Weekly Bestsellers, 16 May 2022
Holly Black’s adult debut, Book of Night (Tor), debuts on four lists, ranking as high as #2 on the New York Times‘ fiction hardcover list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 May 2022
A new fantasy novel by T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone (Tor), debuts on the Publishers Weekly fiction hardcover list at #23. This is the first time Kingfisher, or Ursula Vernon, has ranked on any of the lists compiled here.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 2 May 2022
An anthology of stories set in the world of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer concept album and short film, The Memory Librarian (Harper Voyager), debuts on three lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 April 2022
Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility continues to rank strongly, at #3 on three lists, though Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House moves up to #2 on a single list.
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Locus Bestsellers, April 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for March include top titles Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US), and Star Wars: The High Republic: The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray (Del Rey),
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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 April 2022
Two big literary SF debuts this week: Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility (Knopf), ranking on six lists, as high as #2 on three of them; and Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House (Scribner), ranking on four lists, as high as #3 on two of them.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 April 2022
A World of Warcraft novel by Christie Golden, Sylvanas (Del Rey), debuts at #15 on the Publishers Weekly fiction hardcover list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 4 April 2022
While last week’s two debuts have dropped off lists after just a week, Peng Shepherd’s The Cartographers (Morrow) places on the USA Today list this week at #125, and the same list includes several volumes by J.R.R. Tolkien for the first time since this page has been compiled.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 March 2022
John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society (Tor) debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #4 on the Los Angeles Times list.
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And James S.A. Corey’s Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection (Orbit) debuts on two lists, as high as #8 on the Publishers Weekly list.
Weekly Bestsellers, 21 March 2022
Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Six (Tor), which debuted last week, ranks on three lists this week, as high as #10 on the Publishers Weekly list. And the trade paperback of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Vintage) debuts on two more lists this week.
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Locus Bestsellers, March 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Critical Role: Vox Machina: Kith &Kin by Marieke Nijkamp (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 14 March 2022
A new YA novel by V.E. Schwab, Gallant (Greenwillow), debuts at #1 on the New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list, and ranks #24 on the USA Today list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 7 March 2022
Of the four titles that debuted on lists last week, only two remain for a second week. Sarah J. Maas’ House of Sky and Breath drop off one list but remains on two others, while Marlan James’ Moon Witch, Spider King drop off one list but rises to #1 on the Los Angeles Times list. (Though it hasn’t appeared on USA Today‘s list either last week or this.)
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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 February 2022
Four debuts on print lists this week, beginning with Sarah J. Maas’ House of Sky and Breath (Bloomsbury), second in the Crescent City series, ranking #1 or #2 on all four lists. Next is Marlan James’ Moon Witch, Spider King (Riverhead), second in his Dark Star Trilogy, ranking as high as #4 on three lists.
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Stephen King and Richard Chizmar’s Gwendy’s Final Task (Cemetery Dance), third in that series, is
Weekly Bestsellers, 21 February 2022
The trade paperback edition of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (Orbit), published last October, hits one of these bestseller lists for the first time, ranking #10 on the LA Times fiction paperback list this week.
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Locus Bestsellers, February 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for January include top titles Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson (Morrow), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 14 February 2022
A new YA Star Wars novel, The High Republic: Midnight Horizon (Disney Lucasfilm) by Daniel José Older, debuts on two lists.
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Meanwhile, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library returns to the #1 slot at New York Times. And Sarah H. Maas’ House of Sky and Breath (Bloomsbury), to be published tomorrow, rises on all three Amazon lists.
Weekly Bestsellers, 7 February 2022
Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land hits #1 again on the LA Times list, for the eighth time since October 2021. (The LAT lists, it might be noted, are more volatile than the other print lists, where the Doerr novel has never reached #1. It did hit #2, one time each, on the NYT, PW, and USA Today lists.)
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Weekly Bestsellers, 31 January 2022
After over a year on various bestseller lists, Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library hits #1 on the New York Times list for the first time. (It reached #2 twice before, two weeks ago on 17 January, and last year on 15 April 2021.) The only other list it’s placed #1 is LA Times‘, five times in July and August 2021.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 24 January 2022
The trade paperback of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (Vintage) rises or reappears on a couple lists, including NYT‘s, as the Station Eleven miniseries has played on HBO over the past month.
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Locus Bestsellers, January 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for January include top titles The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (Del Rey), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), and Star Wars Visions: Ronin by Emma Mieko Candon (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 17 January 2022
Two titles debut this week: Claudia Gray’s Star Wars novel The Fallen Star (Del Rey), on three lists; and James Rollins’ The Starless Crown (Tor), on two.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 10 January 2022
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library remains in the top 20 on four lists, over a year since debuting among bestsellers.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 3 January 2022
A couple titles by Andrzej Sapkowski reappear in paperback rankings this week, presumably due to the premiere of Season 2 of “The Witcher” on Netflix last month.
Weekly Bestsellers, 27 December 2021
Titles by Kazuo Ishiguro, Andy Weir, and a couple others in paperback have moved up or come back onto lists, presumably the results of holiday shopping or inclusion on best-of-the-year lists.
Locus Bestsellers, December 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Starlight Enclave by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 20 December 2021
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land remain the highest ranking books on this list, the Haig book having ranked for just over a full year.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 December 2021
James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Falls (Orbit), last and ninth book in the authors’ series The Expanse, debuts in the top 10 on three lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 December 2021
Brandon Sanderson’s Cytonic (Delacorte), third book in his Skyward series, debuts on two lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 29 November 2021
Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock (Morrow) debuts on two lists, ranking #10 on the Los Angeles Times list, #22 at USA Today.
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Note that Publishers Weekly skips an issue this week.
Weekly Bestsellers, 22 November 2021
Various editions of Frank Herbert’s Dune and its sequels still occupy 8 spots on today’s chart. Titles and editions by J.K. Rowling: 15.
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Locus Bestsellers, November 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Starlight Enclave by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
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