Weekly Bestsellers, 13 March 2023

Two fantasy novels debut this week, beginning with Samantha Shannon’s A Day of Fallen Night (Bloomsbury), a stand-alone prequel to her 2019 The Priory of the Orange Tree, ranking among the top 5 on three lists. Then Shannon Chakraborty’s The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Harper Voyager), first in a new series, ranking among the top 10 of two lists.

The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.19
LAT
03.12
USAT
11.27
PW
03.13
Amz
(03.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.13)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Black, The Stolen Heir 01.16.23 / 9 5 -2     x      
Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi 03.13.23 / 1 8 ++     10 ++      
Clare, Chain of Thorns 02.06.23 / 6       17 -7   xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 53       xxx.. 83 + xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library 10.12.20 / 112 12 +2 xxx.. [ 136 ] xxx.. x xxx.. xxx..
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 31 13 -1 xxx.. [ 12 ] 9 +2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rushdie, Victory City 02.20.23 / 4 xx 8 -3   xx      
Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night 03.13.23 / 1 3 ++ 5 ++   3 ++      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.19
LAT
03.12
USAT
11.27
PW
03.13
Amz
(03.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.13)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 93           59 +4 72 +1
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 75     [ 75 ]   60 +8    
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 25 xxx..   [ 82 ] 17 +2 xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 104 xxx.. 10 + [ 38 ] xxx.. 50 -2   91 -13
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 37     [ 98 ] xxx.. 99 +    
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 61 xxx.. 3 +          
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 330           xxx.. 37 -5
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 125         59 -9   xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
03.19
LAT
03.12
USAT
11.27
PW
03.13
Amz
(03.13)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.13)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.13)
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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