Locus Bestsellers, April 2017
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Babylon’s Ashes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught, Eric Flint (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Death’s Mistress, Terry Goodkind (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Empire Games, Charles Stross (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | The Heart of What Was Lost, Tad Williams (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 6) | The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Ballantine Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 7) | The Blood Mirror, Brent Weeks (Orbit) | 4 | 3 |
| 8) | The Cold Eye, Laura Anne Gilman (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 3 | 2 |
| 10) | Library of Souls, Ransom Riggs (Quirk) | 4 | 6 |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, Neil Gaiman (Harpercollins/Morrow) | 24 | 10 |
| 2) | The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 40 | 1 |
| 4) | The Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 5) | The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 21 | 2 |
| 6) | Tempest, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) | 2 | 4 |
| 7) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 75 | 8 |
| *) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (HarperTorch) | 7 | – |
| 9) | Confluence, S. K. Dunstall (Ace) | 2 | 7 |
| 10) | The Corporation Wars: Dissidence, Ken MacLeod (Orbit) | 2 | 5 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (Mariner) | 3 | 10 |
| 2) | The Martian, Andy Weir (Broadway) | 21 | – |
| 3) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 9 | 3 |
| 4) | Quantum Night, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada) | 1 | – |
| 5) | A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E. Schwab (Tor) | 5 | 9 |
| 6) | The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit) | 6 | 2 |
| 7) | Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 9 | 7 |
| 8) | Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster) | 37 | – |
| 9) | Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books) | 8 | 8 |
| 10) | Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Vintage) | 3 | 1 |
| *) | The Burning Page, Genevieve Cogman (Roc) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Magicians, Lev Grossman (Plume) | 8 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Alexander Freed (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars: Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, James Luceno (Del Rey) | 3 | 1 |
| 3) | Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Chuck Wendig (LocusBooks) | 14 | – |
| 4) | Star Wars Ahsoka, E. K. Johnston (Disney Lucasfilm) | 4 | 2 |
Babylon’s Ashes (book six in The Expanse series) by James S.A. Corey narrowly squeaked ahead of Eric Flint’s 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught (book 21 in The Ring of Fire series), and claimed first place on the hardcover list. The new runner-up was Miniatures by John Scalzi (Subterranean). There were 56 nominated titles, down from 57 last month.
Old favorite, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods took the top spot on the paperback list, followed closely by The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson (book six in the Mistborn series). The new runner-up was book two of the Rowankind series, Jacey Bedford’s Silverwolf. There were 54 nominated titles, down from 59 last month.
Bolstered by a tie-in mini-series, Philip K. Dick’s classic The Man in the High Castle captured the number one spot on the trade paperback list, edging out second place finisher, The Martian by Andy Weir. The new runner-up was Ellen Klages’s Passing Strange (Tor.com Publishing). There were 69 nominated titles, up from 59 last month.
Movie novelization Star Wars: Rogue One by Alexander Freed took the top spot on the media-related and gaming-related list by a wide margin over last month’s winner and Star Wars: Rogue One’s prequel, Star Wars: Catalyst by James Luceno, which moved into second place. There were no runners-up. 30 titles were nominated, up from 25 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: January 2017
Note: book titles and covers on this page link to IndieBound, a network of independent booksellers, such as those that contribute to this list.
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