The Specials

Deluxe editions are so plentiful these days that publishers have had to come up with new names for them. The #1 book on our children’s fiction list, Grim and Oro—a single dual-sided, slipcased volume containing two new novels in Alex Aster’s Lightlark series—is known as the Dueling Crowns edition. The new Wing and Claw editions of Rebecca Yarros’s previously published Empyrean books, with sprayed edges that visually unite the three installments, debut at #1, #2, and #15 on our hardcover fiction list.

Fear Factor

Debuting at #12 on our hardcover fiction list, What Stalks the Deep is the third installment of T. Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier series, which PW has praised for its “winning formula of creepy folklore, affable protagonists, familiar gothic tropes, and truly unsettling horror imagery.” One notch below, Widow’s Point by Richard and W.H. Chizmar expands on a novella about a haunted Nova Scotia whose “ghastly history,” according to our review, includes bludgeoning murders and cannibalism. For even more chills and thrills, and an interview with Kingfisher, check out our horror and dark fantasy feature.

First Blood

The Dec. 8, 2003, issue of PW announced Little, Brown’s acquisition of a debut novel touted as “Anne Rice for teens”: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It pubbed 20 years ago this month; eight books, five movies, and countless jokes about sparkly vampires later, the novel that started it all is back on our children’s fiction list. A deluxe edition hardcover with a foil-stamped slipcase lands at #3, and a 20th anniversary paperback, featuring the familiar red apple image, inside cover art, and sprayed edges, is #7.

Membership Privileges

Richard Osman returns with The Impossible Fortune, #5 on our hardcover fiction list and the first new installment in his Thursday Murder Club series since the movie adaptation of book one began streaming in August.