Weekly Bestsellers, 8 August 2016

J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child debuts at #1 on the Publishers Weekly list this week, and still ranks #1 on all three Amazon lists.

Also debuting: Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter (Crown) on three lists.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.14
WP
08.07
LAT
08.07
USAT
07.31
PW
08.08
Amz
(08.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.08)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Clare, Lady Midnight 03.21.16 / 21 2 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Crouch, Dark Matter 08.01.16 / 2 14 ++ 26 ++ 14 ++ x
King, End of Watch 05.23.16 / 12 10 -1 xx xxx 46 -10 8 -1 xxx xxx.. xx
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury 05.09.16 / 14 4 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 43 xxx.. xxx 16 -3 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 26 1 ++ 1 = 1 = 1 =
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (UK) 10.12.15 / 33 85 + 93 -38
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 45 143 + 13 +2 75 -68 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 38 16 -7 47 -45
Wendig, Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt 07.25.16 / 3 xx xx xx 25 -4
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 1 3 ++ 43 ++
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 53 xxx.. xxx.. 18 -4 xxx..
Yancey, The Last Star 06.06.16 / 10 x 9 -4 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.14
WP
08.07
LAT
08.07
USAT
07.31
PW
08.08
Amz
(08.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 226 x 68 +7 xxx.. 34 +3 xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 78 11 + xxx.. x 142 +2 xxx.. xxx
King, Doctor Sleep 08.08.16 / 1 14 ++ 19 ++
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 97 xxx.. 144 + xxx.. 98 + xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 256 x xxx.. 13 -5 141 -68 xxx.. xxx.. 33 -7 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 101 xx x xxx.. 23 -9
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 268 xxx.. 124 -5 65 +22 66 -30 57 +
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 62 xxx.. xxx.. 149 -33 xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 137 xxx.. 10 + 20 +4 xxx.. x x x
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) 32 -10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 66 +21 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (UK) 07.22.08 / 11 80 -32
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [tpb] 06.30.09 / 50 xxx.. 140 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK) 53 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [tpb] 08.11.02 / 178 xxx.. xxx.. 126 +21
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK) [tpb] 06.27.06 / 20 70 -14 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [tpb] 07.05.04 / 147 xxx.. 147 + xxx.. xxx.. 49 +14
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 21 -8
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 44 -10
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [tpb] 06.17.01 / 203 xxx.. xxx.. 102 +30 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 18 +14 78 -39
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 33 15 -1 21 -13
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 16 xxx.. 68 -33 xxx..
Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages (UK) 07.06.03 / 3 69 -37
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.14
WP
08.07
LAT
08.07
USAT
07.31
PW
08.08
Amz
(08.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.08)
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]