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Received — 26 May 2026 ⏭ Literature

Weekly Bestsellers, 25 May 2026

✇Locus Online
By: LocEditor
26 May 2026 at 17:00
Dinniman Parade

Matt Dinniman’s A Parade of Horribles (Ace), eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, debuts strongly, ranking in the top five of all four print lists compiled here, and at #1 on two of them. Seven other Dinniman titles rank on one or more lists this week, three of them on the NY Times fiction hardcover list.

Other debuts this week are books by Shannon Chakraborty, Dani Francis, Sarah Gailey, Sarah A. Parker, Veronica Roth, and Sarah Rees Brennan.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aster, Starside 04.13.26 / 7 12 -3 76 -21 10 -2 xx
Brown, Red Rising (Deluxe Slipcase Edition) 10.27.25 / 30 xxx.. 66 -15 xxx..
Buehlman, Between Two Fires 03.16.26 / 10 xxx.. 20 + xxx..
Burke, Yesteryear 04.20.26 / 6 2 +1 1 = 3 = 2 +1 8 -2 3 -1 2 +4
Chakraborty, The Tapestry of Fate 05.25.26 / 1 34 ++ 13 ++
Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping 06.10.24 / 79 xx 16 +4 xxx.. xxx xxx..
Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles 04.27.26 / 5 1 ++ 5 ++ 4 ++ 1 ++ 32 -15 x
Dinniman, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario 01.12.26 / 20 11 +1 28 +6 24 -1 26 -5
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl 05.26.25 / 41 15 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 95 -38 xxx..
Dinniman, The Butcher’s Masquerade 04.21.25 / 16 xxx.. 63 +27 xxx.. 75 -20
Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook 02.02.26 / 16 13 +1 33 +12 31 -1
Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 05.26.25 / 14 xxx.. 79 + 12 +5 88 -28
Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods 03.24.25 / 18 xxx.. 58 +21 xxx.. 59 -17
Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin 10.06.25 / 11 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 15 +5 x
Francis, Broken Dove 05.25.26 / 1 3 ++ 8 ++ 3 ++
Gailey, Make Me Better 05.25.26 / 1 143 ++
Haig, The Midnight Train (UK) 05.18.26 / 2 10 +21
Klune, We Burned So Bright 05.11.26 / 3 xx xx 80 -44 xx
McIntire, Twisted 05.18.26 / 2 x 103 -90 x
Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons 05.25.26 / 1 18 ++ 48 ++ 11 ++
Perry, Rites of the Starling 04.06.26 / 8 xx xxx.. x 22 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Roberts, Powerless 11.20.23 / 94 xxx.. xxx.. 12 +7 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Roth, Seek the Traitor’s Son 05.25.26 / 1 52 ++
SenLinYu, Alchemised 10.06.25 / 34 xxx.. xxx.. 124 -5 21 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Smith, The Thorn Queen 04.27.26 / 3 9 ++ xxx.. xxx
Sorensen, Dire Bound 03.16.26 / 7 xxx.. 68 -40 17 -6 xx
Sorensen, Fury Bound 05.04.26 / 4 10 -8 24 -22 8 -7 xx x x
Tahir, Heir 10.14.24 / 13 xxx.. 138 + 9 +
Tuli, Storm Breaker 05.18.26 / 2 8 -6 131 -40 x
Wells, Platform Decay 05.18.26 / 2 x x 67 -59 x
Yarros, Onyx Storm 04.01.24 / 109 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 25 -3 xxx..
Yarros, Untitled Empyrean (Not Book Four) 04.20.26 / 6 x xxx.. 54 -18
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Abercrombie, The Devils [tpb] 05.11.26 / 3 65 -25 14 +3
Brennan, All Hail Chaos [tpb] 05.25.26 / 1 21 ++
Buehlman, Between Two Fires [tpb] 09.09.24 / 13 61 +16
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl [tpb] 01.12.26 / 20 4 +2 4 = 9 +8 3 +2 23 -1 9 +2
Durst, The Faraway Inn [tpb] 04.13.26 / 6 xxx.. 14 +1 xxx..
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb] 05.22.23 / 79 xxx.. 10 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 82 + xxx..
Hazelwood, Mate [tpb] 10.20.25 / 16 xxx.. xxx.. 91 +4 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Kraus, Angel Down [tpb] 05.18.26 / 2 5 ++ 39 ++ 18 ++ x x
Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight [tpb] 04.10.23 / 125 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 98 + xxx..
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 230 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 47 +24 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 267 xxx.. xxx.. 98 -15 xxx.. xxx.. 42 +16 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set 06.19.23 / 143 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 99 -23
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 187 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 49 +40 xxx..
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 07.20.03 / 592 xxx.. 50 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection (UK) [tpb] 03.23.15 / 452 xxx.. 74 +
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 79 3 -1 1 +1 1 +3 17 +3 9 -4 16 -3 4 -1
Yarros, Fourth Wing [tpb] 09.16.24 / 87 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 30 -14 xxx..
Yarros, Iron Flame [tpb] 06.02.25 / 48 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 33 -8 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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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.

