Weekly Bestsellers, 8 May 2017

Paperback editions of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale hit #1 on two lists this week, and rank in the top ten on all five print lists compiled here.

 

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.14
WP
05.07
LAT
05.07
USAT
04.30
PW
05.08
Amz
(05.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.08)
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 / 7 22 -2
Cast, Moon Chosen 10.31.16 / 22 10 + xxx..
Gaiman, Norse Mythology 02.06.17 / 14 9 -3 6 -3 5 -2 97 -14 11 -3 95 -16 xxx.. xxx
Hamid, Exit West 03.20.17 / 7 xxx.. xxx.. 7 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin 05.01.17 / 2 70 ++ 34 -23 27 -23 52 -30
Roth, Carve the Mark 01.30.17 / 15 6 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 7 xx 12 -3
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 03.27.17 / 7 xx xxx..
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay 10.31.16 / 28 xxx.. xxx.. 17 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 02.15.16 / 65 12 +5 xx 11 -3 xxx 66 -8 xxx
Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo 02.20.17 / 12 xxx xxx.. 2 -1 xxx.. 23 = xxx.. xxx..
Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire 04.03.17 / 2 8 ++ xxx.. xxx..
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 40 13 -1 5 -1 3 +1 72 -7 13 +1 xx xxx..
Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn 04.10.17 / 5 12 -8 x 93 -43 20 -9 xxx xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.14
WP
05.07
LAT
05.07
USAT
04.30
PW
05.08
Amz
(05.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.08)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (UK) 01.09.17 / 12 20 +13 3 -1
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [tpb] 01.16.17 / 17 1 +3 1 +1 2 +10 5 +9 8 ++ 4 +2 xxx..
Eggers, The Circle [tpb] 05.05.14 / 22 9 + 8 = xxx.. 47 +19 x
Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [tpb] 03.10.14 / 56 xxx.. xxx.. 115 ++ xxx..
Gaiman, American Gods [tpb] 03.24.14 / 21 13 + 31 +21 43 -7 50 -30 xxx..
Huxley, Brave New World 06.23.14 / 8 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 79 +
King, End of Watch 04.10.17 / 5 x 138 -28 7 -2
King, It 04.03.17 / 6 66 -25 74 +25 xxx.. 74 ++
King, The Gunslinger [tpb] 05.08.17 / 1 38 ++
Martin, A Game of Thrones [tpb] 04.05.11 / 134 xxx.. xxx.. 15 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 300 xxx.. 4 -1 144 -7 81 + 44 +1 23 +18
Riggs, Library of Souls [tpb] 04.24.17 / 3 xx 10 -3
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 71 93 -5 54 -18
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.14
WP
05.07
LAT
05.07
USAT
04.30
PW
05.08
Amz
(05.08)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.08)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.08)
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]