Weekly Bestsellers, 29 December

The highest ranking hardcover and paperback titles on this week’s chart are Stephen King’s Revival, ranking as high as #2 on the New York Times list, and Andy Weir’s The Martian, ranking as high as #3 on the Washington Post and LA Times lists.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.04
WP
12.28
LAT
12.28
USAT
12.21
PW
12.29
Amz
(12.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.29)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, Stone Mattress 10.06.14 / 8 81 -63
Dashner, The Death Cure 10.17.11 / 19 52 +6 48 + xxx..
King, Revival 10.20.14 / 11 2 +1 4 +1 7 +5 14 = 3 = 49 -19 99 + x
Mandel, Station Eleven 11.10.14 / 5 14 +4 12 +6 115 +15 20 = 69 +30
Martin/Garcia, The World of Ice and Fire 10.13.14 / 12 7 = 38 +4 6 +1 18 +7 13 +10 8 +4
Mitchell, The Bone Clocks 09.01.14 / 13 20 + xxx.. 9 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Murakami, The Strange Library 12.15.14 / 3 10 -1 2 +1 xx
Rice, Prince Lestat 11.03.14 / 9 13 -2 xxx.. xxx 118 +1 13 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 05.14.12 / 118 10 -5 xxx.. xxx..
Riordan, The Blood of Olympus 11.10.14 / 8 15 -10 22 -2 3 + 37 -16 xxx.. x
Roth, Allegiant 08.26.13 / 70 xxx.. 66 +9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection 07.07.14 / 26 xxx.. 49 +12 5 + x 90 +
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 137 xxx.. xxx.. 59 +10 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Hobbit 12.03.12 / 22 131 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.04
WP
12.28
LAT
12.28
USAT
12.21
PW
12.29
Amz
(12.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.29)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 12 14 +
Collins, Mockingjay [tpb] 06.04.12 / 74 93 +38 17 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Kill Order [tpb] 11.10.14 / 8 86 +57 9 +
Dashner, The Maze Runner 03.31.14 / 40 xxx.. 15 +10 8 + 59 +10 xxx.. xxx..
Dashner, The Maze Runner Series 09.29.14 / 14 61 -5 43 + xxx.. 16 -7
Dashner, The Scorch Trials [tpb] 11.10.14 / 8 xxx.. 29 +11 36 +21
Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] 03.10.14 / 25 xxx.. xxx.. 5 +12
Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane [tpb] 06.16.14 / 22 20 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Koontz, Innocence 12.08.14 / 4 4 -1 xx 4 -3
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 52 xxx.. 53 -4 10 + xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 10.28.13 / 53 19 + xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 196 6 +13 xxx.. 11 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 40 88 +60 44 -9 xxx.. 17 -7
Pynchon, Inherent Vice [tpb] 08.24.10 / 6 8 +
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 63 xxx.. 147 -48 xxx..
Roth, Divergent [tpb] 06.17.13 / 79 xxx.. xxx.. 71 +22 21 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind 04.15.08 / 12 8 + xx xxx.. xxx..
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 8 4 -1 3 = 3 +1 57 +33 10 +1 57 ++ 77 -9
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
01.04
WP
12.28
LAT
12.28
USAT
12.21
PW
12.29
Amz
(12.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(12.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(12.29)
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]