Locus Bestsellers, September
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 2) | A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam) | 12 | 3 |
| 3) | Kiss the Dead, Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) | 1 | – |
| 4) | 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Existence, David Brin (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Deadlocked, Charlaine Harris (Ace) | 2 | 1 |
| 7) | The Long Earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter (Harper) | 1 | – |
| 8) | 1636: The Kremlin Games, Eric Flint, Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett, eds. (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 9) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 6 | 8 |
| *) | Railsea, China Mieville (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 4 |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 24 | 1 |
| 2) | A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 21 | 2 |
| 3) | A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 21 | 3 |
| *) | A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 20 | 4 |
| 5) | The Janus Affair, Philippa Ballantine & Tee Morris (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Blackout, Mira Grant (Orbit) | 2 | 9 |
| 7) | Unnatural Issue, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Beauty and the Werewolf, Mercedes Lackey (Luna) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor) | 2 | 6 |
| 10) | The Devil’s Nebula, Eric Brown (Abaddon) | 1 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Broadway) | 1 | – |
| 2) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 12 | – |
| 3) | Caliban’s War, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central) | 2 | 4 |
| 5) | The Magicians, Lev Grossman (Plume) | 3 | – |
| *) | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks (Three Rivers Press) | 28 | 4 |
| MEDIA-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn, David R. George III (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived, Paul S. Kemp (LucasBooks) | 3 | – |
| 3) | Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night, David R. George III (Pocket) | 2 | 4 |
| 4) | Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son, Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare, Jason Fry & Paul R. Urquhart (Del Rey) | 2 | – |
| GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Warhammer 40K: The Horus Heresy: The Primarchs, Christian Dunn, ed. (Black Library) | 2 | 2 |
| 2) | Halo: Cryptum, Greg Bear (Tor) | 9 | – |
| *) | Halo: Glasslands, Karen Traviss (Tor) | 8 | 3 |
Redshirts by John Scalzi made its debut at number one on the hardcover list this month, with George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons in second place. The new runner-up was Home from the Sea by Mercedes Lackey (DAW), with only 37 titles nominated, down quite a bit from the 52 we saw last month.
George R.R. Martin continues to rule the paperback list, with A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords taking first and second, respectively. The new runner-up was Year’s Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Harper Voyager US), with 48 titles nominated, down a bit from last month’s 51.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline debuted in first place on the trade paperback list this month by a large margin. There was no new runner-up, out of 32 titles nominated, down from 38 last month.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn by David R. George III was first on the media-related titles this month and there was no new runner-up. There were 12 titles nominated, down from last month’s 15.
Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: The Primarchs edited by Christian Dunn moved up one spot to number one in the gaming-related titles, and there was no new runner-up. There were 26 titles nominated, up quite a bit from the 16 we saw last month.
Compiled with data from
Bakka-Phoenix Books (Canada),
Barnes & Noble (USA),
Borderlands (CA),
McNally Robinson (2 in Canada),
Toadstool (2 in NH),
Uncle Hugo’s (MN),
White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: June 2012.
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