Locus Bestsellers, June
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Night Broken, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett (Random House/Doubleday) | 4 | 5 |
| 4) | The Martian, Andy Weir (Crown) | 2 | 1 |
| 5) | Murder of Crows, Anne Bishop (Roc) | 1 | – |
| 6) | The Undead Pool, Kim Harrison (Harper Voyager) | 2 | 4 |
| 7) | Mentats of Dune, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Like a Mighty Army, David Weber (Tor) | 2 | 2 |
| 9) | Red Rising, Pierce Brown (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 3 |
| *) | Working God’s Mischief, Glen Cook (Tor) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Human Division, John Scalzi (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Half-Off Ragnarok, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 3) | A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam) | 6 | 5 |
| *) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 12 | – |
| 5) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 45 | 4 |
| 6) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW) | 2 | 2 |
| 8) | A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 38 | 9 |
| 9) | A Memory of Light, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 3 | 5 |
| 10) | Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 44 | 3 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor) | 8 | – |
| 2) | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit) | 3 | – |
| 3) | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books) | 5 | 2 |
| 4) | Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster) | 30 | – |
| 5) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 18 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Trek: No Time Like the Past, Greg Cox (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 2) | William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back, Ian Doescher (Quirk) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel, Christopher L. Bennett (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor, Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga (Thomas Dunne) | 1 | – |
| 5) | William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, Ian Doescher (Quirk) | 7 | – |
| GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: Companions Codex I: Night of the Hunter, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Forgotten Realms: The Companions: The Sundering, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 7 | 1 |
| 3) | Forgotten Realms: The Godborn, Paul S. Kemp (Wizards of the Coast) | 2 | 2 |
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson debuted at first place on the hardcover list, and Patricia Briggs’s Night Broken took second. There were no new runners-up, with 43 titles nominated, down from 47 last month.
The Human Division by John Scalzi took the number one spot, with Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire appearing as number two on the mass-market list this month. The new runner-up was Mike Shepherd’s To Do or Die (Ace) out of 45 titles nominated, down from last month’s 57.
John Scalzi’s Redshirts took first on the trade paperback list this month. The new runner-up was Questionable Practices by Eileen Gunn (Small Beer Press), with 34 titles nominated, up one from the 33 we saw last month.
Star Trek: No Time Like the Past, by Greg Cox made its debut at number one among the media-related titles, with no runners-up. There were 14 titles nominated, the same as last month.
Forgotten Realms: Companions Codex I: Night of the Hunter by R.A. Salvatore debuted at number one in the gaming-related titles, with no runners-up. There were 16 titles nominated, up from 11 last month.
Compiled with data from
Bakka-Phoenix Books (Canada),
Barnes & Noble (USA),
Borderlands (CA),
McNally Robinson (2 in Canada),
Mysterious Galaxy (CA),
Toadstool (2 in NH),
Uncle Hugo’s (MN),
University Bookstore (WA),
White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: March 2014.
Note: book titles and covers on this page link to IndieBound, a network of independent booksellers, such as those that contribute to this list.
