Weekly Bestsellers, 18 May 2026

18 May 2026 at 20:43

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 05.24	LAT 05.17	USAT 05.10	PW 05.18	Amz (05.18)	UK: Amz UK (05.18)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.18)
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 05.24	LAT 05.17	USAT 05.10	PW 05.18	Amz (05.18)	UK: Amz UK (05.18)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.18)
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 05.24	LAT 05.17	USAT 05.10	PW 05.18	Amz (05.18)	UK: Amz UK (05.18)	Canada: Amz.ca (05.18)
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.

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