Weekly Bestsellers, 29 October
 Justin Cronin’s The Twelve (Ballantine) is the major debut this week, ranking #2 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, #4 at Publishers Weekly, #6 on the USA Today list.
Also debuting is a new novel by Mark Z. Danielewski, The Fifty Year Sword (Pantheon), #21 and #23 at NYT and PW respectively. And just making it onto NYT‘s list in 35th place is Gregory Benford and Larry Niven’s novel Bowl of Heaven (Tor).
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| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 11.04 |
WP 10.14 |
LAT 10.28 |
USAT 10.21 |
PW 10.29 |
Amz (10.29) |
UK: Amz UK (10.29) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.29) |
| Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed | 30×4 | 10×2 | 15×2 | 150 | 15×3 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Hardcovers | |||||||||
| Benford/Niven, Bowl of Heaven | 10.29.12 / 1 | 35 ++ | |||||||
| Butcher, Cold Days | 09.17.12 / 7 | 61 -10 | |||||||
| Collins, Catching Fire | 08.11.09 / 169 | xxx.. | 15 -1 | 21 -6 | x | xxx | xxx.. | 94 -51 | |
| Collins, Mockingjay | 02.16.10 / 142 | 18 -3 | 20 -7 | x | 57 +4 | x | x | ||
| Cronin, The Twelve | 09.17.12 / 7 | 2 ++ | 6 ++ | 4 ++ | 53 -28 | 65 ++ | 17 -1 | ||
| Danielewski, The Fifty Year Sword | 10.29.12 / 1 | 21 ++ | 23 ++ | ||||||
| Ivey, The Snow Child | 02.20.12 / 11 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | 96 -33 | |||
| Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light | 09.17.12 / 6 | 89 -3 | 97 -14 | ||||||
| Lowry, Son | 10.15.12 / 3 | 120 -7 | 5 +2 | xx | |||||
| Martin, A Dance with Dragons | 03.08.11 / 87 | 17 -1 | 20 + | 80 -6 | xxx.. | 75 +6 | 61 +19 | 38 +38 | |
| Pratchett, Dodger (UK) | 09.03.12 / 9 | 52 -12 | |||||||
| Roth, Insurgent | 05.07.12 / 26 | 6 +1 | xxx.. | 82 +4 | 15 +4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 11.04 |
WP 10.14 |
LAT 10.28 |
USAT 10.21 |
PW 10.29 |
Amz (10.29) |
UK: Amz UK (10.29) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.29) |
| Paperbacks [tpb=trade] | |||||||||
| Brooks, World War Z [tpb] | 10.27.09 / 57 | 12 + | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Collins, Catching Fire [tpb] | 06.04.12 / 21 | xxx.. | 83 -12 | x | |||||
| Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] | 07.13.10 / 121 | xxx.. | 7 +2 | 26 -3 | x | 66 +1 | x | xxx | |
| Crichton/Preston, Micro | 10.08.12 / 4 | 3 -1 | [ 5 ] | 63 -26 | 4 -1 | ||||
| Cronin, The Passage | 08.20.12 / 5 | 19 + | 37 +74 | ||||||
| Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [tpb] | 09.09.08 / 71 | 33 -4 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |||
| Harrison, A Perfect Blood | 10.08.12 / 3 | 31 -1 | |||||||
| King, 11/22/63 [tpb] | 07.30.12 / 14 | x | xxx.. | 122 -20 | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||
| Martin, A Clash of Kings | 04.19.11 / 81 | 23 +2 | xxx | xxx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Feast for Crows | 09.19.06 / 89 | 19 -9 | 11 +4 | 148 -8 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xx | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones | 12.28.10 / 85 | 10 +1 | 14 = | 102 -6 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set | 04.26.11 / 80 | xxx.. | 32 +4 | xxx.. | 21 +36 | ||||
| Martin, A Storm of Swords | 04.19.11 / 81 | 18 -9 | xxx | 144 -8 | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) | 02.15.05 / 31 | xxx.. | 6 +45 | ||||||
| Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] | 09.27.04 / 30 | 4 = | [ 8 ] | 1 +1 | 24 +4 | 12 +2 | 2 +14 | xxx.. | |
| Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] | 07.09.12 / 17 | 14 +2 | xxx.. | 146 -1 | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | xxx.. | |
| Rand, Atlas Shrugged | 01.27.09 / 40 | 89 -7 | xx | xxx.. | xxx.. | ||||
| Tolkien, The Hobbit | 36 +3 | 24 + | |||||||
| Title | Debut / #wks on any list | NYT 11.04 |
WP 10.14 |
LAT 10.28 |
USAT 10.21 |
PW 10.29 |
Amz (10.29) |
UK: Amz UK (10.29) |
Canada: Amz.ca (10.29) |
| 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] | |||||||
