Weekly Bestsellers, 15 August 2016

J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child remains #1 on four lists and debuts on two more lists at #1 and #3 this week.

Colson Whitehead’s literary alternate-reality novel The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) debuts strongly on four print lists, ranking as high as #2 at Washington Post.

Two other debuts this week: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dragonmark (St. Martin’s) on three lists, and Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston’s The Swarm (Tor) on two lists.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.21
WP
08.14
LAT
08.14
USAT
08.07
PW
08.15
Amz
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UK:
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Canada:
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Card/Johnston, The Swarm 08.15.16 / 1 115 ++ 24 ++
Clare, Lady Midnight 03.21.16 / 22 1 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Crouch, Dark Matter 08.01.16 / 3 15 -1 46 -20 16 -2 xx
Kenyon, Dragonmark 08.15.16 / 1 12 ++ 20 ++ 14 ++
King, End of Watch 05.23.16 / 13 16 -6 xxx xxx.. 78 -32 12 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury 05.09.16 / 15 4 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 44 xxx.. xxx.. 17 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 27 3 ++ 1 = 1 ++ 1 = 1 = 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) 10.12.15 / 34 89 -4 x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 46 58 +85 2 +11 x xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard 08.05.08 / 37 69 + xx
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 39 30 -14 x
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 2 4 ++ 2 ++ 10 ++ 3 ++ 7 -4 39 +4
Winters, Underground Airlines 07.18.16 / 2 xxx.. 16 ++
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 54 xxx.. xxx.. 22 -4 xxx..
Yancey, The Last Star 06.06.16 / 11 xx 11 -2 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.21
WP
08.14
LAT
08.14
USAT
08.07
PW
08.15
Amz
(08.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 227 xx 75 -7 xxx.. 25 +9 xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman, American Gods [tpb] 03.24.14 / 5 14 ++ xxx.. xx
King, Doctor Sleep 08.08.16 / 2 10 +4 13 +6
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 98 xxx.. 108 +36 xxx.. 99 -1 xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 257 xx xxx.. 8 +5 x xxx.. xxx.. 79 -46 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 102 xxx xx xxx.. 29 -6
Mitchell, Slade House [tpb] 08.15.16 / 1 95 ++
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 269 xxx.. 120 +4 60 +5 38 +28 x
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 63 xxx.. xxx.. 110 +39 xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 138 xxx.. 10 = 19 +1 3 + xx 73 + xx
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) 48 -16
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 33 +33 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 07.22.08 / 12 68 +12
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [tpb] 06.30.09 / 51 xxx.. 117 +23 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK) 65 -12
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 179 xxx.. xxx.. 85 +41
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [tpb] 07.25.06 / 94 137 + xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) [tpb] 06.27.06 / 21 57 +13 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 148 xxx.. 119 +28 xxx.. xxx.. 60 -11
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 22 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 52 -8
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 204 xxx.. xxx.. 63 +39 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 14 +4 55 +23
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 34 18 -3 58 -37
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 17 138 + 45 +23 xxx..
Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages (UK) 07.06.03 / 4 84 -15
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.21
WP
08.14
LAT
08.14
USAT
08.07
PW
08.15
Amz
(08.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.15)
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]