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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Weekly Bestsellers, 15 November 2021
Various editions of Frank Herbert’s Dune and its sequels occupy 10 spots on today’s chart.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 8 November 2021
Various editions of Frank Herbert’s Dune and its sequels occupy 14 spots on today’s chart, including Dune: Deluxe Edition (Ace), ranking #9 on the Los Angeles Times hardcover list.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 1 November 2021
The second “MinaLima” edition of a J.K. Rowling Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: MinaLima Edition (Scholastic), with illustrations and eight “interactive paper craft elements,” ranks #1 on Amazon Canada’s list today.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 October 2021
A new children’s novel by J.K. Rowling, The Christmas Pig (Scholastic), debuts on three print lists this week, and ranks on all three of the Amazon lists.
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The other major debut this week is Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic (Simon & Schuster), fourth in her Practical Magic sequence, ranking on all four print lists.
Locus Bestsellers, October 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for September 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 Trek, the Next Generation: Shadows Have Offended by Cassandra Rose Clarke (Gallery).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 October 2021
Anthony Doerr’s literary novel Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner), which debuted on print lists last week, remains in the top 10 on all four here, ranking #1 at LA Times and #3 at NY Times.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 October 2021
Naomi Novik’s The Last Graduate (Del Rey) debuts strongly, ranking at #5 or #7 on the four print lists here.
Also debuting on print lists is Anthony Doerr’s literary novel Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner), debuting at #1 or #2 on the four print lists.
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Weekly Bestsellers, 4 October 2021
Two titles debut this week: Richard Powers’ novel Bewilderment (Norton), ranking as high as #2, on the LA Times list; and TJ Klune’s Under the Whispering Door (Tor), ranking as high as #4, on the NY Times list.
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Locus Bestsellers, September 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: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule (Del Rey).
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Weekly Bestsellers, 27 September 2021
Five new books published in mid-August appear on print bestseller lists this week, beginning with Joe Abercrombie’s The Wisdom of Crowds (Orbit), ranking #10 on the NYT fiction hardcover list.
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Other debut titles are Kristen Britain’s Winterlight (DAW), Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire (St. Martin’s), Seanan McGuire’s When Sorrows Come (DAW), and Faith Hunter’s True Dead (Ace).
Weekly Bestsellers, 20 September 2021
The paperback edition of Frank Herbert’s Dune (Ace) rises on a couple print lists in anticipation of the release of the new film adaptation.
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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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