Weekly Bestsellers, 13 March 2023

Two fantasy novels debut this week, beginning with Samantha Shannon’s A Day of Fallen Night (Bloomsbury), a stand-alone prequel to her 2019 The Priory of the Orange Tree, ranking among the top 5 on three lists. Then Shannon Chakraborty’s The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Harper Voyager), first in a new series, ranking among the top 10 of two lists.

The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 24 October 2022

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition, by J.K. Rowling with illustrations by Jim Kay and Neil Packer, debuts on two print lists this week at #1. (Presumably it will never be listed separately by the New York Times, which subsumes all Harry Potter titles into a single entry on its Children’s Series list.)

A new volume of Game of Thrones history, The Rise of

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Weekly Bestsellers, 17 October 2022

The fifth illustrated edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition (Scholastic), already ranking on Amazon lists for three months with pre-publication orders, was released October 11th. It ranks #6 today at Amazon.com

Meanwhile Stephen King has outlasted some competition and returns to 1st place on two lists. On the other hand, it doesn’t rank among LA Times‘s top ten

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