Weekly Bestsellers, 20 November 2023

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Rebecca Yarros’s Iron Flame (Entangled: Red Tower Books), second in her series The Empyrean following Fourth Wing, debuts at #1 on all four print lists compiled here, after several months of ranking on the Amazon lists with pre-publication orders.

And Travis Baldree’s Bookshops & Bonedust (Tor), set in the world of his earlier novel Legends & Lattes, debuts on the same four print lists, ranking #1 on (the trade paperback lists) of two of them.

Also debuting this week on print lists: titles by Alex Aster, Jim Butcher, Susan Dennard, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kevin Hearn, Christopher Paolini, Lauren Roberts, and Heather Fawcett.

Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 11.26	LAT 11.19	USAT 11.12	PW 11.20	Amz (11.20)	UK: Amz UK (11.20)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed		10×3	10×2	150	15×3	100	100	100
Hardcovers
Aster, Nightbane	11.20.23 / 1			31 ++
Butcher, The Olympian Affair	11.20.23 / 1	15 ++		88 ++	10 ++
Clare, Sword Catcher	10.23.23 / 5	xx		xxx	21 +1
Dennard, The Hunting Moon	11.20.23 / 1	9 ++		49 ++
Hamilton, Slay	11.20.23 / 1			47 ++	12 ++
Hearne, A Curse of Krakens	11.20.23 / 1			58 ++
King, Holly	08.28.23 / 13	8 -2	xxx..	71 -33	9 -4	97 +	xxx..	x
Lacelle, Curious Tides	10.16.23 / 6	10 -7
Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen	10.16.23 / 5	xxx..		xxx..	24 +
Paolini, Eragon: The Illustrated Edition	11.20.23 / 1			87 ++
Paolini, Murtagh	10.30.23 / 4	1 ++		2 ++		36 -13		63 +22
Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories (UK)	10.09.23 / 7						62 +1
Roberts, Powerless	11.20.23 / 1	3 ++
Ross, Divine Rivals	04.17.23 / 18	5 -3		92 -20	x			xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: MinaLima Edition	10.02.23 / 8			131 +	x	65 +	xxx..	38 +7
Yarros, Fourth Wing	05.15.23 / 28	2 +1	2 =	5 =	2 +1	2 -1	23 =	13 -6
Yarros, Iron Flame	06.19.23 / 23	1 ++	1 ++	1 +14	1 ++	6 -3	19 -17	41 -23
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 11.26	LAT 11.19	USAT 11.12	PW 11.20	Amz (11.20)	UK: Amz UK (11.20)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Aster, Lightlark [tpb]	11.20.23 / 1	2 ++		67 ++
Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust [tpb]	11.20.23 / 1	1 ++	2 ++	9 ++	1 ++
Baldree, Legends & Lattes [tpb]	11.21.22 / 15	xxx..	xxx..	50 +	xxx..
Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes [tpb]	05.01.23 / 23			22 +7	xxx..	1 +12	9 +41	8 +24
Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries [tpb]	11.20.23 / 1		5 ++
Gillig, One Dark Window [tpb]	11.06.23 / 3			145 -42
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb]	05.22.23 / 27	xxx..	xx	xxx..	16 +1	xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
King, The Body [tpb]	11.13.23 / 2			24 -5
Kuang, Babel [tpb]	09.11.23 / 9	xxx..	9 +	xx	xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb]	05.14.18 / 109		xxx..	84 -40		86 -14		xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb]	05.16.16 / 140	xxx..	x	12 +8	xxx..	29 -1	xxx..	68 +5
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set	06.19.23 / 20					19 +14		16 +1
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb]	05.14.18 / 67			115 -2	xxx..	xx		xxx..
Maas, House of Sky and Breath [tpb]	10.09.23 / 7				13 +6
Maas, The Assassin’s Blade [tpb]	02.27.23 / 6			125 +19	19 +
Maas, Throne of Glass [tpb]	02.27.23 / 23			111 +6	11 +3
Miller, The Song of Achilles [tpb]	09.06.21 / 95	xxx..	3 +	xxx..		xxx..	xxx..	xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb]	03.23.15 / 363						xxx..	26 =
Rowling, Harry Potter Paperback Box Set [tpb]	06.08.15 / 136			xxx..		51 +16		xxx..
Title	Debut / #wks on any list	NYT 11.26	LAT 11.19	USAT 11.12	PW 11.20	Amz (11.20)	UK: Amz UK (11.20)	Canada: Amz.ca (11.20)
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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