The most prominent debut this week is Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s Adversary to the Villain (Entangled: Red Tower Books), fourth in a series, ranking #1 or #2 on three trade paperback lists. Also, the latest by Robert Jackson Bennett, A Trade of Blood (Del Rey), debuts on all four fiction hardcover lists compiled here. The sixth volume of Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series now has a title: A Court of Splintered Harmony (Bloomsbury, due Oct. 27th).

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

= same as last week

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+ back on list

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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.

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Sarah Beth Durst’s Sea of Charms (Bramble), third in The Spellshop series, debuts in the top 10 on three lists.

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.

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Two debuts this week: Elise Kova’s Prince of Swords (Del Rey), and Stacey McEwan’s A Forsaken Prophecy (Saga), each ranking among the top 12 on three lists each.

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.

The most prominent debut this week is I.V. Marie’s Ruinous Ends (Delacorte), second in The Souls of Blackwood Academy, on three lists, ranking as high as #1 on the NYT Young Adult Hardcover list. Also debuting this week: the trade paperback of Stephen Graham Jones’ multiple-award-winning novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Finally: while Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear still ranks in the top 10 on all lists here after 15 weeks, it might be noted that, despite some descriptions of the book, it is not actually science fiction or fantasy.

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.

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.

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.

Of half a dozen debuts this week, the highest ranking is Melissa K. Roehrich’s Storm of Secrets and Sorrow (Kensington), Book 2 of The Legacy, ranking on two lists at #12 and #20. Other debuts are by Rachelle Raeta, Paul Tremblay, Emily Varga, Shalini Abeysekara, and Rebecca Thorne.

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.

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