Weekly Bestsellers: 15 March 2021

Three strong debuts this week, beginning with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Knopf), ranking #1 at LA Times and #3 at NY Times; Stephen King’s trade paperback original Later (Hard Case Crime), ranking #1 on two lists and #3 on two others; and Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Iron (McElderry), second in the Last Hours series, ranking #1 and #2 on two YA lists.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.21
LAT
03.14
USAT
03.07
PW
03.15
Amz
(03.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.15)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Clare, Chain of Iron 03.08.21 / 2 1 ++   19 ++ 2 ++     x
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 22 6 -3 3 -1 36 -16 6 -3 12 -5 xxx.. xxx..
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 03.01.21 / 3 3 ++ 1 ++ 25 ++ 5 ++ 37 -15 12 -2 x
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames 02.22.21 / 4 10 -8 xx 48 -42 7 -5 xx xxx xx
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 42     131 -36 9 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic 07.13.20 / 33 xxx.. 8 -3 xxx.. xxx..      
Riggs, The Desolations of Devil’s Acre 03.08.21 / 2       14 -13      
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: MinaLima Edition 11.02.20 / 20     143 -31 x xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 18 3 -1   x 11 -3 xxx.. xxx xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 22 12 -6 6 +4 82 -40 11 -4 64 +5 xxx.. 38 -8
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.21
LAT
03.14
USAT
03.07
PW
03.15
Amz
(03.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.15)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 4           2 = 13 +2
John Mandel, The Glass Hotel [tpb] 03.15.21 / 1   7 ++          
King, Later [tpb] 03.15.21 / 1 1 ++ 3 ++ 3 ++ 1 ++ 20 ++ 61 ++ 69 ++
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 16 xxx..   142 -80 22 -11      
Maas, House of Earth and Blood [tpb] 03.15.21 / 1       25 ++      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 478   xxx.. 102 -28   43 = xxx.. 79 -17
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 247           xxx.. 73 -13
Whitehead, The Underground Railroad [tpb] 02.12.18 / 22 2 + 6 + 52 + xxx.. x   xx
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.21
LAT
03.14
USAT
03.07
PW
03.15
Amz
(03.15)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.15)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.15)
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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