Locus Bestsellers   HARDCOVERS Months on list Last month 1) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) 3 1 2) The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos) 1 - 3) March to the Sea, David Weber & John Ringo (Baen) 2 10 4) Destiny, Elizabeth Haydon (Tor) 1 - 5) American Empire: Blood & Iron, Harry Turtledove (Del Rey) 1 - 6) Priestess of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson (Viking) 4 2 7) Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks (Pocket) 1 - 8) The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 2 9 9) The Free Lunch, Spider Robinson (Tor) 1 - 10) The Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey) 5 7   PAPERBACKS     1) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 10 4 2) The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 6 2 3) Homefall, Chris Bunch (Roc) 1 - 4) The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) 2 8 5) Prophecy, Elizabeth Haydon (Tor) 1 - 6) Pyramids, Terry Pratchett (HarperTorch) 1 - 7) Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (HarperTorch) 1 - 8) Spec Ops Squad: Holding the Line, Rick Shelley (Ace) 1 - 9) Zeitgeist, Bruce Sterling (Bantam Spectra) 1 - 10) The Glass Harmonica, Louise Marley (Ace) 1 - TRADE PAPERBACKS     1) The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Del Rey) 59 1 2) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 9 3 3) The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 11 2 4) Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman (HarperPerennial) 3 5 5) Wild Cards, George R.R. Martin, ed. (ibooks) 1 -   MEDIA-RELATED     1) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth, Greg Keyes (Del Rey) 1 - 2) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest, Greg Keyes (Del Rey) 1 - 3) Star Trek: Gateways, Book One: One Small Step, Susan Wright (Pocket) 1 - 4) Angel: Bruja, Mel Odom (Pocket) 1 - 5) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: The Lost Slayer, Part One: Prophecies, Christopher Golden (Pocket) 1 - *) Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Balance Point, Kathy Tyers (Del Rey) 1 -   GAMING-RELATED     1) Forgotten Realms: Servant of the Shard, R.A. Salvatore, (Wizards of the Coast) 5 1 2) Forgotten Realms: Elminster in Hell, Ed Greenwood (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 3) Shadowrun: The Burning Time, Stephen Kenson (Roc) 1 - 4) Magic: The Gathering: The Dragons of Magic, J. Robert King, ed. (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - 5) DragonLance: Brother of the Dragon, Paul B. Thompson & Tonya C. Cook (Wizards of the Coast) 1 - American Gods held onto the number one hardcover position for the third month in a row; The Curse of Chalion was only a few points behind. Jan Siegel's The Dragon Charmer (Del Rey) was the new runner-up. We had 69 nominees, way down from 82 last month. The Hobbit topped the paperback category, comfortably ahead of the other nominees. New runner-up: Brother John by Rutledge Etheridge (Ace). Nominees: 99, down from 102. The Mists of Avalon headed trade paperbacks for the sixth month straight, still leading the Tolkien titles by a wide margin. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin's) was the new runner-up. Nominees: 55, one more than last month. Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth clobbered the media-related competition by more than 100 points. Nominees: 36, well up from 27. Forgotten Realms: Servant of the Shard was the gaming-related favorite for the second month straight. Nominees: 28, the same as last month. Compiled with data from: Adventures in Crime & Space (TX), Basilisk Dreams (Canada), Bookshop Santa Cruz (USA), Borders Bookstores (USA), DreamHaven (MN), Heroes & Dragons (CO), Lone Star (TX), Midtown Comics (NY), Musicland Group (MN), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Pages for All Ages (IL), John W. Rollins, Bookseller (MI), Saint Mark's (NY), Science Fiction & Mystery Bookshop (GA), The Stars Our Destination (IL), Toadstool (2 in NH), Totem Bookshop (WA), Waldenbooks/BGI (USA), White Dwarf (Canada). Data period: August 2001.

November 2001