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Fantasy

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Rank	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units
1	Ninth House Leigh Bardugo, Author Flatiron Books, $27.99 (448) 978-1-250-31307-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 8 Initial Date 10/21/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/11/2019 Average Rank 8.83 [details] Sales history for Ninth House date, rank 11/11/2019, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Oct 2019 UNITS SOLD: 39,170 YTD:	Oct 2019	39,170
2	Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1 Nora Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press, $8.99 (464) 978-1-250-12297-1 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 17 Initial Date 10/07/2019 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 11/11/2019 Average Rank 8.88 [details] Sales history for Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1 date, rank 10/07/2019, 6 11/11/2019, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 22,640 YTD:	Sep 2019	22,640
3	The Burning White Brent Weeks, Author Orbit, $30.00 (650) 978-0-316-25130-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 11/04/2019 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 11/11/2019 Average Rank 6.50 [details] Sales history for The Burning White date, rank 11/11/2019, 3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Oct 2019 UNITS SOLD: 12,247 YTD:	Oct 2019	12,247
4	An Encyclopedia of Tolkien: The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien's World David Day, Author Canterbury Classics, $24.99 (544) 978-1-64517-009-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 14 Initial Date 10/21/2019 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 11/11/2019 Average Rank 9.00 [details] Sales history for An Encyclopedia of Tolkien: The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien's World date, rank 11/11/2019, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Oct 2019 UNITS SOLD: 10,191 YTD:	Oct 2019	10,191
5	Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman, Author, Terry Pratchett, Author William Morrow & Company, $7.99 (412) 978-0-06-085398-3 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 11/12/2018 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 07/08/2019 Average Rank 4.85 [details] Sales history for Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch date, rank 11/12/2018, 4 12/10/2018, 7 01/07/2019, 8 02/11/2019, 9 03/04/2019, 7 04/08/2019, 2 05/06/2019, 10 06/10/2019, 6 07/08/2019, 1 08/12/2019, 1 09/09/2019, 1 10/07/2019, 2 11/11/2019, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Nov 2006 UNITS SOLD: 4,236 YTD:	Nov 2006	4,236
6	The Fall of Gondolin J R R Tolkien, Author, Christopher Tolkien, Editor, Alan Lee, Illustrator Mariner Books, $16.99 (304) 978-0-358-13145-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 10/07/2019 Highest Rank 5 Highest Rank Date 10/07/2019 Average Rank 5.50 [details] Sales history for The Fall of Gondolin date, rank 10/07/2019, 5 11/11/2019, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2019 UNITS SOLD: 3,333 YTD:	Sep 2019	3,333
7	A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness, Author Penguin Books, (579) 978-0-14-311968-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 06/04/2012 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 03/04/2019 Average Rank 9.21 [details] Sales history for A Discovery of Witches date, rank 06/04/2012, 9 06/11/2012, 11 08/11/2014, 7 09/08/2014, 6 11/12/2018, 6 12/10/2018, 10 02/11/2019, 7 03/04/2019, 2 04/08/2019, 3 05/06/2019, 5 06/10/2019, 8 08/12/2019, 9 10/07/2019, 9 11/11/2019, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Dec 2011 UNITS SOLD: 3,195 YTD:	Dec 2011	3,195
8	Warrior of the Altaii Robert Jordan, Author Tor Books, $27.99 (384) 978-1-250-24765-0 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Oct 2019 UNITS SOLD: 3,161 YTD:	Oct 2019	3,161
9	Wasteland: The Children of d'Hara, Episode 3 Terry Goodkind, Author Head of Zeus, $13.95 (160) 978-1-78954-129-8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Oct 2019 UNITS SOLD: 2,978 YTD:	Oct 2019	2,978
10	The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, Author DAW, 978-0-7564-0474-1 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 11/10/2014 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/10/2016 Average Rank 5.82 [details] Sales history for The Name of the Wind date, rank 11/10/2014, 9 12/08/2014, 4 02/09/2015, 10 03/09/2015, 5 04/20/2015, 9 06/08/2015, 10 08/10/2015, 7 09/14/2015, 2 10/12/2015, 4 11/09/2015, 4 12/14/2015, 9 01/11/2016, 7 02/08/2016, 5 04/11/2016, 5 05/09/2016, 4 06/13/2016, 6 07/11/2016, 6 08/08/2016, 6 09/05/2016, 2 10/10/2016, 1 11/07/2016, 4 12/12/2016, 3 01/09/2017, 1 02/13/2017, 3 03/06/2017, 7 04/03/2017, 6 05/08/2017, 7 10/09/2017, 9 11/06/2017, 9 12/11/2017, 6 01/08/2018, 7 02/05/2018, 5 03/12/2018, 5 04/02/2018, 6 04/09/2018, 7 05/07/2018, 4 06/11/2018, 4 07/16/2018, 6 08/06/2018, 4 09/03/2018, 4 11/12/2018, 5 12/10/2018, 4 01/07/2019, 6 02/11/2019, 8 04/08/2019, 6 06/10/2019, 9 07/08/2019, 7 08/12/2019, 5 09/09/2019, 5 10/07/2019, 10 11/11/2019, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Apr 2008 UNITS SOLD: 2,839 YTD:	Apr 2008	2,839

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For the four-week period ended 10/26/19. Note: NPD BookScan flagged It’s How We Play the Game, #8 in Biography & Memoir, for significant bulk sales during at least one week of the Sept. 29–Oct. 26 time period.