Weekly Bestsellers, 13 September 2021
A new volume by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Carl F. Hostetter, The Nature of Middle-earth (Mariner Books), debuts on two lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 September 2021
Two titles by Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (Ecco trade paperback; first published in 2012) and Circe (Back Bay trade paperback; first published in 2018), previously untracked here, are added this week. The Song of Achilles is notable for ranking #1 on this week’s LA Times paperback list (and ranking on three other lists), not because a film or TV version is imminent, but apparently, according to Wikipedia, due
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Weekly Bestsellers, 30 August 2021
First in a new series by Laurell K. Hamilton, A Terrible Fall of Angels (Berkley), debuts this week on two lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 23 August 2021
Long-running bestselling titles by Matt Haig, V.E. Schwab, and Andy Weir rise on several lists this week, presumably after more transient titles have appeared on lists and dropped away.
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(Note that “#wks on any list” counts below are incomplete, as this page was not posted from late April to mid June of this year.)
Locus Bestsellers, August 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for August 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 Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 August 2021
Stephen King’s latest novel, Billy Summers (Scribner) is at the top of several lists today, but will not be tracked on these pages since the novel appears to be a straightforward thriller, not SF, fantasy, or horror.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 August 2021
A young adult Star Wars novel by Justina Ireland, The High Republic: Out of the Shadows (Disney Lucasfilm), debuts on two lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 2 August 2021
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is again the highest ranking title on the chart, rising slightly this week on all four print lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 26 July 2021
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is again the highest ranking title on the chart, ranking on all four print lists and on Amazon.com this morning.
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Locus Bestsellers, July 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for July include top titles The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 19 July 2021
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is again the highest ranking title on the chart, ranking on all four print lists and on Amazon.com this morning.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 12 July 2021
A new Star Wars novel by Cavan Scott, The Rising Storm, debuts prominently on three lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 July 2021
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary remains prominent on several lists after two months. Meanwhile Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library and V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue have each been on lists for 29 weeks, some seven months.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 June 2021
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (Ballantine, May 4), remains on lists after almost two months.
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(Changes from last week, typically indicated with + and ++, are not shown on this page since pages have not been compiled for several weeks.)
Locus Bestsellers, June 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for June include top titles The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central), and Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule (Del Rey).
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Locus Bestsellers, May 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for May include top titles A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule (Del Rey).
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Locus Bestsellers, April 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for April include top titles The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 19 April 2021
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library still reigns, ranking in the top 10 on all four print lists compiled here, and #1 this morning on Amazon UK.
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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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