The post Weekly Bestsellers, 25 May 2026 appeared first on Locus.

Received — 18 May 2026 ⏭ Literature

Weekly Bestsellers, 18 May 2026

✇Locus Online
By: LocEditor
18 May 2026 at 20:43
Wells Platform

The strongest debut this week is Martha Wells’s Platform Decay (Tor), eighth book in the author’s Murderbot Diaries, debuting in the top ten on all four print lists compiled here.

Other debuts: Emily McIntire’s Twisted (Bloom) and Sable Sorensen’s Fury Bound (Requited), on three lists each.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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05.10		 PW
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aster, Starside 04.13.26 / 6 9 -2 55 +38 8 -2 x
Brown, Red Rising (Deluxe Slipcase Edition) 10.27.25 / 29 xxx.. 51 +1 xxx..
Burke, Yesteryear 04.20.26 / 5 3 -2 1 +1 3 +1 3 -2 6 +2 2 -1 6 +1
Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping 06.10.24 / 78 x 20 + xxx xx xxx
Dean, The Girl with a Thousand Faces 05.18.26 / 1 108 ++
Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles 04.27.26 / 4 17 -6 23 -7
Dinniman, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario 01.12.26 / 19 12 -3 34 -5 23 +6 21 =
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl 05.26.25 / 40 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 57 +5 xxx..
Dinniman, The Butcher’s Masquerade 04.21.25 / 15 xxx.. 90 +13 xxx.. 55 -16
Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook 02.02.26 / 15 14 -1 45 -4 30 -3
Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 05.26.25 / 13 xxx.. xxx.. 17 +2 60 -18
Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods 03.24.25 / 17 xxx.. 79 -16 xxx.. 42 -4
Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin 10.06.25 / 10 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 20 +2 70 -23
Haig, The Midnight Train (UK) 05.18.26 / 1 31 ++
Klune, We Burned So Bright 05.11.26 / 2 x x 36 -23 x
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses 6 03.09.26 / 9 xxx.. xxx xxx.. 86 +
McIntire, Twisted 05.18.26 / 1 13 ++ 13 ++ 7 ++
Perry, Rites of the Starling 04.06.26 / 7 x xxx.. 66 -35 19 -5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Roberts, Powerless 11.20.23 / 93 xxx.. xxx.. 19 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Ross, Divine Rivals 04.17.23 / 100 9 -3 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
SenLinYu, Alchemised 10.06.25 / 33 xxx.. xxx.. 119 + 22 +1 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Sorensen, Dire Bound 03.16.26 / 6 xxx.. 28 + 11 + x
Sorensen, Fury Bound 05.04.26 / 3 2 ++ 2 ++ 1 ++ x 68 -50 29 -10
Tuli, Storm Breaker 05.18.26 / 1 2 ++ 91 ++ 25 ++
Weir, Project Hail Mary 06.28.21 / 41 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 98 + xx
Wells, Platform Decay 05.18.26 / 1 8 ++ 9 ++ 8 ++ 5 ++
Yarros, Onyx Storm 04.01.24 / 108 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 22 +4 xxx..
Yarros, Untitled Empyrean (Not Book Four) 04.20.26 / 5 41 -7 xxx 36 -18
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Abercrombie, The Devils [tpb] 05.11.26 / 2 40 +11 17 -4
Buehlman, Between Two Fires [tpb] 09.09.24 / 12 77 -33
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl [tpb] 01.12.26 / 19 6 -2 4 = 17 -5 5 -2 22 +13 11 -2
Durst, The Faraway Inn [tpb] 04.13.26 / 5 xxx.. 15 + xxx..
Hazelwood, Mate [tpb] 10.20.25 / 15 xxx.. xxx.. 95 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Kraus, Angel Down [tpb] 05.18.26 / 1 25 ++ 50 ++
Lee, The Last Contract of Isako [tpb] 05.18.26 / 1 10 ++ 62 ++
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 229 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 71 -10 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 266 xxx.. xxx.. 83 +27 xxx.. xxx.. 58 -22 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set 06.19.23 / 142 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 76 -8
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 186 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 89 -16 xxx..
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 78 2 +1 2 -1 4 -3 20 -9 5 = 13 -1 3 -1
Yarros, Fourth Wing [tpb] 09.16.24 / 86 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 16 +17 xxx..
Yarros, Iron Flame [tpb] 06.02.25 / 47 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 25 +17 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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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.

The post Weekly Bestsellers, 18 May 2026 appeared first on Locus.

