Weekly Bestsellers, 19 August 2024

Among several debuts this week, three titles rank prominently. Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s Apprentice to the Villain (Entangled: Red Tower) ranks #1 or #2 on three lists. Harper L. Woods’ The Coven (Bramble) ranks #2 or #3 on two lists, and lower on a third. And James S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods (Orbit), first volume in The Captive’s War, ranks on four lists, as high as #8 or #9 on three of them.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.25
LAT
08.18
USAT
08.11
PW
08.19
Amz
(08.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.19)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aster, Nightbane 11.20.23 / 39 6 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Bradley, The Ministry of Time 05.20.24 / 13 xxx.. 7 + x xxx.. xxx..
Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi 03.13.23 / 4 xxx.. 138 +1 xxx..
Corey, The Mercy of Gods 08.19.24 / 1 9 ++ 9 ++ 29 ++ 8 ++
Dennings, This Ravenous Fate 08.19.24 / 1 9 ++
Durst, The Spellshop 07.22.24 / 5 13 -3 40 = 13 -4 xx
Grossman, The Bright Sword 07.29.24 / 3 xx 133 + xxx
King, You Like It Darker: Stories 05.06.24 / 16 14 -3 xxx.. 108 -42 14 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call 08.19.24 / 1 20 ++
Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us 07.22.24 / 5 7 -1 xxx.. xxx
Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us [expanded edition] 06.24.24 / 9 8 -3 xxx.. xxx
Linde, The Wren in the Holly Library 06.17.24 / 8 xxx.. 121 -18 xxx..
Moreno-Garcia, The Seventh Veil of Salome 08.19.24 / 1 6 ++
Reeves/Miéville, The Book of Elsewhere 07.22.24 / 5 x 10 -2 33 +75 18 -3 xxx.. xxx
Roberts, Powerful 05.06.24 / 16 xxx.. xxx.. 11 -1 xxx.. xxx..
Roberts, Powerless 11.20.23 / 40 xxx.. 47 -15 2 +2 xxx.. 67 -13 xxx
Roberts, Reckless 07.01.24 / 8 x 4 -1 xxx 74 -17 xx
Ross, Divine Rivals 04.17.23 / 57 5 -1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Woods, The Coven 08.19.24 / 1 2 ++ 17 ++ 3 ++
Yarros, Fourth Wing 05.15.23 / 67 4 +1 xxx.. 51 -16 xxx.. 50 +3 54 -16 61 -16
Yarros, Iron Flame 06.19.23 / 62 7 -1 xxx.. 45 -30 6 -1 54 -11 37 -4 33 -8
Yarros, Onyx Storm 04.01.24 / 21 7 = xxx.. 10 -5
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.25
LAT
08.18
USAT
08.11
PW
08.19
Amz
(08.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.19)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Armentrout, Deity [tpb] 08.19.24 / 1 46 ++ 6 ++
Armentrout, Half-Blood [tpb] 06.10.24 / 11 xxx.. 17 -2
Aster, Lightlark [tpb] 11.20.23 / 38 xxx.. xxx.. 13 -1
Blake, Masters of Death [tpb] 08.12.24 / 2 14 -1 11 =
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 422 xxx.. 72 +75 xxx.. 23 +19 xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb] 05.22.23 / 57 xxx.. 6 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Hawk/Van Alst, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology [tpb] 12.11.23 / 16 xxx.. 49 +5
Kuang, Yellowface [tpb] 09.18.23 / 24 xxx.. 36 -7 xxx..
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 188 xxx.. 66 + xxx.. 69 +14 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight [tpb] 04.10.23 / 58 xxx.. xxx.. 110 -50 83 +6 22 = x
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 148 10 -3 x 37 -7 55 -10 13 -6 50 -19
Maas, A Court of Silver Flames [tpb] 09.12.22 / 92 xxx.. 112 -37 xxx.. 82 +17 25 +1 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 179 5 -2 2 = 12 -8 xxx.. 27 -2 9 -4 22 +1
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set 06.19.23 / 59 xxx.. 39 -2 x 13 +2
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 106 14 -5 xxx.. 61 -13 xxx.. 58 +1 16 -3 x
Maas, Throne of Glass [tpb] 02.27.23 / 62 xxx.. xxx.. 82 -15 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain [tpb] 08.19.24 / 1 2 ++ 2 ++ 1 ++ 100 ++
Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen [tpb] 08.19.24 / 1 20 ++
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 97 xxx.. 63 +16 xxx.. xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 541 xxx.. xxx 65 +13 xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 393 xxx.. 70 +10
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
08.25
LAT
08.18
USAT
08.11
PW
08.19
Amz
(08.19)
UK:
Amz UK
(08.19)
Canada:
Amz.ca
(08.19)
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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