Locus Bestsellers, December
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | The Broken Eye, Brent Weeks (Orbit) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor) | 2 | 4 |
| 3) | The Golden Princess, S. M. Stirling (Roc) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Shifting Shadows, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 5) | The Witch With No Name, Kim Harrison (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Fool’s Assassin, Robin Hobb (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 3 |
| 7) | The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (Viking) | 2 | 2 |
| 8) | Skin Game, Jim Butcher (Roc) | 5 | 8 |
| 9) | Exo, Steven Gould (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Visions, Kelley Armstrong (Penguin/Dutton) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Winter Long, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 3) | A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam) | 12 | 1 |
| 4) | The Republic of Thieves, Scott Lynch (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 3 |
| 5) | A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 45 | 6 |
| 6) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 51 | 2 |
| 7) | Hidden, Benedict Jacka (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 8) | The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 5 | – |
| 9) | The Given Sacrifice, S. M. Stirling (Penguin/Roc) | 1 | – |
| 10) | A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 42 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit) | 9 | 1 |
| 2) | Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/FSG Originals) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 4 | 2 |
| 4) | Maplecroft, Cherie Priest (Roc) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Bantam Spectra) | 2 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: A New Dawn, John Jackson Miller (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett, Daniel Wallace, Ryder Windham & Jason Fry (Chronicle) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Star Trek: Voyager: Acts of Contrition, Kirsten Beyer (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Star Wars: Kenobi, John Jackson Miller (LucasBooks) | 2 | 1 |
| 5) | Doctor Who: Engines of War, George Mann (Broadway) | 5 | 1 |
| GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: Companions Codex I: Night of the Hunter, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 5 | – |
| 2) | Forgotten Realms: The Companions: The Sundering, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 13 | – |
Brent Weeks’s The Broken Eye retained the top spot on the hardcover list for a second month with a commanding lead over second place finisher Lock In by John Scalzi. Hieroglyph, edited by Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer (Morrow), was the new runner-up. There were 42 titles nominated, one less than last month.
For the first time in six months, books in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series were unseated from the top two positions on our paperback list, with The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire taking the first spot, and Lois McMaster Bujold’s Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance in second. The new runner-up was The Incrementalists by Steven Brust & Skyler White (Tor), with 61 nominated titles, down from last month’s 64.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie took the top spot on the trade paperback list for another month, with Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer finishing second. No new runners-up appeared on the trade paperback list. There were 48 nominated titles, up from last month’s 42.
John Jackson Miller, with Dave Filoni, held onto the top spot in media-related books with new release Star Wars: New Dawn. Miller’s Star Wars: Kenobi, last month’s top finisher, moved to fourth place. Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett by Daniel Wallace claimed second. There were no new runners-up, with 17 nominated titles, up from 10 last month.
Forgotten Realms continued to dominate of the gaming-related list with Forgotten Realms: Companions Code 1: Night of the Hunter and Forgotten Realms: The Companions, both by R.A. Salvatore, returning to the top spots as numbers one and two, respectively. There were no new runners-up. There were 11 nominated titles, down from last month’s 17.
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: September 2014.
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