Locus Bestsellers, November 2020
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor), and Forgotten Realms: Relentless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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1) | Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing) | 1 | – |
2) | Peace Talks, Jim Butcher (Ace) | 2 | 1 |
3) | The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 6 | 2 |
4) | Sucker Punch, Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) | 1 | – |
5) | Axiom’s End, Lindsay Ellis (St. Martin’s) | 2 | 5 |
6) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 4 | – |
*) | Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) | 2 | 6 |
8) | 1636: The Atlantic Encounter, Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt (Baen) | 1 | – |
9) | The Baron of Magister Valley, Steven Brust (Tor) | 1 | – |
*) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 4 | 1 |
*) | The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor) | 1 | – |
PAPERBACKS | |||
1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 43 | 3 |
2) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 19 | 1 |
3) | Alien Secrets, Ian Douglas (Harper Voyager US) | 1 | – |
4) | Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 10 | 2 |
5) | Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US) | 6 | 9 |
6) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 2 | – |
7) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 11 | 7 |
8) | American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 44 | – |
9) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 31 | – |
10) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 79 | 4 |
TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
1) | A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor) | 4 | – |
2) | Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing) | 1 | – |
3) | The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 44 | 1 |
4) | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 5 | 8 |
5) | Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Vintage) | 2 | 2 |
6) | The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook) | 4 | 3 |
7) | Deal with the Devil, Kit Rocha (Tor) | 1 | – |
8) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 1 | – |
9) | Cibola Burn, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 5 | – |
*) | Nemesis Games, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 3 | – |
*) | The Oppenheimer Alternative, Robert J. Sawyer (Caezik) | 4 | 6 |
MEDIA & GAMING RELATED | |||
1) | Forgotten Realms: Relentless, R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US) | 2 | 2 |
2) | Forgotten Realms: Boundless, R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US) | 4 | – |
3) | Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 8 | 4 |
4) | Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 17 | – |
5) | Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 9 | 1 |
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On the hardcover list, Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir barely edged out last month’s winner, Jim Butcher’s Peace Talks, to take first place. Our new runner-up was the latest book in the long-running Ring of Fire series, 1636: The Atlantic Encounter by Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt (Baen). We had 35 nominated titles, down from last month’s 37.
Frank Herbert’s Dune found its way back onto the paperback list, reclaiming the number-one spot from The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, which moved into second. Sherwood Smith’s A Sword Named Truth (DAW), the first book in the Young Allies series set in the Sartorias-deles universe, was our new runner-up. There were 43 titles nominated, up from 42 last month.
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine took first place on the trade paperback list with a respectable lead over second-place finisher, Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth. Our new runner-up was Drowned Country by Emily Tesh (Tor.com Publishing), which concluded the duology she started with Silver in the Wood. Fifty books were nominated this month, resulting in a tie with last month.
R.A. Salvatore dominated the media- and gaming-related category with the latest two books in his Generations series, Forgotten Realms: Relentless and Forgotten Realms: Boundless, taking first and second place respectively. There were no new runners-up. We had 20 nominated titles, up from last month’s 13.
Compiled with data from Bakka-Phoenix Books (Canada), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (Two in Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Toadstool (NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: August 2020.
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From the November 2020 issue of Locus.
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