Weekly Bestsellers, 21 August 2017

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale inches back up on all five print lists compiled here.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.27
WP
08.20
LAT
08.20
USAT
08.13
PW
08.21
Amz
(08.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.21)
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 / 18 23 +
Clare, Lord of Shadows 05.22.17 / 14 3 = xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Crichton, Dragon Teeth 05.29.17 / 12 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 15 + xxx..
Haig, How to Stop Time (UK) 07.17.17 / 6 40 -8
Kenyon, Dragonsworn 08.14.17 / 2 x x 12 ++
Koontz, The Silent Corner 07.03.17 / 7 xxx xxx 20 +
Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 10.05.15 / 22 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 76 +1 xxx..
Maxwell, The Last Magician 08.07.17 / 3 8 +2
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 80 7 +6 xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx xxx..
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 55 xxx.. xxx.. xxx xxx.. 25 + xxx.. 19 -7 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.27
WP
08.20
LAT
08.20
USAT
08.13
PW
08.21
Amz
(08.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.21)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 27 10 -5 16 -6
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 32 5 +1 10 + 1 +3 23 +1 22 + 18 -3 xxx..
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 257 xxx.. 50 +14 xxx.. 31 +6 xxx.. xxx..
Cline, Ready Player One [tpb] 06.18.12 / 100 4 -1 4 + 2 -1 21 -11 24 -12 50 -13 46 -41
Jemisin, The Fifth Season [tpb] 09.19.16 / 2 xxx.. 91 ++
King, It 04.03.17 / 20 12 + 27 +12 32 +11 xxx.. 35 -13
King, The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger 07.13.03 / 24 xxx.. 14 ++ 16 -12 11 + xx
King, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three 08.17.03 / 5 127 -22
L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 09.25.07 / 7 81 +1 xx xxx
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 111 xxx.. 82 +36 xxx.. x xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 267 xxx.. xxx.. 12 + 25 +13 xxx.. 92 -26 54 -31 xxx..
Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 7 volumes (UK) 03.31.14 / 37 15 +25 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 119 xxx.. 29 +40 xxx.. 14 -2
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 55 xxx.. 103 +47 97 -4 xxx.. 62 +
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 315 xxx.. 4 +3 47 -4 6 +10 63 + 22 +12
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK) 70 -4
Rowling/Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two [tpb] 08.07.17 / 3 41 -10 1 + 32 +14
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (UK) 89 -13
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK) 88 -23
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK) 77 -6
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] xxx.. xxx.. 99 -16 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 85 22 +22 31 +10
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.27
WP
08.20
LAT
08.20
USAT
08.13
PW
08.21
Amz
(08.21)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.21)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.21)
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]