Weekly Bestsellers, 23 March 2026

Another week, another three fantasy novel debuts. Highest ranking is Briar Boleyn’s The Wings That Bind (Mira), third in the Bloodwing Academy series, ranking #2 at The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Next is Jasmine Mas’s Psycho Beasts (Mira), ranking as high as #14 on three lists. And then Alexis Hall’s Hell’s Heart (Tor), ranking #79 on the USA Today list.

Meanwhile, Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary still …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 16 March 2026

This week’s debuts include Sable Sorensen’s Dire Bound (Requited), on three lists ranking as high as #2; Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires (Tor Nightfire), on three lists ranking as high as #4; Sasha E. Sloan’s The Ruins Beneath Us (Disney Hyperion), ranking on two YA lists as high as #2; and Amélie Wen Zhao’s The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (Delacorte), ranking on two YA lists as high as …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 9 March 2026

Three more debuts again this week. Aurora Ascher’s Beauty and the Demon (Kensington), book five in the author’s Hell Bent series, is on three lists, ranking as high as #8. Elizabeth Helen’s Broken by Daylight (Bloom), book four in the author’s Beasts of the Briar series, is on two lists, ranking as high as #12. And Cameron Sullivan’s The Red Winter (Tor), a standalone, is on two lists, ranking …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 16 February 2026

Several debuts this week, beginning with Brandon Sanderson’s Isles of the Emberdark (Tor), ranking #5 on the NY Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Next, Demi Winters’ Dawn of the North (Delacorte) ranks on three lists, as high as #10. Other debuts, on YA or children’s lists, are by Melissa de la Cruz, Petra Lord, Katherine Quinn, and Shannon J. Spann, whose A Stage Set for Villains is #1 on …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 19 January 2026

Two debuts this week, both of fantasy novels. Melissa de la Cruz’s Rings of Fate (Entangled: Red Tower Books), first in a new series, is on three lists, ranking as high as #7 on the NY Times fiction hardcover list. And Elise Kova’s Dragon Cursed (Entangled: Mayhem Books) is also on three lists, two of them for YA/children’s books, ranking as high as #1 on the NY Times‘ YA …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 5 January 2026

Two interesting items appear in the lower rankings this week. First is the 50th Anniversary Edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (Harper Perennial, Nov. 2024), a title that has never appeared in any edition on this page in over 20 years. Second is a $45 hardcover edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Harper) in a MinaLima edition, i.e. illustrated by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, best known for …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 1 December 2025

The big debut this week is Callie Hart’s Brimstone (Forever, published in a Deluxe Limited Edition ), second in her Fae & Alchemy series following Quicksilver. The new book ranks #1 or #2 on all four print lists compiled here.

Also debuting: Briar Boleyn’s The Bond That Burns (Mira, also in a Deluxe Limited Edition ), ranking on three lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 17 November 2025

Just like last week, two books debut on three lists each. First is Danielle L. Jensen’s The Bridge Kingdom (Deluxe Edition) (Del Rey), a hardcover reprint of a trade paperback from 2024. Second is Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Dawn (St. Martin’s), third in his Empire of the Vampire series. Jensen ranks as high as #14 on the Publishers Weekly list, Kristoff as high as #9 on the same …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 10 November 2025

Two books debut on three lists each this week. First is Jasmine Mas’ Bonds of Hercules (Canary Street Press), second in a romantasy series based on Greek mythology, ranking as high as #1 at Publishers Weekly. And second is Alix E. Harrow’s The Everlasting (Tor), a stand-alone fantasy about a lady-knight and a time-traveling historian, ranking as high as #12 at NY Times.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 October 2025

In new Wing and Claw editions, Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing and Iron Flame (both Entangled: Red Tower Books) return to the tops of lists at NY Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly.

Turnover of new titles debuting on lists has been high this year. This week sees new titles by Alex Aster, Richard Chizmar and W.H. Chizmar, Jordan Stephanie Gray, Lydia Gregovic, Sarah Hawley, T. Kingfisher, Andrzej Sapkowski, and …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 29 September 2025

Several big fantasy novels debut this week, notably Samantha Shannon’s Among the Burning Flowers (Bloomsbury), third in the Roots of Chaos series,
and Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s Assistant to the Villain (Entangled: Red Tower Books). The latter title was published in trade paperback in 2023; this reprint is one of the increasingly common special edition hardcovers with additional artwork and stenciled edges.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 2 September 2025

Several books debut this week, of which the most striking is a Deluxe Limited Edition hardcover of Callie Hart’s Quicksilver (Forever), striking because the book was released in trade paperback in December 2024 and has ranked on bestseller lists for 38 weeks now. The new edition is #1 at New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly.

Briar Boleyn’s On Wings of Blood (Mira) ranks #2 on the NYT …Read More

Weekly Bestsellers, 25 August 2025

Three titles debut on USA Today‘s list: Gareth Brown’s The Society of Unknowable Objects (Morrow) at #37, Chuck Tingle’s Lucky Day (Tor Nightfire) at #15, and Rebecca Thorne’s Alchemy and a Cup of Tea (Bramble) at #18. Callie Hart’s Brimstone (Forever), sequel to Quicksilver and due November 18th, places on all three Amazon lists today.

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