
Every week, the New York Times and Amazon posts the top ten bestselling books. The New York Times gets their numbers from print sales from retailers, while Amazon calculates their own numbers. Once a month the Nielsen Bookscan posts their top twenty graphic novels of which manga is included. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, along with some way-off analysis of the activity.

New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending January 2, 2016
Tokyo Ghoul Vol 1 ↑ 2- One-Punch Man Vol 1 ↓ 1
- One-Punch Man Vol 3 ↑ 1
- One-Punch Man Vol 2 ↑ 4
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol 4 ↓ 3
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol 3 ↑ 3
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol 2 ↓ 2
- Attack on Titan Vol 17 ↓ 2
- Naruto Vol 72 ↑ 1
- Attack on Titan Vol 1 ↓ 3
New week, same titles. No new titles made to the list this week, but there was still plenty of movement. The top title switched out again as Tokyo Ghoul Vol 1 retook the top spot. The One-Punch Man Vols bunched up right behind it and were followed by the remaining Tokyo Ghoul Vols. Both Attack on Titan Vols held on, with Vol 1 hitting week 120 on the NYT.

Amazon.com for the week ending January 9, 2016
One-Punch Man Vol 1 ↔ 10- One-Punch Man Vol 4 ↑ 2
- One-Punch Man Vol 2 ↓ 1
- Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring ↑ 2
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol 1 ↑ 2
- One-Punch Man Vol 3 ↓ 3
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol 4 ↓ 2
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol 3 ↔
- Tokyo Ghoul Vol 2 ↔
- One-Punch Man Vol 5 ∗
Very little changed here as well. One-Punch Man Vol 1 holds the top spot for the 11th week in a row, but Vols 2 and 3 makes some moves down. The new Naruto sequel, The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring moves up into the top 5. Tokyo Ghoul only gets Vol 1 into the top 5 as well, although Vols 2 and 3 hold their ground. There is one new title debuting, and it should be of little surprise that it is the pre-order for the new One-Punch Man Vol 5 due out in March.
∗ = New Release
↑ = Title moved up specified # of spots
↓ = Title moved down specified # of spots
↔ = Title didn’t moved from previous week with total # of weeks
↵ = Title returned after dropping off list with total # of weeks (when available)
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