Locus Bestsellers, September 2019
The Locus Bestsellers for September include top titles Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson (Morrow), Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow), The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US), and Star Wars: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray (Del Rey).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, Neal Stephenson (Morrow) | 1 | – |
| 2) | A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley) | 2 | 1 |
| 3) | Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf) | 2 | 2 |
| 4) | Tiamat’s Wrath, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 4 | 5 |
| 5) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 8 | 7 |
| 6) | The Stiehl Assassin, Terry Brooks (Del Rey) | 2 | 9 |
| 7) | Storm Cursed, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 2 | 3 |
| 8) | Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US) | 1 | – |
| 10) | To Clear Away the Shadows, David Drake (Baen) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 22 | 2 |
| 2) | The Hills Have Spies, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 69 | 6 |
| 4) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 29 | 3 |
| 5) | A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 94 | 1 |
| 6) | American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 40 | 5 |
| 7) | Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 54 | – |
| 8) | Magic Triumphs, Ilona Andrews (Ace) | 2 | 8 |
| 9) | 1637: The Volga Rules, Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett & Gorg Huff (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 10) | NOS4A2, Joe Hill (Morrow) | 1 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 30 | 2 |
| 2) | The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) | 3 | – |
| 3) | Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 2 | 3 |
| 4) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 3 | 6 |
| 5) | Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 22 | 9 |
| 6) | A Liaden Universe Constellation, Volume 4, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Vintage) | 6 | – |
| 8) | The Gameshouse, Claire North (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor) | 1 | – |
| *) | A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 29 | 1 |
| MEDIA & GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: Master & Apprentice, Claudia Gray (Del Rey) | 3 | 1 |
| 2) | Star Wars: Thrawn: Alliances, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 8 | 3 |
| 3) | Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Adam Christopher (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron, Alexander Freed (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Star Trek: The Captain’s Oath, Christopher L. Bennett (Gallery) | 1 | – |
| *) | Timeless, R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US) | 3 | – |
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson crushed all comers on the hardcover list, garnering almost twice as many votes as our second place finisher, Guy Gavriel Kay’s A Brightness Long Ago. The new runner-up was Jo Walton’s stand-alone novel Lent (Tor). We had 47 nominated titles, down from 52 last month.
Riding the wave of Amazon Prime’s recent TV adaptation, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett continued its climb on the paperback list, moving up one position from last month and claiming first place with a substantial lead over Mercedes Lackey’s The Hills Have Spies, book one in the Valdemar: Family Spies series. There were no new runners-up. There were 54 titles nominated, up from last month’s 50.
On the trade paperback list, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin moved back into first place with a respectable lead over Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars in the number two spot. There were no new runners-up. We had 69 titles nominated, up from 47 last month.
In media and gaming related books, Star Wars: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray held onto first place, barely beating Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: Thrawn: Alliances in second. There were no new runners-up. We had 24 nominated titles, 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 (NH), Uncle Hugo’s (MN), University Bookstore (WA), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: June 2019
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From the September 2019 issue of Locus.
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