Locus Bestsellers, October 2017
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland (Morrow) | 2 | 2 |
| 2) | The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Beren and Lúthien, J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | 2 | 1 |
| 5) | New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US) | 5 | 8 |
| 6) | Assassin’s Price, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 7) | A Conjuring of Light, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 3 | – |
| 8) | Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor) | 4 | 4 |
| 9) | Assassin’s Fate, Robin Hobb (Del Rey) | 3 | 3 |
| 10) | The Fall of Shannara: The Black Elfstone, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) | 2 | 6 |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 30 | 1 |
| 2) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 46 | 3 |
| 3) | The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger, Stephen King (Pocket) | 6 | 2 |
| 4) | Heroine Complex, Sarah Kuhn (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 5) | A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 79 | – |
| 6) | An Oath of Dogs, Wendy N Wagner (Angry Robot US) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor) | 2 | 4 |
| 8) | Injection Burn, Jason M. Hough (Del Rey) | 2 | 6 |
| 9) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 14 | 10 |
| *) | White Hot, Ilona Andrews (Avon) | 2 | 8 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster) | 41 | 2 |
| 2) | The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Broadway) | 18 | – |
| 4) | A Darker Shade of Magic, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 10 | 7 |
| 5) | All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor) | 2 | – |
| 6) | The Sumage Solution, G.L. Carriger (Gail Carriger) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US) | 33 | – |
| 8) | American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 4 | 6 |
| *) | Library of Souls, Ransom Riggs (Quirk) | 2 | 9 |
| 10) | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk) | 29 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: Battlefront II: Inferno Squad, Christie Golden (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 4 | 2 |
| 3) | Forgotten Realms: Homecoming: Maestro, R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 2 | – |
| *) | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Enigma Tales, Una McCormack (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Star Wars: Bloodline, Claudia Gray (Del Rey) | 5 | – |
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland rose from second place on the hardcover list last month to first place this month, followed by Tad Williams’s The Witchwood Crown. Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (Knopf) was the first runner-up. There were 55 nominated titles, up from 53 last month.
On the paperback list, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition firmly held onto first place with a large lead over second place finisher The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Buoyed by the television show, Charlaine Harris’s Midnight Crossroad (Ace), book one in the Midnight, Texas trilogy, was the new runner-up. There were 46 nominated titles, down from 58 last month.
Classic novel and last month’s second-place finisher, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, took first place on the trade paperback list, with The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois in a close second. The new runner-up was Lost Boy by Christina Henry (Berkley). We had 44 nominated titles, down from 68 last month.
New release Star Wars: Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden barely squeaked past second-place finisher Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: Thrawn to claim first place on our media-related & gaming-related list. There were no new runners-up; 23 titles were nominated, up from 15 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: July 2017
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From the October 2017 issue of Locus Magazine
