Locus Bestsellers, September 2018
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 2) | The Hills Have Spies, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Season of Storms, Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Skaar Invasion, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Starless, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Outcasts of Order, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 7) | King of Ashes, Raymond E. Feist (Harper Voyager US) | 2 | 3 |
| 8) | The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 2 | 7 |
| 9) | Burn Bright, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 3 | – |
| *) | Grantville Gazette VIII, Eric Flint & Walt Boyes, eds. (Baen) |
1 | – |
| *) | Head On, John Scalzi (Tor) | 3 | 1 |
| *) | The Privilege of Peace, Tanya Huff (DAW) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Peace Divided, Tanya Huff (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Assassin’s Price, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 57 | 1 |
| 4) | Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 51 | 10 |
| 5) | A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 86 | – |
| *) | Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Broadway) | 8 | 2 |
| 7) | The Sea Peoples, S.M. Stirling (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Devil’s Due, Taylor Anderson (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 9) | The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor) | 5 | 3 |
| 10) | Dark Matter, Blake Crouch (Broadway) | 1 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster) | 48 | 3 |
| *) | The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 23 | 1 |
| 4) | The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 7 | 7 |
| 5) | 84K, Claire North (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 16 | – |
| *) | Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US) | 3 | – |
| 8) | Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Broadway) | 28 | – |
| *) | Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US) | 1 | – |
| 10) | All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor) | 6 | – |
| *) | The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 19 | 2 |
| *) | The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 8 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: Phasma, Delilah S. Dawson (Del Rey) | 4 | 1 |
| 2) | World of Warcraft: Before the Storm, Christie Golden (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 9 | 2 |
| 4) | Alien: The Cold Forge, Alex White (Titan US) | 1 | – |
| *) | Star Trek Prometheus: The Root of All Rage, Bernd Perplies & Christian Humberg (Titan US) | 1 | – |
| *) | Star Wars: Canto Bight, Anonymous, ed. (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
In its first month of release, Brief Cases by Jim Butcher (a collection of stories in the Dresden Files series) jumped to the top of the hardcover list with a commanding lead over second place finisher Mercedes Lackey’s The Hills Have Spies, the latest book in her long-running Valdemar series. There were no new runners-up. We had 53 nominated titles, up from 43 last month.
At the top of the paperback list was Tanya Huff’s A Peace Divided (book two of the Peacekeeper series), followed closely by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.’s Assassin’s Price, book 11 in the Imager Portfolio. The new runner-up was the latest book in the Pip & Flinx series, Strange Music by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey). There were 62 titles nominated, up from last month’s 47.
On the trade paperback list, we had a tie between an old favorite, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and a new offering, Peter Watt’s The Freeze-Frame Revolution. How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger (Gail Carriger, LLC) was the new runner-up. We had 66 titles nominated, down from 69 last month.
In media- and gaming-related books, Star Wars: Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson held onto the top spot for another month, edging out Christie Golden’s World of Warcraft: Before the Storm. There were no new runners-up. We had 22 titles nominated, up from last month’s 21.
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), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: June 2018
Note: book titles and covers on this page link to IndieBound, a network of independent booksellers, such as those that contribute to this list.
From the September 2018 issue of Locus.
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