Weekly Bestsellers, 27 March 2023

Margaret Atwood’s new collection Old Babes in the Wood (Doubleday) debuted on the LA Times fiction hardcover list last week at #6, and ranks this week at #7, but so far has ranked on no other list. Amazon Canada ranks it at #109 this morning, just below the cutoff for this page.

The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.02
LAT
03.26
USAT
11.27
PW
03.27
Amz
(03.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.27)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed   10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood 03.20.23 / 2   7 -1          
Black, The Stolen Heir 01.16.23 / 11 4 -1     xxx      
Clare, Chain of Thorns 02.06.23 / 8       25 =   xxx.. xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 55       xxx.. 32 +48 xxx.. xxx..
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 33 x xxx.. [ 12 ] 13 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night 03.13.23 / 3 12 -2 x   10 -3      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.02
LAT
03.26
USAT
11.27
PW
03.27
Amz
(03.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.27)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Egan, The Candy House [tpb] 03.20.23 / 2   2 +1          
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 95           91 -40 91 -39
Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea [tpb] 02.01.21 / 23 xxx.. 9 +   xxx..      
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 77     [ 75 ]   57 =    
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 27 xxx..   [ 82 ] 18 -1 xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 106 xxx.. x [ 38 ] xxx.. 41 -3   81 +5
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 62 xxx.. 8 +          
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 532   xxx..     100 + xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 332           xxx.. 54 -10
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb] 06.08.15 / 127         91 -18   xxx..
Zhao, Iron Widow [tpb] 03.27.23 / 1       19 ++      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
04.02
LAT
03.26
USAT
11.27
PW
03.27
Amz
(03.27)
UK:
Amz UK
(03.27)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(03.27)
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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