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.
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Three debuts, Danielle J. Jensen’s The Inadequate Heir (Del Rey), K.M. Moronova’s Once Upon a Demon’s Heart (Bloom), and Jaymin Eve’s Night Witch (Mira), each debuts on both the USA Today and Publishers Weekly lists.
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Matt Dinniman has six titles on this week’s New York Times fiction hardcover bestseller list — a record, for books tracked on this page. The runner-up is Rebecca Yarros, with three titles on the list over a dozen times during 2025.
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Rachel Schneider’s Light Wielder (Saturday Books), second in the author’s Fire & Metal series, debuts in the top 10 on three lists.
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Debuts this week: Cindy Pham’s The Secret World of Briar Rose (Kokila), on three lists, including the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list at #1; Caty Rogan’s Kissed by the Gods (Requited), on three lists; Katherine Arden’s The Unicorn Hunters (Del Rey), on two lists; and on one list each, Isabel J. Kim’s Sublimation (Tor) and Lynette Noni’s Shadow Reaper (Knopf).
Debuting on print lists this week is Matt Haig’s The Midnight Train (Viking), from the world of 2020’s The Midnight Library, ranking #4 on three of the lists, #14 on the fourth.
Also notable: a Deluxe Edition of Andy Weir’s The Martian (Ballantine) debuts on two lists.
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Debuting last week and this week, Sarah A. Parker’s The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Avon) ranks #1 on three lists this week.
Also notable: the trade paperback reprint of Rachel Gillig’s The Knight and the Moth (Orbit) debuts on four lists. And a graphic novel version of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl (Vault Comics) debuts on two lists.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Elizabeth Helen’s Frozen by Stardust (Bloom), fifth in the Beasts of the Briar series, debuts in the top 15 on three lists, in trade paperback.
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A rare science fiction novel debuts prominently on lists this week: James S.A. Corey’s The Faith of Beasts (Orbit), second in the authors’ series The Captive’s War, ranking as high as #7 at both New York Times and Publishers Weekly.
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The most prominent genre debut this week is Devney Perry’s Rites of the Starling (Entangled: Red Tower Books), ranking in the top 10 on the four print lists compiled here (Publishers Weekly seems to have confused the title, but not the description, with previous book Shield of Sparrows).
Also noted is literary time-travel novel Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf), also ranking highly on all the lists.
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The prominent debut this week is Alex Aster’s Starside (Avon), ranking #1 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists, #21 at USA Today.
Other debuts this week are hardcovers by Ilona Andrews, Scott Reintgen, and Melissa K. Roehrich, and a trade paperback by Sarah Beth Durst.
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Danielle L. Jensen’s The Traitor Queen (Del Rey), second in a series following The Bridge Kingdom from late last year, debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #6 at Publishers Weekly.
And books by Matt Dinniman are steadily occupying the lists. No fewer than six books in hardcover rank this week, and one in paperback: Dungeon Crawler Carl, still on all four print lists after 13 weeks.
Two fantasy novel debuts this week, beginning with Ava Reid’s Innamorata (Del Rey), ranking on three lists, as high as #5 on two of them. Then, Carissa Broadbent’s Mother of Death and Dawn (Bramble), also ranking on three lists, as high as #6 on one of them.
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Another week, another three fantasy novel debuts. Highest ranking is Briar Boleyn’s The Wings That Bind (Mira), third in the Bloodwing Academy series, ranking #2 at The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Next is Jasmine Mas’s Psycho Beasts (Mira), ranking as high as #14 on three lists. And then Alexis Hall’s Hell’s Heart (Tor), ranking #79 on the USA Today list.
