Weekly Bestsellers, 20 May 2024

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 NYT list.

Two YA novels also debut prominently: LaDarrion Williams’s Blood at the Root (Labyrinth Road), and Tracy Wolff’s Sweet Nightmare (Entangled: Teen), each on three lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.24
LAT
05.19
USAT
05.12
PW
05.20
Amz
(05.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aster, Nightbane 11.20.23 / 26 8 +1 xxx.. xx
Aster, Skyshade 05.20.24 / 1 18 ++ 13 ++
Bardugo, The Familiar 04.08.24 / 7 x 7 -1 81 -50 16 -7 xxx..
Black, The Prisoner’s Throne 03.18.24 / 10 10 -2 xxx.. xxx..
Bradley, The Ministry of Time 05.20.24 / 1 11 ++ 10 ++ 23 ++ 15 ++ 66 ++
Corland, Five Broken Blades 05.20.24 / 1 3 ++ 9 ++ 4 ++
King, You Like It Darker: Stories 05.06.24 / 3 21 +28 17 +41 38 -6
Maas, House of Flame and Shadow 08.28.23 / 31 x xxx.. xxx.. 18 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Paolini, Murtagh 10.30.23 / 30 9 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Roberts, Powerful 05.06.24 / 3 2 -1 74 -55 5 -3 68 ++ xx
Roberts, Powerless 11.20.23 / 27 1 +1 38 -2 4 = 15 +78 48 +19 71 +
Ross, Divine Rivals 04.17.23 / 44 6 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Ross, Ruthless Vows 01.01.24 / 21 7 -2 xxx.. 20 = xxx.. xxx..
Tolkien, The Silmarillion [Illustrated Edition] 11.21.22 / 5 xxx.. xxx.. 51 -5
Williams, Blood at the Root 05.20.24 / 1 5 ++ 75 ++ 11 ++
Wolff, Sweet Nightmare 05.20.24 / 1 3 ++ 56 ++ 7 ++
Yarros, Fourth Wing 05.15.23 / 54 7 -2 xxx.. 31 -8 x 17 +1 38 -5 52 -16
Yarros, Iron Flame 06.19.23 / 49 8 -1 xxx.. 44 -16 7 -1 19 +4 43 -19 14 -1
Yarros, Onyx Storm 04.01.24 / 8 53 -26 xx 18 +3
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.24
LAT
05.19
USAT
05.12
PW
05.20
Amz
(05.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Aster, Lightlark [tpb] 11.20.23 / 25 xxx.. xxx.. 14 -5
Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories [tpb] 05.20.24 / 1 21 ++
Gillig, One Dark Window [tpb] 11.06.23 / 23 114 -29 xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb] 05.22.23 / 50 xxx.. 5 -2 xx xxx.. 71 + xxx.. xxx..
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 91 xxx.. 134 -80 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Herbert, Dune [tpb] 11.01.21 / 29 8 -6 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Kuang, Yellowface [tpb] 09.18.23 / 11 xxx 7 +1 xxx..
Liu, The Three-Body Problem [tpb] 01.16.17 / 17 xxx.. 3 + 141 -82 xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight [tpb] 04.10.23 / 45 13 -2 xxx.. 67 -21 42 -7 41 -4 61 -27
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 135 4 -1 9 + 27 -2 26 -9 18 -3 33 -15
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 79 14 -1 61 -21 xxx.. xx 54 -18
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 166 2 = 2 -1 8 +1 xxx.. 12 -1 12 +2 36 -26
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set 06.19.23 / 46 xxx.. 24 -3 x 7 -4
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 93 11 -2 xxx.. 52 -22 xxx.. 30 -4 31 -10 98 -58
Maas, Crown of Midnight [tpb] 02.27.23 / 24 126 -24 xxx.. 43 +51
Maas, Empire of Storms [tpb] 12.04.23 / 12 xxx.. xxx.. 32 +
Maas, Heir of Fire [tpb] 12.04.23 / 14 xxx.. 40 +60
Maas, House of Earth and Blood [tpb] 03.15.21 / 30 xxx.. xxx.. 96 -35 xxx.. 83 + xxx..
Maas, House of Sky and Breath [tpb] 10.09.23 / 33 xxx 23 -5 95 +
Maas, Kingdom of Ash [tpb] 05.20.24 / 1 41 ++
Maas, Queen of Shadows [tpb] 12.04.23 / 15 xxx.. xxx.. 37 +53
Maas, The Assassin’s Blade [tpb] 02.27.23 / 30 108 -37 xxx.. 57 +
Maas, Throne of Glass [tpb] 02.27.23 / 49 xxx.. 57 -13 xxx.. 29 +47 xxx..
Maas, Tower of Dawn [tpb] 11.05.18 / 9 xxx.. xxx.. 38 ++
Piper CJ, The Deer and the Dragon [tpb] 05.20.24 / 1 22 ++ 19 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.24
LAT
05.19
USAT
05.12
PW
05.20
Amz
(05.20)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.20)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.20)
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]

The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

= same as last week

+/- change since last week

+ back on list

++ new on list

x no longer on list (number of x’s: weeks off list)

All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.


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