Weekly Bestsellers, 15 May 2017

Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Wings and Ruin (Bloomsbury), third in the YA fantasy series that began with A Court of Thorns and Roses, debuts prominently on two lists: #2 on the Publishers Weekly Children’s Frontlist Fiction list, and #3 on the combined USA Today list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.21
WP
05.14
LAT
05.14
USAT
05.07
PW
05.15
Amz
(05.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon 03.13.17 / 8 25 -3
Chabon, Moonglow 12.05.16 / 19 xxx.. xxx.. 18 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Gaiman, Norse Mythology 02.06.17 / 15 14 -5 9 -3 2 +3 124 -27 13 -2 x xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury 05.09.16 / 23 xxx.. 137 + xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin 05.01.17 / 3 3 +67 2 ++ 76 -42 73 -46 x
Revis, Star Wars: Rebel Rising 05.15.17 / 1 2 ++ 14 ++
Roth, Carve the Mark 01.30.17 / 16 5 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 8 xxx 16 -4
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 8 xxx xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay 10.31.16 / 29 xxx.. xxx.. 24 -7 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 66 15 -3 127 + 12 -1 xxx.. 61 +5 xxx..
Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo 02.20.17 / 13 xxx.. xxx.. 6 -4 xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire 04.03.17 / 3 8 = xxx.. xxx..
VanderMeer, Borne 05.15.17 / 1 20 ++
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 41 15 -2 10 -5 10 -7 118 -46 16 -3 xxx xxx..
Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn 04.10.17 / 6 x xx 145 -52 22 -2 xxx.. xxx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.21
WP
05.14
LAT
05.14
USAT
05.07
PW
05.15
Amz
(05.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 13 38 -18 3 =
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 18 1 = 1 = 1 +1 8 -3 7 +1 5 -1 xxx..
Eggers, The Circle [tpb] 05.05.14 / 23 10 -1 10 -2 xxx.. 61 -14 xx
Gaiman, American Gods [tpb] 03.24.14 / 22 11 +2 16 +15 22 ++ 47 -4 54 -4 xxx..
Hunter, Cold Reign 05.15.17 / 1 29 ++
King, End of Watch 04.10.17 / 6 13 + x 9 -2
King, It 04.03.17 / 7 86 -20 73 +1 xxx.. x
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 07.13.03 / 10 xxx.. 26 +
King, The Gunslinger [tpb] 05.08.17 / 2 89 -51
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 9 xxx.. 51 ++ xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 301 xxx.. 15 -11 x 82 -1 96 -52 25 -2
Riggs, Library of Souls [tpb] 04.24.17 / 4 xxx 19 -9
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 147 + xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 72 x 35 +19
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.21
WP
05.14
LAT
05.14
USAT
05.07
PW
05.15
Amz
(05.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.15)
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]