A new fantasy novel by K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire (Ace), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #10 on the Publishers Weekly list.
Meanwhile, Powerless and Powerful by Lauren Roberts have disappeared from New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list, after ranking there for many weeks. With the publication of a third book in that series, Reckless, NYT has combined them into a single entry
Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Henry Holt), third and concluding volume in the author’s Legacy of Orisha series, debuts on two lists, ranking #1 on Publishers Weekly‘s Children’s Frontlist Fiction list.
The latest Mercy Thompson novel by Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Ace), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #12 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists.
Paul Tremblay’s novel Horror Movie (Morrow) debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #11 on the Publishers Weekly list.
Two fantasy novels debut this week: Carissa Broadbent’s The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Bramble), Book 2 of the Nigthborn Duet; and K.A. Linde’s The Wren in the Holly Library (Entangled: Red Tower Books). Both rank on the NY Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly lists, as high as 5th and 6th places, respectively.
Bumped out of first place by the latest John Grisham novel, Stephen King’s You Like It Darker: Stories ranks #2 on the three lists it debuted on last week, and debuts at #8 on the LA Times list this week.
As anticipated, Stephen King’s new collection, You Like It Darker: Stories debuts on print lists this week, ranking #1 on three of the four compiled here.
Stephen King’s new collection, You Like It Darker: Stories (Scribner), published last week, still ranks respectfully on the three Amazon lists today; look for it on print bestseller lists next week.
Two books debut prominently on lists this week. Mai Corland’s Five Broken Blades (Entangled: Red Tower Books), first in a series by an author who also publishes as Meredith Ireland, debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #3 on the NY Times fiction hardcover list. And Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time (Simon & Schuster/Avid Reader Press) debuts on four lists, ranking as high as #11 on the same
Lauren Roberts’s Powerful (Simon & Schuster), set in the world of earlier novel Powerless, debuts on three lists this week, ranking as high as #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.
Stephen King’s next book, You Like It Darker: Stories (Scribner), due May 21, ranks this morning on the three Amazon lists compiled here.
Slipping only a bit in the rankings, Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar remains among the top 10 fiction hardcovers on all four print lists compiled here.
Leigh Bardugo’s standalone fantasy novel The Familiar (Flatiron) debuts strongly, ranking #1 or #2 on all four print lists compiled here. Further down the lists is one other debut: Hannah Whitten’s The Hemlock Queen (Orbit), second in her Nightshade Crown series, ranking as high as #14 on the NYT list.
Three titles debut on lists this week. Kelly Andrew’s Your Blood, My Bones (Scholastic) ranks #9 on the New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list; F.T. Lukens’s Otherworldly (McElderry) is #10 on the same list; and Jennifer Thorne’s Diavola (Tor Nightfire) is #114 on the USA Today list.
Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake (Saga), third in his Indian Lake Trilogy, debuts on two lists this week.
The third book in Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean series, Onyx Storm (Entangled: Red Tower Books), is now available on the Amazon sites for pre-publication sales — it will be published Jan. 21, 2025. This morning it ranks #1 on Amazon.com and Amazon Canada, #10 on Amazon UK.
Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Damned (St. Martin’s), sequel to his Empire of the Vampire (2021), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #4 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists.
Meanwhile, just as editions of Frank Herbert’s Dune have returned to bestseller lists in recent weeks, the trade paperback of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem ranks on several lists today, as high as #7 on the
Holly Black’s The Prisoner’s Throne (Little, Brown), second book in her Elfhame series following The Stolen Heir, debuts on three lists, ranking #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list. All ten books on that list, this week, are genre titles.
A fantasy novel by Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Del Rey), debuts at #3 on both the USA Today and Publishers Weekly lists.
Several titles and sets of Frank Herbert’s series that begins with Dune (Ace), including a three-book boxed set and a six-book boxed set, are selling on the Amazon sites today. Two of them rank as high as #3.
Kelly Link’s The Book of Love (Random House) debuts on two lists this week, ranking as high as #2 at the L.A. Times. And T. Kingfisher’s What Feasts at Night (Tor Nightfire) debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #9 at Publishers Weekly.
Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow slips out of first place on the four print lists compiled here, but remains in the top 10 on all of them, and ahead of the two Rebecca Yarros novels.
As anticipated, Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow (Bloomsbury), third in the Crescent City series, debuts strongly — ranking at #1 — on all four print lists compiled here.
Published last Tuesday, Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow (Bloomsbury), third in the Crescent City series, still ranks on the Amazon lists this morning; expect it on the print lists next week.
Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Del Rey), second in her Emily Wilde series, debuts strongly on all four print lists compiled here.
Meanwhile, Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow, third in her Crescent City series, which has ranked on this page for nearly four months with Amazon pre-publication orders, is due for actual publication tomorrow.
Two new novels debut this week: Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Complex (Tor), conclusion of her Atlas trilogy; and Aurora Ascher’s Sanctuary of the Shadow (Entangled: Red Tower), first book in her Elemental Emergence series.
Rebecca Ross’s Ruthless Vows (Wednesday Books) is #1 on the YA lists of both New York Times and Publishers Weekly this week.