Received — 11 May 2026 ⏭ Literature

Weekly Bestsellers, 11 May 2026

✇Locus Online
By: LocEditor
11 May 2026 at 20:14
Klune Burned

The strongest debut this week is TJ Klune’s We Burned So Bright (Tor), a short SF novel about a rogue black hole headed for Earth, ranking on all four print lists compiled here.

Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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05.03		 PW
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(05.11)		 Canada:
Amz.ca
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Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed 10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers
Aster, Starside 04.13.26 / 5 7 -1 93 +42 6 = 93 -15
Brown, Red Rising (Deluxe Slipcase Edition) 10.27.25 / 28 xxx.. 52 +4 xxx..
Buehlman, Between Two Fires 03.16.26 / 9 xxx.. 21 -4 xxx..
Burke, Yesteryear 04.20.26 / 4 1 = 2 = 4 -1 1 = 8 = 1 = 7 +2
Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping 06.10.24 / 77 105 +19 x xx x xx
Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles 04.27.26 / 3 11 +10 16 +19
Dinniman, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario 01.12.26 / 18 9 +5 29 +13 29 -1 21 +11
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl 05.26.25 / 39 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 62 + xxx
Dinniman, The Butcher’s Masquerade 04.21.25 / 14 xxx.. 103 +5 xxx 39 +13
Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook 02.02.26 / 14 13 + 41 +21 27 -2
Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 05.26.25 / 12 xxx.. xxx.. 19 = 42 +12
Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods 03.24.25 / 16 xxx.. 63 +40 xxx.. 38 +5
Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin 10.06.25 / 9 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 22 +3 47 +18
Griffin, The Sun and the Starmaker 03.02.26 / 11 7 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Hunter, Blood Bound 05.11.26 / 1 5 ++ 16 ++
Klune, We Burned So Bright 05.11.26 / 1 6 ++ 10 ++ 13 ++ 9 ++
Nicole, The Throne of Broken Gods 05.11.26 / 1 3 ++ 9 ++ 3 ++
Perry, Rites of the Starling 04.06.26 / 6 15 -7 xxx 31 -11 14 -4 xxx.. xxx.. xx
Perry, Shield of Sparrows 05.05.25 / 19 xxx.. 135 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx
Ross, Divine Rivals 04.17.23 / 99 6 = xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Saft, Wings of Starlight 02.17.25 / 62 8 +1 xxx.. xxx..
Saunders, Vigil 02.09.26 / 12 xxx.. 7 + xxx.. xxx..
SenLinYu, Alchemised 10.06.25 / 32 xxx.. xxx.. xx 23 -2 xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Sorensen, Dire Bound 03.16.26 / 5 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 34 ++
Sorensen, Fury Bound 05.04.26 / 2 84 +15 18 -11 19 +18
Spann, A Stage Set for Villains 02.16.26 / 11 10 = xxx..
Yarros, Onyx Storm 04.01.24 / 107 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 26 -1 xxx..
Yarros, Untitled Empyrean (Not Book Four) 04.20.26 / 4 34 -22 xx 18 -8
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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05.03		 PW
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Paperbacks [tpb=trade]
Abercrombie, The Devils [tpb] 05.11.26 / 1 51 ++ 13 ++
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 07.20.03 / 489 xxx.. 91 +6 xxx.. xxx xxx.. xxx..
Buehlman, Between Two Fires [tpb] 09.09.24 / 11 44 -7
Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl [tpb] 01.12.26 / 18 4 = 4 -1 12 -3 3 +1 35 +2 9 +13
Haig, The Midnight Library [tpb] 05.22.23 / 78 xxx.. 9 + xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx..
Hawk/Van Alst, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology [tpb] 12.11.23 / 54 xxx.. 143 +
Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury [tpb] 05.14.18 / 228 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 61 -8 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses [tpb] 05.16.16 / 265 xxx.. xxx.. 110 +2 xxx.. xxx.. 36 -8 xxx..
Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set 06.19.23 / 141 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 68 +11
Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin [tpb] 05.14.18 / 185 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 73 -5 xxx..
Rowling, Harry Potter Box Set [tpb] 10.20.02 / 57 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 71 +10
Weir, Project Hail Mary [tpb] 10.03.22 / 77 3 -1 1 = 1 +1 11 -2 5 -2 12 -2 2 -1
Yarros, Fourth Wing [tpb] 09.16.24 / 85 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 33 -4 xxx
Yarros, Iron Flame [tpb] 06.02.25 / 46 xxx.. xxx.. xxx.. 42 -6 xxx..
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT
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05.10		 USAT
05.03		 PW
05.11		 Amz
(05.11)		 UK:
Amz UK
(05.11)		 Canada:
Amz.ca
(05.11)
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.

The post Weekly Bestsellers, 11 May 2026 appeared first on Locus.

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