Weekly Bestsellers, 1 March 2021

Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Silver Flames debuts spectacularly on print lists this week, ranking #1 on three of the four, though it’s dropped precipitously on the Amazon charts.

Meanwhile, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Knopf), released tomorrow, is selling today on the Amazon charts, and editions of Colin Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad are selling at Amazon, in anticipation of the Amazon TV series debuting in May.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.07
LAT
02.28
USAT
02.21
PW
03.01
Amz
(03.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.01)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Cline, Ready Player Two 07.13.20 / 19 x xxx.. 119 +2 15 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 46     xxx.. 15 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Gray, Star Wars The High Republic: Into the Dark 02.15.21 / 3 7 =   xx 23 -4      
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 20 3 = 3 +1 13 +2 3 +2 13 +14 xx xx
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 03.01.21 / 1         20 ++ 7 ++ 71 ++
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight 04.23.18 / 12     89 +48 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames 02.22.21 / 2 1 ++ 6 ++ 1 ++ 1 ++ 66 -47 x 64 -54
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 40     67 -10 5 = xx xxx.. xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 31 xxx.. 10 -1 xxx.. xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: MinaLima Edition 11.02.20 / 18     81 -20 11 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 16 1 +1   135 -54 6 = xxx.. x xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 20 6 = 5 +1 24 +3 5 +2 58 -23 xxx.. xx
Soule, Star Wars: Light of the Jedi 01.18.21 / 7 xxx xx xx 24 -4 xxx..    
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad 08.08.16 / 75 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 60 + xxx.. xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.07
LAT
02.28
USAT
02.21
PW
03.01
Amz
(03.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.01)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Coates, The Water Dancer [tpb] 11.30.20 / 7 xxx.. 5 +          
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 2           2 = 12 -1
Jones, The Only Good Indians [tpb] 02.08.21 / 4 x xxx   19 -1      
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 2     60 +        
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 14 xxx..   26 +75 17 +      
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 2     85 ++ xxx..      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 476   xxx.. 80 -22   42 -16 xxx.. 52 +17
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 89 xxx.. 10 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (UK)             84 +14  
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 245           xx 51 -3
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad [tpb] 02.12.18 / 20 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 1 +   8 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.07
LAT
02.28
USAT
02.21
PW
03.01
Amz
(03.01)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.01)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.01)
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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