Locus Bestsellers, February 2017
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | The Blood Mirror, Brent Weeks (Orbit) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | At the Sign of Triumph, David Weber (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Shadow of Victory, David Weber (Baen) | 2 | 7 |
| 4) | Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Death’s End, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 2 | 3 |
| 6) | Lost Gods, Brom (Harper Voyager) | 2 | 5 |
| 7) | Ghost Talkers, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 8) | The Operative, Gerald Brandt (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Crosstalk, Connie Willis (Ballantine Del Rey) | 2 | 4 |
| 10) | Alien Morning, Rick Wilber (Tor) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, Neil Gaiman (Harpercollins/Morrow) | 22 | 1 |
| 2) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 38 | 2 |
| 3) | Altered Starscape, Ian Douglas (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Courier, Gerald Brandt (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Kris Longknife: Bold, Mike Shepherd (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Warheart, Terry Goodkind (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 7) | The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 19 | – |
| 8) | The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger, Stephen King (Plume) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 4 | – |
| 10) | Storm Front, Jim Butcher (Roc) | 8 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Vintage) | 1 | – |
| 2) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 7 | 2 |
| 3) | Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 7 | – |
| 4) | Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Broadway) | 16 | – |
| 5) | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit) | 30 | – |
| 6) | The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit) | 4 | 1 |
| 7) | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books) | 26 | 8 |
| 8) | Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) | 1 | – |
| *) | Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books) | 6 | – |
| *) | Romancing the Inventor, Gail Carriger (self-published) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: Homecoming Book III: Hero, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars Ahsoka, E. K. Johnston (Disney Lucasfilm) | 2 | 2 |
| 3) | Star Wars: Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, James Luceno (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeonology, Matt Forbeck (Candlewick) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Star Trek: Prey: The Jackal’s Trick, John Jackson Miller (Pocket) | 2 | 3 |
Brent Weeks’s The Blood Mirror (book four in the Lightbringer series) remained number one on the hardcover list with only a modest lead over second place finisher At the Sign of Triumph by David Weber (book nine in the Safehold series). The new runner-up was The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington (Orbit US). There were 56 nominated titles, down from 57 last month.
American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman squeaked by Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind to capture the top spot on the paperback list. There were no new runners-up. There were 63 nominated titles, up from 60 last month.
Benefiting from a strong tie-in movie, Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang captured the top spot on the trade paperback list, followed by The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. The new runner-up was Shadowed Souls, edited by Jim Butcher & Kerrie L. Hughes (Roc). There were 76 nominated titles, up from 69 last month.
Forgotten Realms: Homecoming: Hero by R.A. Salvatore captured the top of the media-related and gaming-related list with E.K. Johnston’s Star Wars: Ahsoka in second. The new runner-up was Star Trek: Prey: The Hall of Heroes by John Jackson Miller. 30 titles were nominated, down from 31 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: November 2016.
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