Weekly Bestsellers, 22 May 2023

After two and a half years on bestsellers lists in its hardcover edition, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library debuts on lists in its Penguin trade paperback edition this week.
Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing still ranks #3 on two lists in its second week on charts.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.28
LAT
05.21
USAT
11.27
PW
05.22
Amz
(05.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.22)
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 / 18 10 +     xxx..      
Bracken, Silver in the Bone 04.17.23 / 6 6 +3            
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 04.13.20 / 62       xxx.. 39 -13 xxx.. xxx
King, Fairy Tale 08.15.22 / 39 xxx.. xxx.. [ 12 ] 24 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Klune, In the Lives of Puppets 05.08.23 / 3 xx 10 -5   23 -4      
Yarros, Fourth Wing 05.15.23 / 2 3 -1     3 = 19 +8 36 +24 17 +66
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.28
LAT
05.21
USAT
11.27
PW
05.22
Amz
(05.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.22)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes [tpb] 05.01.23 / 4           31 +6 x
Egan, The Candy House [tpb] 03.20.23 / 10   6 -5          
El-Mohtar/Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War [tpb] 09.20.21 / 4 9 ++ xxx..     43 -33   65 -52
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb] 05.22.23 / 1 15 ++ 10 ++   9 ++      
Haig, The Midnight Library (UK) [tpb] 02.22.21 / 103           74 +2 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 85     [ 75 ]   89 -34   xxx
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 34 xxx..   [ 82 ] 23 + xxx..    
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 114 xxx.. xxx.. [ 38 ] xxx.. 62 -26   79 -22
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb] 09.06.21 / 78 xxx.. 7 + [ 69 ]   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 339           xxx.. 71 +
Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue [tpb] 04.24.23 / 5 xx 5 ++   17 +2      
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
05.28
LAT
05.21
USAT
11.27
PW
05.22
Amz
(05.22)
UK:
Amz UK
(05.22)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.22)
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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