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Weekly Bestsellers, 20 July 2026

✇Locus Online
By: LocEditor
20 July 2026 at 21:14
Yarros

The most prominent debut this week is Brigette Knightley’s The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy (Ace), second in a duology following last year’s The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, ranking in the top 15 on three lists.

The book by Rebecca Yarros previously listed as Untitled Empyrean (Not Book Four) now has a title: Threshing Day (Entangled: Red Tower Books). A collection of stories, it’s due Sept. 29th, and it ranks #1 on all three Amazon lists today.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.26		 LAT
07.19		 USAT
07.12		 PW
07.20		 Amz
(07.20)		 UK:
Amz UK
(07.20)		 Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aster, Starside 04.13.26 / 15 xxx.. xxx 14 -1 xxx..
Brown, Red Rising (Deluxe Slipcase Edition) 10.27.25 / 38 xxx.. 49 -10 xxx..
Buehlman, Between Two Fires 03.16.26 / 14 xxx.. 24 -2 xxx.. xx
Burke, Yesteryear 04.20.26 / 14 1 = 1 = 4 -1 1 = 6 -3 4 = 5 -3
Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping 06.10.24 / 87 xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx.. 83 -18
Deverell, He Who Fights With Monsters, Book 1: Outworlder 07.20.26 / 1 12 ++ 34 ++ 7 ++
Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles 04.27.26 / 13 x xxx.. 128 + 10 +1 83 -2 x
Dinniman, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario 01.12.26 / 28 7 = xx 24 -9 16 +1 14 -8
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl 05.26.25 / 49 10 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 21 -2 x
Dinniman, The Butcher’s Masquerade 04.21.25 / 24 13 + 40 +12 xxx.. 54 -1
Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook 02.02.26 / 24 9 -1 33 -14 19 +1 20 -1
Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 05.26.25 / 22 xxx 61 = xxx.. 58 +2
Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods 03.24.25 / 26 14 -2 36 -4 xxx.. 32 +3 21 -14
Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin 10.06.25 / 19 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 13 +1 67 +8
Griffin, The Sun and the Starmaker 03.02.26 / 16 8 + xxx.. xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Train 05.18.26 / 10 xx xx 74 -17 15 +1 xxx.. xx xxx..
Knightley, The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy 07.20.26 / 1 4 ++ 15 ++ 3 ++
Leede, Headlights 06.22.26 / 3 104 +
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses 6 03.09.26 / 10 xxx.. 41 + xxx.. 44 +
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses 7 03.09.26 / 9 xxx.. 96 + xxx..
Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons 05.25.26 / 9 xxx.. xx 18 -3 xxx.. xxx..
Pham, The Secret World of Briar Rose 06.15.26 / 6 5 +2 xxx.. xxx..
Qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division 11.24.25 / 4 xxx.. 77 ++
Roberts, Powerless 11.20.23 / 102 xxx.. xxx.. 16 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Ross, Divine Rivals 04.17.23 / 101 10 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Tingle, Fabulous Bodies 07.20.26 / 1 31 ++
Tremblay, Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep 07.13.26 / 2 67 -36
Yarros, Onyx Storm 04.01.24 / 117 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 12 = xxx..
Yarros, Threshing Day 04.20.26 / 12 1 +9 1 +59 1 +32
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.26		 LAT
07.19		 USAT
07.12		 PW
07.20		 Amz
(07.20)		 UK:
Amz UK
(07.20)		 Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 497 xxx.. 90 +7 xxx.. 66 = xxx.. xxx..
Brown, Red Rising [tpb] 05.02.16 / 38 13 +1 xxx.. xxx.. x 26 -11
Buehlman, Between Two Fires [tpb] 09.09.24 / 21 98 -54
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl [tpb] 01.12.26 / 28 3 +1 2 -1 7 -2 2 +1 30 = 16 -2
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel) [tpb] 06.01.26 / 8 59 -5 24 -5
Durst, The Faraway Inn [tpb] 04.13.26 / 13 xxx.. 25 + xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb] 05.22.23 / 87 xxx.. 7 + x xxx.. xx xxx.. xxx
Kraus, Angel Down [tpb] 05.18.26 / 10 6 -1 126 -57 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Lowry, The Giver 09.02.13 / 195 xxx.. 81 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight [tpb] 04.10.23 / 128 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 99 + xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 275 xxx.. xxx.. 80 -24 xxx.. xxx.. 65 +2 xxx
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set 06.19.23 / 150 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 96 -25
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 195 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 70 +21 xxx..
Martin, George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Set 03.31.14 / 157 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 95 +
Miller, Circe [tpb] 09.06.21 / 97 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 38 ++ 100 ++
Orwell, Animal Farm 07.20.03 / 137 137 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 459 xxx.. 59 +13
Thorne, Moss’d in Space [tpb] 07.13.26 / 2 47 -18 16 -4
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 87 2 = 4 -1 5 +3 xxx.. 7 -3 34 -10 7 -4
Yarros, Fourth Wing [tpb] 09.16.24 / 95 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 6 +9 xxx..
Yarros, Iron Flame [tpb] 06.02.25 / 56 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 10 +1 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
07.26		 LAT
07.19		 USAT
07.12		 PW
07.20		 Amz
(07.20)		 UK:
Amz UK
(07.20)		 Canada:
Amz.ca
(07.20)
This cell color indicates rankings on children’s bestsellers lists This cell color indicates rankings of books based on pre-publication sales [Italics and brackets, and/or this cell color, indicate stale data — rankings from one or more weeks before — and do not contribute to the cumulative weeks on any list totals]

