Weekly Bestsellers, 4 April 2022


While last week’s two debuts have dropped off lists after just a week, Peng Shepherd’s The Cartographers (Morrow) places on the USA Today list this week at #125, and the same list includes several volumes by J.R.R. Tolkien for the first time since this page has been compiled.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.10
LAT
04.03
USAT
03.27
PW
04.04
Amz
(04.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.04)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Blake, The Atlas Six 03.21.22 / 3 x   x 16 -6      
Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land 10.04.21 / 27 xxx.. 8 -5 xxx.. 25 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 68 9 -2 4 +3 38 +4 xxx.. 52 -10 xxx.. xxx..
James, Moon Witch, Spider King 02.28.22 / 3 xxx.. 6 +   xxx..      
Maas, House of Sky and Breath 01.24.22 / 11 14 -3 xxx.. 60 -15 13 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xx
Meyer, Midnight Sun 05.25.20 / 68     xxx.. 14 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Schwab, Gallant 03.14.22 / 4 2 -1   xxx 13 -2      
Shepherd, The Cartographers 04.04.22 / 1     125 ++        
Tolkien, The Hobbit 12.03.12 / 29     63 + xxx.. xxx..   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.10
LAT
04.03
USAT
03.27
PW
04.04
Amz
(04.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.04)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armentrout, The War of Two Queens [tpb] 03.28.22 / 2     45 -44     x  
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 50           20 -4 54 =
Herbert, Dune 03.30.03 / 78   xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 51 +2
Huchu, The Library of the Dead [tpb] 03.21.22 / 3     x 20 -3      
Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun [tpb] 03.07.22 / 5 xx 1 +1   x   47 -9  
Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go [tpb] 03.28.06 / 89 xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 30     102 +12        
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 56 xxx..   58 -5 xxx.. xxx..    
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 28 14 = 4 + xxx..        
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 31 9 = xxx.. 82 -2   xxx.. xx xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [tpb] 07.09.18 / 106     148 +2 xxx..      
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 289           xxx.. 81 -24
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 77     xxx..   45 +19   xxx..
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [tpb] 04.04.22 / 1     86 ++        
Tolkien, The Return of the King   xxx.. xxx.. 100 + xxx..      
Tolkien, The Silmarillion       92 +   xxx.. xxx..  
Tolkien, The Two Towers     xxx.. 95 + xxx..      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.10
LAT
04.03
USAT
03.27
PW
04.04
Amz
(04.04)
UK:
Amz UK
(04.04)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(04.04)

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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