson, Reamde | 09.06.11 / 12 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 14 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| King, Mile 81 | 09.13.11 / 15 | 100 -53 | ||||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 01.22 |
WP 01.15 |
LAT 01.15 |
USAT 01.08 |
PW 01.16 |
Amz (01.16) |
UK: Amz UK (01.16) |
Canada: Amz.ca (01.16) |
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| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | ||||||||||
| Cast/Cast, Destined [tpb] | 10.31.11 / 12 | 85 -40 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 80 | xxx.. | 3 -1 | 1 = | 2 = | 19 +27 | 19 +2 | |||
| Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 42 | 17 +3 | xxx.. | 10 -6 | xxx.. | xxx | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | |
| Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] | 01.09.12 / 2 | 6 +1 | x | 57 +36 | 10 +2 | |||||
| Hunter, Raven Cursed | 01.16.12 / 1 | 26 ++ | 75 ++ | |||||||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 40 | 14 -3 | xxx.. | 13 -1 | 79 -6 | 10 -2 | xxx.. | 41 +11 | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 48 | 20 -2 | xxx.. | x | 16 +5 | xxx.. | 53 +5 | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] | 07.26.11 / 20 | xxx | xxx.. | 109 +6 | ||||||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 44 | 7 -2 | xxx.. | 9 +2 | 45 -10 | 4 +1 | xxx | 61 + | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] | 04.05.11 / 38 | 14 -3 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 22 -4 | xxx.. | |||
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 39 | xxx.. | 93 -19 | 64 -22 | xxx.. | 10 -3 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 40 | 19 -2 | xxx.. | 99 +6 | 17 = | xxx.. | 55 +11 | xxx.. | ||
| Meyer, Breaking Dawn | 11.21.11 / 9 | 84 -40 | ||||||||
| Meyer, Twilight | 11.21.11 / 9 | 132 -74 | ||||||||
| Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 07.20.03 / 147 | xxx.. | xxx.. | 99 + | xxx.. | |||||
| Russell, Swamplandia! [tpb] | 12.26.11 / 4 | 18 = | 15 -5 | xx | ||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 01.22 |
WP 01.15 |
LAT 01.15 |
USAT 01.08 |
PW 01.16 |
Amz (01.16) |
UK: Amz UK (01.16) |
Canada: Amz.ca (01.16) |
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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] | ||||||||