The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week, where:

= same as last week

+/- change since last week

+ back on list

++ new on list

x no longer on list (number of x’s: weeks off list)

All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.

Locus Bestsellers, June 2026

✇Locus Online
By: locusmag
20 July 2026 at 17:00
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles: The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US), Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine), and Dragonlance Legends by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Random House Worlds).

HARDCOVERS Months
on list		 Last
month
1) The Faith of Beasts, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) 1 –
2) Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman (Nightfire) 2 7
3) Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 4 3
4) Starside, Alex Aster (Avon) 1 –
5) The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 4 9
*) This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, Ilona Andrews (Tor) 1 –
7) Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) 3 1
8) The Butcher’s Masquerade, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 3 2
9) This Inevitable Ruin, Matt Dinniman (Ace 2 –
10) The Gate of the Feral Gods, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 6 4
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1) Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) 18 1
2) Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 4 2
3) Red Rising, Pierce Brown (Del Rey) 13 6
4) The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey) 12 5
5) Children of Strife, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) 1 –
6) A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) 45 3
7) Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) 15 8
8) Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore, Emily Krempholtz (Ace) 1 –
9) A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) 35 –
10) Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) 18 6
MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED
1) Dragonlance Legends, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Random House Worlds) 2 –
*) Magic: The Gathering: Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos, Seanan McGuire (Random House Worlds) 1 –
3) Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus, Dan Abnett (Black Library) 6 2

James S.A. Corey new book The Faith of BeastsThe Faith of Beasts, the second book in James S.A. Corey’s The Captive’s War series, took first place with a respectable lead over our second-place finisher, Christopher Buehlman’s medieval horror adventure Between Two Fires. Our runner-up was The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan (Tor), a fantasy centered on the hunt for the Beast of Gévaudan. There were 54 nominated titles, down from 55 last month.

Echoing last month’s voting, Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary held onto the top spot on our trade paperback list, followed by Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. There were no new runners-up. Sixty-three titles were nominated, up from last month’s 55.

On our media and gaming-related list, three books made our list. Two tied for first place, Dragonlance Legends by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman and Magic: The Gathering: Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos by Seanan McGuire. Dan Abnett’s Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus came in third. There were no new runners-up. We had 16 titles nominated, down from 22 last month.

Compiled with data from: Bakka-Phoenix (Canada), Book Moon (MA), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (two in Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Toadstool (two in NH), White Dwarf (Canada).

Data period: April 2026



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