Maas opens at 958,195 tracked hardcovers, trails Yarros record
Circana Bookscan tracked 958,195 opening-week hardcover sales for Maas's new title, behind Yarros's all-time 1,288,300 record.
Sarah J. Maas's A COURT OF SPLINTERED HARMONY sold 958,195 hardcovers in its first week on sale, as tracked by Circana Bookscan, according to Publishers Marketplace.
That puts it ahead of Rebecca Yarros's THRESHING DAY (Wing and Claw Collection), which sold 857,802 hardcovers in its opening week, also as tracked by Bookscan, Publishers Marketplace reported.
Yarros still holds Bookscan's all-time record for the fastest-selling adult title in the history of Bookscan with ONYX STORM, which moved 1,288,300 hardcovers across both deluxe and standard editions in its opening week in early 2025, according to the outlet.
Almost a million hardcovers in one week is the kind of number most authors will never see in a career, let alone a week. Worth sitting with that before you compare yourself to anyone. Context matters here too: even at 958,195 copies, this book still lands behind Yarros's 1,288,300-copy record from early 2025 — so "almost a million" and "biggest ever" are two different claims, and only one of them is true for this book.
From the Coral Wire edition of Sat, Nov 7 2026 · Coral Index 5/100 (Storm warning)