Weekly Bestsellers, 19 November

Lois McMaster Bujold’s Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance (Baen) debuts on the fiction hardcover lists of New York Times, at #16, and Publishers Weekly, at #15.

And ranking even high, though on children’s lists, is Laini Taylor’s Days of Blood & Starlight (Little, Brown), debuts in 4th place on the NYT list and in 8th place on the PW list.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.25
WP
11.04
LAT
11.18
USAT
11.11
PW
11.19
Amz
(11.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.19)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 30×4 10×2 15×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Bujold, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance 11.19.12 / 1 16 ++ 108 ++ 15 ++
Butcher, Cold Days 09.17.12 / 10 46 +1 90 +6
Collins, Catching Fire 08.11.09 / 172 xxx.. xxx 30 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xx
Collins, Mockingjay 02.16.10 / 145 xx 22 +4 xxx.. 91 -22 xxx.. xxx..
Condie, Reached 11.05.12 / 3 51 -2
Cronin, The Twelve 09.17.12 / 10 17 -5 19 -13 71 -17 16 -2 x xxx xx
Jordan/Sanderson, A Memory of Light 09.17.12 / 9 85 -23 82 -45
Lowry, Son 10.15.12 / 6 xxx 19 -4 xxx..
Martin, A Dance with Dragons 03.08.11 / 90 19 -1 xxx 106 +2 xxx.. x xxx 65 -2
Moning, Iced 11.12.12 / 2 22 -13 89 -72 23 -12
Pratchett, Dodger (UK) 09.03.12 / 12 49 +2
Roth, Insurgent 05.07.12 / 29 10 + xxx.. 122 = 21 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight 11.19.12 / 1 4 ++ 64 ++ 8 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.25
WP
11.04
LAT
11.18
USAT
11.11
PW
11.19
Amz
(11.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.19)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Brooks, World War Z 11.07.11 / 11 xxx.. 109 + xxx.. 57 -36 x x
Brooks, World War Z [tpb] 10.27.09 / 60 12 +18 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Hunger Games [tpb] 07.13.10 / 124 xxx.. x 37 +7 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Crichton/Preston, Micro 10.08.12 / 7 24 -6 x 16 +2
Cronin, The Passage 08.20.12 / 8 xxx 145 -49
Ivey, The Snow Child [tpb] 11.19.12 / 1 29 ++ 83 ++
King, 11/22/63 [tpb] 07.30.12 / 17 34 -9 xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
King, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole [tpb] 11.19.12 / 1 13 ++
Martin, A Feast for Crows 09.19.06 / 92 31 -3 xx xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 12.28.10 / 88 23 -9 xxx 143 -17 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 73 xxx.. 11 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Martin, A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set 04.26.11 / 83 xxx.. 35 +3 xxx.. 16 +23
Martin, A Storm of Swords 04.19.11 / 84 29 -2 15 + xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Breaking Dawn 11.21.11 / 19 121 +21
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (UK) 02.15.05 / 34 xxx.. 50 -30
Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [tpb] 09.27.04 / 33 6 -2 [ 3 ] 1 = 35 -16 14 -2 83 -43 xxx..
Morgenstern, The Night Circus [tpb] 07.09.12 / 20 16 -4 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Paolini, Inheritance 11.12.12 / 2 16 -4
Tolkien, The Hobbit 26 +15 20 + 71 -5
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
11.25
WP
11.04
LAT
11.18
USAT
11.11
PW
11.19
Amz
(11.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(11.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(11.19)
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]