Weekly Bestsellers, 29 July 2024

Three titles debut this week, most prominently Deborah Harkness’s The Black Bird Oracle (Ballantine), fifth book in her All Souls series that began with A Discovery of Witches in 2011. It ranks among the top ten on the four print lists compiled here. Also debuting: Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword (Viking), on three lists, and Stephen Graham Jones’s I Was a Teenage Slasher (Saga), on two.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.04
LAT
07.28
USAT
07.21
PW
07.29
Amz
(07.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.29)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy 07.08.24 / 4 xx 18 -2
Aster, Nightbane 11.20.23 / 36 5 +1 xxx.. x
Bradley, The Ministry of Time 05.20.24 / 10 xxx.. xxx 136 + xxx.. xxx..
Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter 03.04.24 / 15 10 + xxx.. xxx..
Durst, The Spellshop 07.22.24 / 2 x 10 -4 55 ++
Grossman, The Bright Sword 07.29.24 / 1 4 ++ 28 ++ 15 ++
Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle 07.29.24 / 1 2 ++ 6 ++ 3 ++ 2 ++
Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher 07.29.24 / 1 82 ++ 22 ++
King, You Like It Darker: Stories 05.06.24 / 13 9 +3 xxx.. 58 -11 7 +3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us 07.22.24 / 2 2 -1 x 19 -15
Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us [expanded edition] 06.24.24 / 6 3 = xxx.. 25 -8
Paolini, Murtagh 10.30.23 / 40 8 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Reeves/Mi ville, The Book of Elsewhere 07.22.24 / 2 x 90 +1
Roberts, Powerful 05.06.24 / 13 xxx xxx.. 6 = xxx.. xxx..
Roberts, Powerless 11.20.23 / 37 xxx 7 +9 2 = xxx 50 -6 69 -6
Roberts, Reckless 07.01.24 / 5 55 -48 1 = 72 -27 44 -14 40 -4
Ross, Divine Rivals 04.17.23 / 54 1 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Ross, Ruthless Vows 01.01.24 / 31 7 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Song, The Night Ends with Fire 07.15.24 / 3 xx 84 -29 20 -2
Tingle, Bury Your Gays 07.22.24 / 2 81 -23
Tolkien, The Hobbit Illustrated by the Author 10.02.23 / 3 16 + xxx..
Wolff, Sweet Nightmare 05.20.24 / 11 9 = xxx.. xxx..
Yarros, Fourth Wing 05.15.23 / 64 4 +1 xxx.. 18 +9 xxx.. 42 +1 39 +10 60 -13
Yarros, Iron Flame 06.19.23 / 59 6 = xxx.. 15 +36 6 -1 30 +3 33 +9 25 -1
Yarros, Onyx Storm 04.01.24 / 18 5 -3 xx 3 -2
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.04
LAT
07.28
USAT
07.21
PW
07.29
Amz
(07.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.29)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armentrout, Half-Blood [tpb] 06.10.24 / 8 x 13 -1
Armentrout, Pure [tpb] 07.22.24 / 2 21 -14
Aster, Lightlark [tpb] 11.20.23 / 35 xxx.. xxx.. 8 +1
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 419 xxx.. x xxx.. 68 +12 xxx.. xxx..
Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief [tpb] 07.29.24 / 1 150 ++
Hawk/Van Alst, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology [tpb] 12.11.23 / 13 xxx.. 95 +8
Kuang, Yellowface [tpb] 09.18.23 / 21 xxx.. 17 +7 xxx..
Lam, Dragonfall [tpb] 07.29.24 / 1 143 ++
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight [tpb] 04.10.23 / 55 x xxx.. 90 -12 60 -8 19 +21 95 +
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 145 11 -4 xxx.. 30 +8 31 -1 10 +1 33 +15
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 89 xxx.. 94 -22 xxx.. 58 = 26 +12 xxx
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 176 3 = 3 = 4 +2 xxx.. 14 -1 7 -3 32 -9
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set 06.19.23 / 56 xxx.. 33 -8 81 -10 6 -2
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 103 x xxx.. 66 -6 xxx.. 41 = 16 +3 79 +
Maas, Throne of Glass [tpb] 02.27.23 / 59 xxx.. xxx.. 68 +3 xxx.. x xxx..
Martin, Fire & Blood: A History of House Targaryen of Westeros, Volume 1 09.27.21 / 22 xxx.. xxx.. xx 61 +39
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 538 xxx.. 36 + 67 +11 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 390 xxx.. 80 +12
Tingle, Camp Damascus [tpb] 07.29.24 / 1 100 ++
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.04
LAT
07.28
USAT
07.21
PW
07.29
Amz
(07.29)
UK:
Amz UK
(07.29)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.29)
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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