Weekly Bestsellers, 30 September 2024
After over a year on hardcover lists, Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing is now in trade paperback (Entangled: Red Tower Books) and ranks at the top of all four print lists compiled here.
After over a year on hardcover lists, Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing is now in trade paperback (Entangled: Red Tower Books) and ranks at the top of all four print lists compiled here.
TJ Klune’s Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Tor), second book in his Cerulean Chronicles, debuts strongly, ranking #1 on three of the print lists compiled here, and #3 on the fourth.
Five titles published on September 3rd debut on lists this week. Most prominent is Abigail Owen’s The Game Gods Play (Entangled: Red Tower Books), ranking #1 at New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Others include the US edition of Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible (Viking), on four print lists; Harper L. Woods’s The Cursed (Bramble), on three lists; and Tigest Girma’s YA Immortal Dark (Little, Brown), on three
Sarah Rees Brennan’s Long Live Evil (Orbit), first in the Time of Iron series, debuts at #15 on the USA Today list in its US trade paperback edition. The Orbit UK edition, in hardcover, was published earlier in August.
Two debuts this week. Frances White’s Voyage of the Damned (Mira) is #22 on Publishers Weekly‘s fiction hardcover list. And Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth (Tor), fifth book in his Stormlight Archive series, appears on two Amazon lists with pre-publication orders; the book is due December 6th.
Two debuts this week. Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Born of Blood and Ash (Blue Box Press), fourth in her Flesh and Fire series, debuts in the top five on three lists. And Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth (Del Rey), a retelling of Shakespeare with occult elements, debuts on all four print lists compiled here, ranking from #7 to #30.
Among several debuts this week, three titles rank prominently. Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s Apprentice to the Villain (Entangled: Red Tower) ranks #1 or #2 on three lists. Harper L. Woods’ The Coven (Bramble) ranks #2 or #3 on two lists, and lower on a third. And James S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods (Orbit), first volume in The Captive’s War, ranks on four lists, as high as #8 or #9 on
Though it slips in rankings, The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Miéville remains on all four print lists compiled here.
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Miéville (Del Rey) debuts on all four print lists compiled here, ranking among the top ten on three of them.
Three titles debut this week, most prominently Deborah Harkness’s The Black Bird Oracle (Ballantine), fifth book in her All Souls series that began with A Discovery of Witches in 2011. It ranks among the top ten on the four print lists compiled here. Also debuting: Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword (Viking), on three lists, and Stephen Graham Jones’s I Was a Teenage Slasher (Saga), on two.
Two books debut in the top ten on lists at New York Times and Publishers Weekly this week. Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop (Bramble) ranks #7 and #6 respectively, on fiction hardcover lists. And Tricia Levenseller’s The Darkness Within Us – second in a trilogy, following The Shadows Between Us, being released at monthly intervals by Feiwel & Friends – is #1 and #4 respectively, on young adult lists.
A new fantasy novel by K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire (Ace), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #10 on the Publishers Weekly list.
Meanwhile, Powerless and Powerful by Lauren Roberts have disappeared from New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list, after ranking there for many weeks. With the publication of a third book in that series, Reckless, NYT has combined them into a single entry
Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Henry Holt), third and concluding volume in the author’s Legacy of Orisha series, debuts on two lists, ranking #1 on Publishers Weekly‘s Children’s Frontlist Fiction list.
The latest Mercy Thompson novel by Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Ace), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #12 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists.
Two fantasy novels debut this week: Carissa Broadbent’s The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Bramble), Book 2 of the Nigthborn Duet; and K.A. Linde’s The Wren in the Holly Library (Entangled: Red Tower Books). Both rank on the NY Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly lists, as high as 5th and 6th places, respectively.
Bumped out of first place by the latest John Grisham novel, Stephen King’s You Like It Darker: Stories ranks #2 on the three lists it debuted on last week, and debuts at #8 on the LA Times list this week.
As anticipated, Stephen King’s new collection, You Like It Darker: Stories debuts on print lists this week, ranking #1 on three of the four compiled here.
Stephen King’s new collection, You Like It Darker: Stories (Scribner), published last week, still ranks respectfully on the three Amazon lists today; look for it on print bestseller lists next week.
Two books debut prominently on lists this week. Mai Corland’s Five Broken Blades (Entangled: Red Tower Books), first in a series by an author who also publishes as Meredith Ireland, debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #3 on the NY Times fiction hardcover list. And Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time (Simon & Schuster/Avid Reader Press) debuts on four lists, ranking as high as #11 on the same
Lauren Roberts’s Powerful (Simon & Schuster), set in the world of earlier novel Powerless, debuts on three lists this week, ranking as high as #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.
Stephen King’s next book, You Like It Darker: Stories (Scribner), due May 21, ranks this morning on the three Amazon lists compiled here.
Slipping only a bit in the rankings, Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar remains among the top 10 fiction hardcovers on all four print lists compiled here.
Leigh Bardugo’s standalone fantasy novel The Familiar (Flatiron) debuts strongly, ranking #1 or #2 on all four print lists compiled here. Further down the lists is one other debut: Hannah Whitten’s The Hemlock Queen (Orbit), second in her Nightshade Crown series, ranking as high as #14 on the NYT list.
Three titles debut on lists this week. Kelly Andrew’s Your Blood, My Bones (Scholastic) ranks #9 on the New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list; F.T. Lukens’s Otherworldly (McElderry) is #10 on the same list; and Jennifer Thorne’s Diavola (Tor Nightfire) is #114 on the USA Today list.
Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake (Saga), third in his Indian Lake Trilogy, debuts on two lists this week.