Weekly Bestsellers, 2 April

The most significant debut this week is Suzanne Brockmann’s Born to Darkness (Ballantine), first in a new military/paranormal romance series, ranking #12 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, #11 on the same list at Publishers Weekly.

Also debuting: Joyce Carol Oates’ Mudwoman, #31 on the NYT list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.08
WP
03.25
LAT
04.01
USAT
03.25
PW
04.02
Amz
(04.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.02)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×3 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Briggs, Fair Game 03.19.12 / 3 22 -11 112 -46 21 -11
Brockmann, Born to Darkness 04.02.12 / 1 12 ++ 11 ++
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 139 xxx.. 2 = 2 = 2 +1 2 +1 6 =
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 112 3 +2 3 = 3 +1 3 +1 7 +1
Denning, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse 03.26.12 / 2 9 -7 [ 4 ] 123 -92 10 -8
Feist, A Crown Imperiled 03.26.12 / 2 35 -15 x
Harris, Deadlocked 03.12.12 / 4 25 +4 64 ++ 26 +57
Harris, The Fear Index 02.06.12 / 7 xxx.. 14 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Harrison, A Perfect Blood 03.05.12 / 5 28 -5 xx x
Kenyon, Infamous 03.26.12 / 2 56 -40
King, 11/22/63 03.08.11 / 32 15 -1 xxx.. 57 +5 16 = 71 = xxx..
King, The Dark Tower VIII: The Wind Through the Keyhole 02.27.12 / 4 54 -16
Kunzru, Gods Without Men 04.02.12 / 1 16 ++
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 57 11 -3 20 + 62 +7 12 -1 51 +32 6 = 12 +3
Morgenstern, The Night Circus 09.26.11 / 27 34 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Oates, Mudwoman 04.02.12 / 1 31 ++
Paolini, Inheritance 03.29.11 / 54 xxx.. 88 +10 93 + xxx.. xxx..
Rice, The Wolf Gift 02.20.12 / 7 10 = 10 -2 79 +5 9 = xxx.. xxx..
Weber, A Rising Thunder 03.19.12 / 3 25 -10 xx 25 -11
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.08
WP
03.25
LAT
04.01
USAT
03.25
PW
04.02
Amz
(04.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.02)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [tpb] 10.27.09 / 46 21 +13 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 13 16 +9 132 +
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 91 xxx.. 1 +1 1 = 5 -4 1 = 1 =
Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [tpb] 05.03.11 / 10 15 +13 126 + xxx..
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 12 33 + xxx xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 51 10 +1 12 + 43 +7 11 -4 xxx.. 12 +9 xxx..
Martin, A Clash of Kings [tpb] 05.24.11 / 42 19 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 59 21 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 20 +4 xxx.. 16 +11 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] 07.26.11 / 31 xxx.. xxx.. 77 +20
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 55 6 +2 7 +2 16 +4 5 = 87 + 28 +36 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 49 8 = xxx.. xxx.. 13 = xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 50 59 +35 8 +4 xxx 2 +3
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 51 17 -1 xxx 63 +17 16 -3 xxx.. 18 +11 xxx..
Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] 02.06.12 / 9 5 +1 3 = 90 +10 9 = xx
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 148 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 48 +
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.08
WP
03.25
LAT
04.01
USAT
03.25
PW
04.02
Amz
(04.02)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.02)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.02)
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]