Weekly Bestsellers, 12 April 2021
A new YA novel by Leigh Bardugo, Rules of Wolves (Imprint), second in the King of Scars Duology, debuts on three lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 April 2021
The most enduring title on these lists in recent months is Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, now in its 25th week and still ranking #2 or #3 on three print lists here.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 29 March 2021
Patricia Briggs’ Wild Sign (Ace), sixth in the Alpha and Omega series, debuts strongly on three print lists.
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A limited one-volume edition of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (HarperCollins) with the author’s own illustrations, due in October, ranks on Amazon Canada’s list this morning.
Weekly Bestsellers, 22 March 2021
Near-future thriller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis (Penguin) debuts strongly on three print lists, while Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun remains strong in its second week, and Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library remains strong in its fifth month.
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Locus Bestsellers, March 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for March include top titles Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline, Dune by Frank Herbert, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View.
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Weekly Bestsellers: 15 March 2021
Three strong debuts this week, beginning with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Knopf), ranking #1 at LA Times and #3 at NY Times; Stephen King’s trade paperback original Later (Hard Case Crime), ranking #1 on two lists and #3 on two others; and Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Iron (McElderry), second in the Last Hours series, ranking #1 and #2 on two YA lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 8 March 2021
Karen Marie Moning’s Kingdom of Shadow and Light (Delacorte), 11th in her Fever series, debuts on three lists.
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Meanwhile, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower returns to three trade paperback lists.
Weekly Bestsellers, 1 March 2021
Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Silver Flames debuts spectacularly on print lists this week, ranking #1 on three of the four, though it’s dropped precipitously on the Amazon charts.
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Meanwhile, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Knopf), released tomorrow, is selling today on the Amazon charts, and editions of Colin Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad are selling at Amazon, in anticipation of the Amazon TV series debuting in May.
Weekly Bestsellers, 22 February 2021
Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Silver Flames (Bloomsbury), fifth in “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” ranks on all three Amazon lists this morning, and its anticipation has pulled a couple of the earlier books back onto the USA Today list. Meanwhile, a new Laurell K. Hamilton “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter” novel, Rafael (Berkley), debuts strongly on two lists.
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Locus Bestsellers, February 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles Rhythm of War and The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing), and Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, Anonymous, ed. (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 15 February 2021
A new YA Star Wars novel, Star Wars The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray (Disney Lucasfilm), debuts at #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 8 February 2021
Two titles rank on these lists for the first time: Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry of the Future (Orbit), ranking 8th on the L.A. Times fiction hardcover list, and Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians (Gallery) in trade paperback, 8th on the LAT fiction paperback list and 16th on the composite USA Today list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 1 February 2021
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue rises again on all four print lists compiled here, ranking as high as #1 on the Publishers Weekly list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 January 2021
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is the highest ranking adult novel this week, at #3 on the Los Angeles Times list.
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Locus Bestsellers, January 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for January include top titles Battle Ground by Jim Butcher, Dune by Frank Herbert, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 January 2021
A new Star Wars novel by Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi (Del Rey), debuts on three print lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 January 2021
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ascends into the top 10 on three print lists, while the #1 selling title on Amazon.com this morning is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 4 January 2021
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two still ranks #2 on two lists. Note there is no Publishers Weekly issue this week.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 December 2020
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue returns to several lists this week.
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Locus Bestsellers, December 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Dune by Frank Herbert, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 14 December 2020
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two remains #1 on two print lists, and in the top 10 on two others.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 7 December 2020
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two (Ballantine) debuts very impressively, ranking #1 on three print lists compiled here, and #2 on the fourth (behind Barack Obama).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 30 November 2020
Brandon Sanderson’s Rhythm of War (Tor) debuts impressively, ranking #1 or #2 on the four print lists compiled here.
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Note that J.K. Rowling’s The Ickabog is ranked by NYT on its Middle Grade Hardcover list, rather than its Young Adult Hardcover list, which is usually the only NYT children’s list compiled here.
Locus Bestsellers, November 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor), and Forgotten Realms: Relentless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 November 2020
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Grand Central) reaches #1 on the L.A. Times fiction paperback list. Meanwhile, V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue again ranks on all four print lists this week.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 November 2020
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue remains in the top 10 on two lists this week.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 November 2020
Terry Brooks’ The Last Druid (Del Rey) and Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner) debut on two lists each, as does a special “MinaLima” edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
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Locus Bestsellers, October 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for October include top titles Peace Talks by Jim Butcher (Ace), The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US), and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 19 October 2020
V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Tor) debuts strongly on three lists. Novels by Alice Hoffman, Dean Koontz, and Megan Whalen Turner also debut.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 12 October 2020
Jim Butcher’s latest Dresden Files novel, Battle Ground (Ace), debuts at #2 on three print lists. Novels by Matt Haig and Naomi Novik also debut.
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