Dream Up
Sales of Ava Reid’s 2023 YA debut, A Study in Drowning, really took off with the 2024 release of the deluxe edition. For the sequel, A Theory of Dreaming, HarperCollins released the standard and deluxe editions simultaneously, and the latter is #1 on our children’s fiction list.
Sales Snapshot
The week’s strongest debut, On Power by Fox News host Mark R. Levin, lands at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list. It bested ongoing #1 juggernaut The Let Them Theory in the Mountain region, but it’s a bit of a power-down from his previous book, The Democrat Party Hates America, which debuted at #1 with four times as many print copies sold.
In Clubland
The Good Morning America YA Book Club pick for August, Immortal Consequences, starts its freshman week at #5 on our children’s fiction list. Debut author I.V. Marie spoke with PW about her love of the popular dark academia genre: “There’s something enticing about not only writing but reading about the aesthetically pleasing aspects of academia—but there’s also a lot of dark stuff. There are added layers of obsession and power, and what it means to have power and who should have it. And all of those conflicting themes I think are interesting to explore.”
Birds of a Feather
Maggie Stiefvater’s four-book Raven Cycle was a commercial and critical success. Each installment of the YA contemporary fantasy series received a starred PW review; the books have sold a combined 517K print copies and inspired a thriving fan art scene. Now, almost a decade after the cycle completed in 2016, a graphic novel version of book one, The Raven Boys, swoops onto our children’s fiction list at #6. Comic book historian Stephanie Williams, whose writing credits include Nubia & the Amazons and Wakanda, adapted the text, and illustrator Sas Milledge (Mamo) did the artwork.
