Weekly Bestsellers, 5 September 2016

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad retains the #1 position on three lists this week.

A new novel by Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms (Bloomsbury), to be published tomorrow, is selling well on all three Amazon lists today, ranking as high as #14.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.11
WP
09.04
LAT
09.04
USAT
08.28
PW
09.05
Amz
(09.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.05)
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 / 25 3 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Crouch, Dark Matter 08.01.16 / 6 16 +2 9 + 51 -9 18 +1 xxx..
King, End of Watch 05.23.16 / 16 xx xxx.. xxx.. xx 17 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury 05.09.16 / 18 4 +3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, Empire of Storms 09.05.16 / 1 14 ++ 14 ++ 19 ++
Riggs, Library of Souls 09.28.15 / 47 xxx.. 117 +10 7 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 30 2 = 1 = 1 = 1 = 3 -2 2 -1
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: The Illustrated Edition 10.05.15 / 49 xxx 16 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (UK) 08.05.08 / 42 99 +16 xxx..
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 5 1 = xx 1 = 8 -1 1 = 10 -3 89 +
Winters, Underground Airlines 07.18.16 / 3 xxx.. 13 +
Yancey, The Infinite Sea 09.29.14 / 57 xxx.. xxx.. 20 +4 xxx..
Yancey, The Last Star 06.06.16 / 14 xxx.. 11 -1 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.11
WP
09.04
LAT
09.04
USAT
08.28
PW
09.05
Amz
(09.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.05)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 230 xxx.. 42 +6 xxx.. 36 -10 xxx.. xxx..
Brown, Red Rising [tpb] 05.02.16 / 2 135 +
King, Doctor Sleep 08.08.16 / 5 14 -5 17 -4
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 101 xxx.. 71 +3 xxx.. x xxx..
Ness, A Monster Calls [tpb] 08.22.16 / 3 5 =
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 272 xxx.. 97 -3 84 -33 64 -18 x
Riggs, Hollow City [tpb] 03.09.15 / 66 xxx.. xxx.. 60 +13 xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children [tpb] 06.17.13 / 141 xxx.. 7 -1 6 +5 2 = 38 +47 x xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) 75 -37
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 112 -32 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 47 -18
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 82 -28
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 27 -2 75 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 37 42 -15 59 -45
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 20 xxx 32 +41 xxx..
Weir, The Martian [tpb] 11.10.14 / 83 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 116 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
09.11
WP
09.04
LAT
09.04
USAT
08.28
PW
09.05
Amz
(09.05)
UK:
Amz UK
(09.05)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(09.05)
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]