Locus Bestsellers, June 2017
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Silence Fallen, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 2) | New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Etched in Bone, Anne Bishop (Penguin Random House/Roc) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton) | 2 | 2 |
| 6) | A Conjuring of Light, V. E. Schwab (Tor) | 2 | 1 |
| 7) | Firebrand, Kristen Britain (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 9) | The Skill of Our Hands, Steven Brust & Skyler White (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Convergence, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft (Chartwell Books) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Magic for Nothing, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 2) | The Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW) | 3 | 3 |
| 3) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 42 | 2 |
| 4) | American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, Neil Gaiman (Harpercollins/Morrow) | 26 | 7 |
| 5) | The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 23 | 8 |
| 6) | Fire Touched, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 2 | 1 |
| 7) | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 2 | – |
| 8) | Saturn Run, John Sandford & Ctein (Putnam) | 2 | 4 |
| 9) | The Dark Tower I:The Gunslinger, Stephen King (Plume) | 2 | – |
| 10) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 76 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E. Schwab (Tor) | 6 | – |
| 2) | Revenger, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 11 | – |
| 5) | The Girl With All the Gifts, M. R. Carey (Orbit) | 5 | – |
| *) | The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (Mariner) | 5 | 4 |
| 7) | Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Vintage) | 5 | 1 |
| 8) | The Everything Box, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| 10) | A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers (HarperVoyager) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire’s End, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey) | 2 | 2 |
| 2) | Forgotten Realms: Homecoming Book III: Hero, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 2 | – |
| 3) | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Long Mirage, David R. George III (Pocket) | 2 | 5 |
| 4) | Star Trek: Section 31: Control, David Mack (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Chuck Wendig (LocusBooks) | 15 | – |
Patricia Briggs’s Silence Fallen (book ten in the Mercy Thompson series) claimed the top spot on the hardcover list, followed by New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. The new runner-up was Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan (Orbit US), the first book in a new fantasy series, set in the same world as McClellan’s Powder Mage trilogy. There were 51 nominated titles, down from 56 last month.
With a commanding lead, new release Magic for Nothing by Seanan McGuire (book six in the InCryptid series) nabbed first place on the paperback list over second place finisher Ben Aaronovitch’s The Hanging Tree (book six in the Rivers of London series). There were no new runners-up. There were 67 nominated titles, up from 57 last month.
Edging out second-place finisher Revenger by Alastair Reynolds, first place on the trade paperback list went to A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, the first book in her Shades of Magic trilogy. The new runner-up was Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames (Orbit US). We had 71 nominated titles, up from 65 last month.
Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire’s End (the third book in the Star Wars: The Aftermath trilogy) returned to the top spot on the media-related & gaming-related book list, with Forgotten Realms: Hero by R.A. Salvatore (book three in the Legend of Drizzt: Homecoming trilogy) a respectable second. There were no new runners-up; 26 titles were nominated, up from 22 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 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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