Weekly Bestsellers, 18 March

Patricia Briggs’ Frost Burned (Ace), seventh in her popular Mercy Thompson series, debuts at #1 on the New York Times fiction hardcover list, and debuts on three other lists in 2nd to 5th place.

Other debuts this week: David Weber’s Shadow of Freedom (Baen) ranks as high as #8 on three lists. R.A. Salvatore’s Neverwinter Saga novel, The Last Threshold (Wizards of the Coast), ranks as high as #10 on three lists. And Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed (Ecco) comes in at #29 on the NYT list.

And mass market paperback titles by Seanan McGuire and Rob Thurman debut on the NYT list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.24
WP
03.17
LAT
03.17
USAT
03.10
PW
03.18
Amz
(03.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.18)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Briggs, Frost Burned 03.11.13 / 2 1 ++ 4 ++ 2 ++ 5 ++ x
Clare, Clockwork Prince 12.05.11 / 16 12 +3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Clare, Clockwork Princess 03.18.13 / 1 8 ++ 36 ++ 3 ++
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 189 xxx.. xxx.. 56 -13 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 162 xxx.. 54 -3 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Harris, Dead Ever After 03.18.13 / 1 21 ++
Howey, Wool 03.11.13 / 2 67 -7
Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light 09.17.12 / 25 13 -6 xx 15 -4 xx 16 -6 107 -24 xxx 186 -144
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 107 16 -3 xxx.. 14 + 137 +3 xxx.. 73 +9 62 +2 42 +14
Oates, The Accursed 03.18.13 / 1 29 ++ 79 ++
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 31 15 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 46 7 -2 xxx.. 145 + 23 = xxx.. xxx..
Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove 02.25.13 / 4 x 5 = xxx x
Salvatore, Forgotten Realms: The Last Threshold: Neverwinter Saga, Book IV 03.18.13 / 1 10 ++ 70 ++ 13 ++
Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories 01.21.13 / 9 15 -5 xx 1 +1 xx 22 -6 100 +16 xx
Weber, Shadow of Freedom 03.18.13 / 1 11 ++ 8 ++ 11 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.24
WP
03.17
LAT
03.17
USAT
03.10
PW
03.18
Amz
(03.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.18)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brooks, World War Z 11.07.11 / 28 xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx.. 89 -10 xxx.. xxx..
Brooks, World War Z [tpb] 10.27.09 / 77 9 = 124 +6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 28 xxx.. xxx.. 96 -9 xx
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 141 xxx.. xxx.. 71 -18 xxx.. xxx.. 95 -14 xxx..
King, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole 03.11.13 / 2 26 +1 18 +6
Martin, A Clash of Kings 04.19.11 / 97 24 +5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 109 22 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 105 10 +2 xxx.. 14 -3 120 +16 xxx.. xxx.. 100 -30 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 100 xxx.. xxx.. 14 +5 xxx.. 9 +5
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 101 19 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 97 + xxx..
McGuire, Midnight Blue-Light Special 03.18.13 / 1 20 ++
Meyer, The Host 08.16.11 / 14 13 +5 27 +30 xxx.. 63 +2
Meyer, The Host [tpb] 04.27.10 / 27 24 +3 xxx.. xxx.. 18 +7
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.15.05 / 45 73 -45 xxx..
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 50 31 = xxx.. 5 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 37 27 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 166 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 74 +
Reaves/Bohnhoff, Star Wars: The Last Jedi 03.11.13 / 2 33 -22
Thurman, Slashback 03.18.13 / 1 18 ++
Tolkien, The Hobbit xxx.. xxx.. 102 +2 xxx.. xxx xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.24
WP
03.17
LAT
03.17
USAT
03.10
PW
03.18
Amz
(03.18)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.18)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.18)
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]