This Week's Bestsellers

Deborah Harkness’s Shadow of Night (Viking) debuts impressively, ranking #1 at both New York Times and Publishers Weekly, and #4 on the combined USA Today list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.29
WP
07.15
LAT
07.22
USAT
07.15
PW
07.23
Amz
(07.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.23)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln 07.23.12 / 1 27 ++
Clare, City of Lost Souls 05.14.12 / 11 98 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 155 xxx.. 9 -2 10 -4 x 21 -5 xxx 14 -6
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 128 8 = 5 = x 14 -5 9 +2 12 -5
Harkness, Shadow of Night 07.02.12 / 4 1 ++ x 4 ++ 1 ++ 18 -11 61 -34 8 +4
Harris, Deadlocked 03.12.12 / 20 22 -2 xxx.. 129 -19 x xxx.. xxx.. xxx
King, 11/22/63 03.08.11 / 45 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 83 +
King, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole 02.27.12 / 20 33 -5 xxx.. xx x xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 73 8 -1 [ 6 ] 14 = 44 +6 9 -1 35 +3 20 -4 13 +1
Pratchett/Baxter, The Long Earth (UK) 06.04.12 / 8 68 -7 xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 11 5 = xx xxx..
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 12 1 +1 16 +4 40 -2 x 78 -2 82 +26
Walker, The Age of Miracles 06.25.12 / 5 17 -7 [ 10 ] 6 +12 93 -51 17 -7 xxx xxx xxx
Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven 07.23.12 / 1 10 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.29
WP
07.15
LAT
07.22
USAT
07.15
PW
07.23
Amz
(07.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.23)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 146 105 +13 13 +2 70 -30 xxx.. xxx..
Card, Ender’s Game 07.05.11 / 27 13 +6 xxx.. 124 +10
Clare, City of Bones [tpb] 04.08.08 / 37 xxx.. 31 + xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 6 29 =
Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] 06.04.12 / 7 xxx 22 + 10 +2
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 5 xxx.. 30 -10
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 107 xxx.. 5 = 12 -4 xxx.. 11 -5 15 -1 36 -15
Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 04.09.12 / 16 15 +2 24 -5 17 =
Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [tpb] 05.03.11 / 26 17 -9 xx xxx.. x xxx..
Harkness, A Discovery of Witches [tpb] 01.09.12 / 16 7 +23 xxx.. 30 +41 12 + 77 -22 43 +43
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 67 9 +1 13 = 53 = xxx.. xxx.. 55 -13 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 75 10 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 31 -10 xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows [tpb] 07.26.11 / 47 xxx.. xxx.. 55 +6
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 71 5 +1 9 -2 26 -3 xxx.. 89 -20 45 -16 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 65 13 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 66 68 = 23 -9 xxx.. 5 =
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 67 8 +1 14 = 45 -1 xxx.. xxx.. 29 -11 xx
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 3 5 = [ 9 ] 7 ++ 33 -4 6 = 72 -4 65 +11 27 +5
Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife [tpb] 02.06.12 / 25 23 -4 xxx.. xxx.. 23 -2 xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 155 xxx.. xxx.. 60 -12 xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit 71 +32 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.29
WP
07.15
LAT
07.22
USAT
07.15
PW
07.23
Amz
(07.23)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.23)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.23)
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]