Briar Boleyn’s With Hearts of Flame (Mira), fourth in her Bloodwing Academy series, debuts in the top 10 on three lists.

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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.

Two novels by Emily McIntire, the fifth and sixth volumes of her Never After series, Crossed and Hexed (Bloom Books, both published on October 13th), debut on three lists. Also debuting this week: titles by Stephen Graham Jones and Christopher Buehlman, on two lists each.

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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.

Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Other Worlds Than These (Scribner) debuts strongly, ranking #3 on three lists. Also on three lists: V.E. Schwab’s Victorious (Tor), third book in the author’s Villains trilogy; and Veronica Roth’s The Six Faction (HarperCollins).

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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.

Rebecca Yarros’s Threshing Day (Entangled: Red Tower Books), fourth book in the author’s Empyrean series, ranks #1 on all four print lists compiled here. Other books debuting this week include titles by T. Kingfisher, Amber V. Nicole, and Kate Golden.

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

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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.

Sabaa Tahir’s Empire (Putnam’s), second in a duology following 2024’s Heir, debuts on three lists, ranking #1 on the NY Times’ Young Adult Hardcover list. Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Other Worlds Than These, to be published tomorrow, is selling on the Amazon sites today.

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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.

Six titles debut in the top 10 on one or more lists this week. The two most prominent are Leigh Bardugo’s Dead Beat (Flatiron), third in the author’s Ninth House trilogy, ranking #1 at New York Times, and Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party (Knopf), ranking #1 at Los Angeles Times. Other debuts are by Keri Lake, Jasmine Mas, B.K. Borison, and Devney Perry.

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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 Penn Cole’s Burn of the Everflame (Atria), fourth in the Kindred’s Curse Saga, ranking #1 on three of the print lists compiled here. Other debuts: Alice Hoffman’s The Witches of Cambridge (Scribner), on three lists, and associational novel Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang, ranking in the top 10 on four lists.

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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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The major debut this week is Rachel Gillig’s The Knave and the Moon (Orbit), second in the The Stonewater Kingdom series, debuting on all four print lists compiled here, ranking #1 on three of them. Also notable: Chloe Benjamin’s literary SF novel Under Story (Putnam’s) debuts on three lists; James Islington’s Scion (Saga) debuts on three lists; and books by Brom, Katherine Rundell, and Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson debut on two lists each.

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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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T. Kingfisher’s latest, Daggerbound (Bramble), debuts in the top 10 on three print lists.

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

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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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The notable debut this week is Sheila Masterson’s romantasy The Poison Daughter (Slowburn), ranking #1 or #2 at New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly.

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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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Matt Dinniman matches his record of a couple months ago, with six titles on the New York Times hardcover fiction list this week. Now he also has two of those titles on the NYT trade paperback list. The seventh in Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses series now has a title: A Court of Forgotten Melody. It’s due January 12, 2027, from Bloomsbury.

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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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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).

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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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