Locus Bestsellers, September
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins/Morrow) | 1 | – |
| 2) | A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam) | 24 | 3 |
| 3) | Dead Ever After, Charlaine Harris (Ace) | 2 | 2 |
| 4) | Limits of Power, Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 5) | The Fall of Arthur, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Magician’s End, Raymond E. Feist (Harper Voyager) | 2 | 5 |
| 7) | Beginnings, David Weber, ed. (Baen) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Quarry, Iain Banks (Redhook) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes (Little, Brown/Mulholland Books) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Gameboard of the Gods, Richelle Mead (Dutton) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 36 | 1 |
| 2) | A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 33 | 4 |
| 3) | Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 35 | 2 |
| 4) | A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 32 | 8 |
| 5) | A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 33 | 5 |
| 6) | 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Sky Dragons, Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Hunted, Kevin Hearne (Ballantine Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Lives of Tao, Wesley Chu (Angry Robot) | 1 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Abaddon’s Gate, James S. A. Corey (Orbit) | 1 | – |
| 2) | World War Z, Max Brooks (Three Rivers Press) | 37 | 2 |
| 3) | Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Del Rey) | 26 | 1 |
| 4) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 14 | – |
| 5) | Cold Steel, Kate Elliott (Orbit) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: Book of Sith, Daniel Wallace (Chronicle) | 3 | 2 |
| 2) | Star Trek: The Shocks of Adversity, William Leisner (Pocket Books) | 2 | 2 |
| 3) | Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures, Christopher L. Bennett (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Doctor Who: Harvest of Time, Alastair Reynolds (Broadway) | 1 | – |
| 5) | The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne) | 5 | – |
| GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: The Last Threshold: Neverwinter Saga, Book IV, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 4 | 4 |
| 2) | Forgotten Realms: Charon’s Claw: Neverwinter Saga, Book III, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 9 | 2 |
| 3) | Forgotten Realms: Neverwinter: Neverwinter Saga, Book II, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 11 | – |
| 4) | Warhammer 40,000: Baneblade, Guy Haley (Black Library) | 2 | 1 |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman debuted in first place by a huge margin on the hardcover list, while A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin took second. The new runner-up was Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston (Tor) out of 46 titles nominated, up from the 44 we saw last month.
George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones stayed seated in first place on the paperback list, with his A Clash of Kings moving into second. The runner-up was Home from the Sea by Mercedes Lackey (DAW) with 53 titles nominated, up from last month’s 47.
There was another big margin for a debut book, this time on the trade paperback list, with Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey firmly in first place this month. There was no runner-up, with 36 titles nominated, down from the 42 we saw last month.
Star Wars: Book of Sith by Daniel Wallace took top honors on the media-related titles this month, and the new runner-up was Star Trek: Into Darkness by Alan Dean Foster (Gallery). There were 22 titles nominated, up from last month’s 16.
Forgotten Realms: The Last Threshold by R.A. Salvatore moved up to number one in the gaming-related titles, with no new runner-up. There were 13 titles nominated, up a tick from the 12 we saw last month.
Compiled with data from
Bakka-Phoenix Books (Canada),
Barnes & Noble (USA),
Borderlands (CA),
McNally Robinson (2 in Canada),
Mysterious Galaxy (CA),
Saint Mark’s (NY),
Toadstool (2 in NH),
Uncle Hugo’s (MN),
White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: June 2013.
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