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This week’s debuts include Sable Sorensen’s Dire Bound (Requited), on three lists ranking as high as #2; Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires (Tor Nightfire), on three lists ranking as high as #4; Sasha E. Sloan’s The Ruins Beneath Us (Disney Hyperion), ranking on two YA lists as high as #2; and Amélie Wen Zhao’s The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (Delacorte), ranking on two YA lists as high as …Read More
Three more debuts again this week. Aurora Ascher’s Beauty and the Demon (Kensington), book five in the author’s Hell Bent series, is on three lists, ranking as high as #8. Elizabeth Helen’s Broken by Daylight (Bloom), book four in the author’s Beasts of the Briar series, is on two lists, ranking as high as #12. And Cameron Sullivan’s The Red Winter (Tor), a standalone, is on two lists, ranking …Read More
Three prominent debuts this week, beginning with Kate Quinn’s The Astral Library (Morrow), ranking as high as #2 on the four print lists compiled here. Then Heather Fawcett’s Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter (Del Rey), ranking as high as #4 on the four lists. And then J.R. Ward’s Crown of War and Shadow (Bramble), ranking as high as #4 on three lists.
The most prominent debut this week is Matt Dinniman’s Operation Bounce House (Ace), ranking from #2 to #4 on the four print lists compiled here. Other debuts are the latest books in series by Kerri Maniscalco, Emily McIntire, and Lauren Palphreyman.
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Several debuts this week, beginning with Brandon Sanderson’s Isles of the Emberdark (Tor), ranking #5 on the NY Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Next, Demi Winters’ Dawn of the North (Delacorte) ranks on three lists, as high as #10. Other debuts, on YA or children’s lists, are by Melissa de la Cruz, Petra Lord, Katherine Quinn, and Shannon J. Spann, whose A Stage Set for Villains is #1 on …Read More
George Saunders’s novel Vigil (Random House) debuts strongly on all four print lists, ranking #1 at the New York Times.
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Jim Butcher’s Twelve Months (Ace), 18th volume in the Dresden Files series, debuts strongly on all four print lists, ranking #1 at NY Times and Publishers Weekly.
Also debuting, on three lists, is Samantha Sotto Yambao’s The Elsewhere Express (Del Rey).
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Two reprints from paperback to hardcover debut this week. First is Kaylie Smith’s Enchantra (Forever), first published in 2025 in paperback. Second is Celina Myers’ Hollow (Hanover Square Press), self-published in paperback in 2022. Each ranks on three lists.
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Two debuts this week, both of fantasy novels. Melissa de la Cruz’s Rings of Fate (Entangled: Red Tower Books), first in a new series, is on three lists, ranking as high as #7 on the NY Times fiction hardcover list. And Elise Kova’s Dragon Cursed (Entangled: Mayhem Books) is also on three lists, two of them for YA/children’s books, ranking as high as #1 on the NY Times‘ YA …Read More
Stacia Stark’s vampire novel We Who Will Die (Avon), subtitled on the Amazon page An Epic Romantasy of Forbidden Love, Deadly Secrets, and Vampires in a High-Stakes Arena, Discover a Vividly Reimagined Ancient Rome (Empire of Blood, 1), debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #6 on the NY Times list.
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Two interesting items appear in the lower rankings this week. First is the 50th Anniversary Edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (Harper Perennial, Nov. 2024), a title that has never appeared in any edition on this page in over 20 years. Second is a $45 hardcover edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Harper) in a MinaLima edition, i.e. illustrated by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, best known for …Read More
The trade paperback of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (Ballantine) continues to bubble near the top of several bestseller lists, in anticipation of the release of the film version on March 20, 2026.
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The one notable debut this week is Brandon Sanderson’s collection Tailored Realities (Tor), ranking at #12 or above on three lists.
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Six titles debut this week, most prominently Chloe C. Peñaranda’s The Dark Is Descending (Bramble), third in the Nytefall Trilogy, and Rachel Van Dyken’s Fallen Gods (Entangled: Red Tower Books), each on three lists.
Other debuts are books by Alex Aster, Cassandra Clare, Catherine Doyle, and Keri Lake.
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Three fantasy novels debut this week, with Amber V. Nicole’s The Book of Azrael (Kensington) ranking on three lists at #6 or #7.
Debuting on two lists each: Lauren Palphreyman’s The Wolf King (Bloom) and Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti’s Hollow (King’s Hollow).
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