Locus Bestsellers, February
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Trade Secret, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 2) | The Republic of Thieves, Scott Lynch (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 3 |
| 3) | The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins/Morrow) | 6 | 5 |
| 4) | The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | 8 | – |
| 5) | After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse, Charlaine Harris (Ace) | 1 | – |
| *) | Burning Paradise, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Witch Wraith, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey) | 3 | – |
| 8) | The Last Dark, Stephen R. Donaldson (Putnam) | 2 | 4 |
| 9) | Curtsies & Conspiracies, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown) | 1 | – |
| 10) | The Abominable, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur Books) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam) | 2 | 2 |
| 2) | Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 40 | 1 |
| 3) | The Silvered, Tanya Huff (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 4) | A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 36 | 4 |
| 5) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 41 | 10 |
| 6) | Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 5 | 9 |
| 7) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 9 | – |
| 8) | Ever After, Kim Harrison (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| 9) | 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) | 6 | 6 |
| 10) | The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Bantam Spectra) | 4 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit) | 2 | 3 |
| 3) | Etiquette and Espionage, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown) | 2 | 4 |
| *) | Tombstone Blues, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor) | 5 | 4 |
| *) | Thunder Road, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone) | 3 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Trek: The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses, David Mack (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Doctor Who: Official 50th Anniversary Annual, BBC Children’s Books (Penguin UK) | 1 | – |
| *) | William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, Ian Doescher (Quirk) | 4 | 1 |
| 4) | Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation, Drew Karpyshyn (LucasBooks) | 1 | – |
| GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: The Companions: The Sundering, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 4 | 2 |
| 2) | Forgotten Realms: The Last Threshold: Neverwinter Saga, Book IV, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 3 | 1 |
Trade Secret by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller debuted at number one, while Scott Lynch’s The Republic of Thieves moved up to second place on the hardcover list. The new runner-up was Come and Take Them by Tom Kratman (Baen) out of 48 titles nominated, down from 58 last month.
George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons switched places with Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card on the mass-market list this month, with Martin’s book moving up to first place, and Card’s slipping into second. The new runner-up was The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt & Mike Resnick (Ace) out of 44 titles nominated, down quite a bit from last month’s 64.
Martin also ruled the trade paperback list, with A Dance With Dragons coming in first place this month. The was no new runner-up, with 40 titles nominated, up from the 38 we saw last month.
Star Trek: The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses by David Mack took top honors among the media-related titles for the second month in a row, and there was no new runner-up. There were 19 titles nominated, down from last month’s 22.
Forgotten Realms: The Companions by R.A. Salvatore returned to the list at number one in the gaming-related titles, with no runner-ups. There were 11 titles nominated, down a touch from the 12 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),
University Book Store (WA),
White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: November 2013.
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