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Already ranking on Amazon bestseller lists for 40 weeks now, and with publication due on January 21st, Rebecca Yarros’s Onyx Storm creeps upwards on the three Amazon lists this week, ranking #1 on Amazon.com this morning.

Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth drops a notch or two on the four print lists compiled here, but remains solidly in the top 10 on all of them.

Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth (Tor), fifth volume in his Stormlight Archive, debuts strongly on print lists, ranking #1 on three of them and #2 on the fourth.

Gregory Maguire’s Wicked returns to fiction hardcover bestseller lists in a Collector’s Edition with green sprayed edges (William Morrow), ranking as high as #10 on the NY Times list. Two other books return to lists in similar special editions: R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War Collector’s Edition and Harley Laroux’s Her Soul to Take: Deluxe Special Edition (Kensington).

Again this week two fantasy novels debut on three lists each: Carissa Broadbent’s The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Bramble), ranking as high as #3 on two lists; and Melissa Landers’s The Half King (Entangled: Red Tower Books), ranking as high as #12 on two lists.

Two fantasy novels debut this week: Mary E. Pearson’s The Courting of Bristol Keats (Flatiron), and Katee Robert’s Court of the Vampire Queen (Sourcebooks Casablanca), both ranking on three print lists.

The trade paperback edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (Anchor) returned to lists last week and this, ranking as high as #8 on the Los Angeles Times paperback fiction list.

A trend this past year has been for publishers to issue new hardcover “deluxe” editions of books. This week’s examples are Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes and Bookshops & Bonedust (both Tor). The new editions rank on three lists, as high as #12.

Debuts of original books this week are by Kerri Maniscalco, ranking #2 on two lists, and M.L. Wang, ranking #9 on two lists.

Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution (MCD) debuts solidly on all four print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #7 on the New York Times and Los Angles Times lists.

Other titles debuting this week are by Alex Aster, Richard Chizmar, Susanna Clarke, Kim Harrison, John Gwynne, and CJ Leede.

After 48 weeks on the bestseller charts, Christopher Paolini’s Murtagh is now out in a new deluxe edition, which ranks on three lists this week, at #1 on the New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list.

A fantasy novel by Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying (Bramble), first of a trilogy, debuts on three lists, ranking #2 on the fiction hardcover lists of New York Times and Publishers Weekly.

Sarah A. Parker’s When the Moon Hatched, published as a trade paperback earlier this year, is now in a hardcover edition from HarperCollins/Avon, and ranks on three lists, at #2 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Two other older titles in new editions also rank this week: Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Stenciled Edges).

Richard Powers’s new novel Playground (Norton) debuts on the four print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #3 on the LA Times list. Also debuting this week: Erin A. Craig’s The Thirteenth Child (Delacorte), ranking #1 on the NY Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list.

After over a year on hardcover lists, Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing is now in trade paperback (Entangled: Red Tower Books) and ranks at the top of all four print lists compiled here.

TJ Klune’s Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Tor), second book in his Cerulean Chronicles, debuts strongly, ranking #1 on three of the print lists compiled here, and #3 on the fourth.

Five titles published on September 3rd debut on lists this week. Most prominent is Abigail Owen’s The Game Gods Play (Entangled: Red Tower Books), ranking #1 at New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Others include the US edition of Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible (Viking), on four print lists; Harper L. Woods’s The Cursed (Bramble), on three lists; and Tigest Girma’s YA Immortal Dark (Little, Brown), on three

Sarah Rees Brennan’s Long Live Evil (Orbit), first in the Time of Iron series, debuts at #15 on the USA Today list in its US trade paperback edition. The Orbit UK edition, in hardcover, was published earlier in August.

Two debuts this week. Frances White’s Voyage of the Damned (Mira) is #22 on Publishers Weekly‘s fiction hardcover list. And Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth (Tor), fifth book in his Stormlight Archive series, appears on two Amazon lists with pre-publication orders; the book is due December 6th.

Two debuts this week. Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Born of Blood and Ash (Blue Box Press), fourth in her Flesh and Fire series, debuts in the top five on three lists. And Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth (Del Rey), a retelling of Shakespeare with occult elements, debuts on all four print lists compiled here, ranking from #7 to #30.