Weekly Bestsellers, 29 March 2021

Patricia Briggs’ Wild Sign (Ace), sixth in the Alpha and Omega series, debuts strongly on three print lists.

A limited one-volume edition of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (HarperCollins) with the author’s own illustrations, due in October, ranks on Amazon Canada’s list this morning.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.04
LAT
03.28
USAT
03.21
PW
03.29
Amz
(03.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.29)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Ackerman/Stavridis, 2034: A Novel of the Next World War 03.22.21 / 2 x   79 -59 14 -11 x    
Briggs, Wild Sign 03.29.21 / 1 9 ++   2 ++ 9 ++      
Clare, Chain of Iron 03.08.21 / 4 2 -1   138 -78 5 =     xxx
Cline, Ready Player Two 07.13.20 / 21 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 21 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 49     xxx.. 24 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 24 4 -1 2 = 15 +4 4 = 12 = xxx.. xxx..
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 03.01.21 / 5 5 -1 1 = 22 +7 5 +2 x 12 +2 xxx
King, If It Bleeds 04.13.20 / 38 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 23 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames 02.22.21 / 6 12 +1 8 + 55 -10 12 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 44     61 +40 7 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Riggs, The Desolations of Devil’s Acre 03.08.21 / 4       14 =      
Rowling, The Ickabog 11.16.20 / 20 1 +1   144 + 9 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10.12.20 / 24 6 +4 7 -3 46 +8 11 -1 81 -21 xxx.. xx
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings [with author’s illustrations] (UK) 03.29.21 / 1             58 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.04
LAT
03.28
USAT
03.21
PW
03.29
Amz
(03.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.29)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Butler, Parable of the Sower [tpb] 07.06.20 / 13 xxx 6 +3 xxx        
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 6           1 +1 12 +7
King, Later [tpb] 03.15.21 / 3 1 = 3 -1 11 -4 1 = 47 -18 x 40 -15
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 154   xxx.. 118 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 18 xxx..   96 -2 15 +2      
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 480   xxx.. 121 -10   96 -35 xxx.. 93 -5
Powers, The Overstory [tpb] 04.15.19 / 91 xxx.. 9 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 64     119 + xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.04
LAT
03.28
USAT
03.21
PW
03.29
Amz
(03.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.29)
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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