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Weekly Bestsellers, 1 June 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic) debuts at #1 on two print lists. (New York Times won’t list it individually; The Hunger Games is #1 this week on its Children’s Series list.)

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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 May 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes published last Tuesday, is riding even higher on Amazon lists this week than last. Look for it on print lists next week.

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Locus Bestsellers, May 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for May include top titles Agency by William Gibson, Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs, The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, and Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 May 2020

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Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), to be published tomorrow, sits at or near the top of all three Amazon lists today.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 May 2020

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Lawrence Wright’s pandemic thriller The End of October (Knopf) debuts on four lists.
The complete L.A. Times list seems to have moved behind the paywall, though a shorter, hardcover-only list is in the sidebar of this page.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 4 May 2020

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Stephen King’s four-novella collection If It Bleeds (Scribner) debuts strongly on three lists.
L.A. Times is missing a list this week.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 27 April 2020

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John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox (Tor) debuts on two lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 20 April 2020

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Veronica Roth’s Chosen Ones (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) debuts on three lists.

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Locus Bestsellers, April 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for April include top titles Agency by William Gibson, Dune by Frank Herbert, Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski, and Forgotten Realms: Timeless by R.A. Salvatore.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 April 2020

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A new thriller by Dean Koontz, Devoted (Thomas & Mercer), debuts on this week’s Publishers Weekly list.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 April 2020

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N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (Orbit) debuts on three lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 30 March 2020

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Two titles debuts strongly. Patricia Briggs’ Smoke Bitten (Ace) ranks as high as #3 on the USA Today list. And Rae Carson’s Star Wars novelization The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (Del Rey) hits #2 on the Publishers Weekly list.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 23 March 2020

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New titles by Cassandra Clare and Sarah J. Maas slip from the debut positions last week but still rank significantly. Again this week, the hourly-updated bestseller lists on Amazon sites, especially in the US and Canada, are overwhelmed by orders for children’s books.

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Locus Bestsellers, March 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for March include top titles Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and Star Wars: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 March 2020

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New titles by Cassandra Clare (Chain of Gold) and Sarah J. Maas (House of Earth and Blood) leap to the top of bestseller lists this week. Meanwhile, as schools shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the hourly-updated bestseller lists on Amazon sites, especially in the US and Canada, are overwhelmed by orders for children’s books.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 March 2020

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Three titles debut on lists this week, though none impressively. Eoin Colfer’s Highfire (Harper Perennial) is #17 at LA Times, Seanan McGuire’s Imaginary Numbers (DAW) is #65 at USA Today, and Ben Aaronovitch’s False Value (DAW) is #84 at USA Today.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 2 March 2020

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YA novels by Sarah J. Maas and Cassandra Clare, House of Earth and Blood (Bloomsbury) and Chain of Gold (McElderry) respectively, due for publication tomorrow, are bestsellers already on Amazon sites with preorders.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 24 February 2020

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Melissa de la Cruz’ The Queen’s Assassin (Putnam) debuts on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.

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Locus Bestsellers, February 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles The Burning White by Brent Weeks (Orbit US); The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW); The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US); and Forgotten Realms: Boundless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).

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Weekly Bestsellers, 17 February 2020

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The trade paperback of Richard Powers’ The Overstory is still going strong, nearly a year after publication.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 10 February 2020

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William Gibson’s Agency rises on the LA Times list but slips on the three other print lists compiled here.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 3 February 2020

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William Gibson’s Agency (Berkley) debuts solidly on all four print lists compiled here.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 27 January 2020

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Titles by Ilona Andrews, Charlaine Harris, and Ransom Riggs debut this week, Andrews’ novella Sweep with Me (NYLA) ranking #3 on the USA Today list.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 20 January 2020

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C.J. Cherryh’s Resurgence (DAW), the 20th title in her long-running Foreigner series, makes it onto this week’s USA Today list. This is the first Cherryh title to appear on any list compiled on these pages since they began in 2003.

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Locus Bestsellers, January 2020

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The Locus Bestsellers for January include top titles A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US); Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow); and Forgotten Realms: Boundless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).

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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 January 2020

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Little changes this week, but notable is that the trade paperback of Richard Powers’ The Overstory has been on lists 40 weeks in a row since the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in April 2019.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 6 January 2020

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Most genre titles slip on lists this week, though several titles by Andrzej Sapkowski, especially The Last Wish (Orbit), still dominate several lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 30 December 2019

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Seven different individual titles and sets of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski rank on Amazon lists today, with The Witcher Boxed Set: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire (Orbit) ranking #1 this morning at Amazon.ca.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 23 December 2019

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Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Virtue and Vengeance still ranks #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.

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Locus Bestsellers, December 2019

December 18, 2019December 3, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing); Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson (Tor); To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US); and Forgotten Realms: Boundless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).

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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 December 2019

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Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Henry Holt), second in her Legacy of Orisha series, debuts strongly, ranking #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 December 2019

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Nora Roberts’ The Rise of Magicks (St. Martin’s), third in her Chronicles of the One, and Brandon Sanderson’s Starsight (Delacorte), second in his YA Skyward series, both debut strongly.

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