Weekly update (sales reports for April 29-May 5)...

Nicholas Sparks' The Lucky One stayed in Nr. 1 for the ninth consecutive week, while E. L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker both moved up one place, to Nr. 2 and Nr. 4. Two new titles debuted in the top-5: Robert A. Caro's The Passage of Power at Nr. 3 and Charlaine Harris' Deadlocked at Nr. 5. New entries were up from 20.2% to 22.3% (87 of 390 entries), well above the median of 13.2%, but short of the high of 24.7% in early October.

The highest-rated single edition was the trade paper of Nr. 2 Fifty Shades of Grey at 100.0 (Nr. 1 on USA, NYT fiction trade paper, and PW trade paper). The title has been on the lists 14 weeks since early February, making the top-25 for the eighth time. This is the third week all three of the Fifty Shades trilogy titles have been in the top-25, each of them up by one rank. .

Turnover in the top-25 stayed at 8 for the second week.

Five new titles appeared in the top-25. Besides the two that debuted in the top-5 were Nora Roberts' The Last Boyfriend at Nr. 8, Ace Atkins' Robert B. Parker's Lullaby at Nr. 21 and Peter L. Bergen's Manhunt at Nr. 22.

Two titles that had been in the top-25 in hardcover returned with mass market reprints: Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beast at Nr. 15 after a 31 week absence and John Sanford's Buried Prey at Nr. 23 after a 45-week absence. The mass market reprint of Michael Connelly's The Fifth Witness appeared on the lists last week, but did not make the top-25. This week it moved up to Nr. 24, after a 49 week absence.

E-books moved up from 92 to 93, staying well above the median of 84 for the last 52 weeks. All of the top-10 had e-book editions (the previous four weeks the number was 9, since Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter did not appear in e-book).

Nine titles either stayed steady or moved four or fewer places from their positions last week (down one from last week). Moving up ten places was Charles Dubigg's The Power of Habit, from Nr. 24 to Nr. 14 in its 9th week in the top-25. Four titles moved down ten or more places: Stephen King's The Wind Through the Keyhole down 10 to Nr. 16 in its second week; Anna Quindlen's Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake down 10 to Nr. 19 in its second week; Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest down 12 to Nr. 20 in its 21st week and Lynsay Sands' Under a Vampire Moon down 11 to Nr. 25 in its second week.

Dropping out of the top-25 from last week were 8 titles, four of which had been in the top-5 or in the top-25 five weeks or more: Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln had returned to Nr. 21 after three weeks below the top-25; Rachel Maddow's Drift at Nr 20 after 5 weeks; Mary Higgins Clark's The Lost Years at Nr. 23 after 4 weeks; and Jonah Lehrer's Imagine at Nr. 22 after 6 weeks.

The number of titles in the top-25 for 13 weeks or more stayed at four, with one switch in titles: Heaven is for Real (70 weeks), A Game of Thrones (39), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (21) and In the Garden of Beasts (21). Killing Lincoln (28) dropped out of the top-25.