Locus Bestsellers, December 2021
The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), and Starlight Enclave by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 5 | 1 |
| 2) | The Wisdom of Crowds, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 5) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 3 | 2 |
| 6) | When Sorrows Come, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Slewfoot, Brom (Tor Nightfire) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | 4 |
| 9) | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 12 | 5 |
| 10) | Empire of the Vampire, Jay Kristoff (St. Martin’s) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 56 | 1 |
| 2) | The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (Tor) | 6 | – |
| 3) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 31 | 10 |
| 4) | Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 2 | – |
| 5) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam) | 7 | 3 |
| 7) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 8 | 6 |
| 8) | Neuromancer, William Gibson (Ace) | 13 | 5 |
| 9) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 19 | – |
| 10) | Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 1 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 9 | 1 |
| 2) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 3 | – |
| 3) | A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 3 | – |
| 4) | The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 2 | 2 |
| 5) | Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) | 4 | 8 |
| 6) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 6 | 5 |
| *) | Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central) | 15 | 3 |
| 8) | Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Tor Nightfire) | 1 | – |
| 9) | The God Is Not Willing, Steven Erikson (Bantam Press UK) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Zoraida Córdova (Atria) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Starlight Enclave, R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 19 | – |
On the hardcover list, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir remained at the top with a decisive victory over Joe Abercrombie’s The Wisdom of Crowds, book three in The Age of Madness series, in second place. There were no new runners-up. We had 45 nominated titles, down from 50 last month.
Thanks to the movie, Frank Herbert had a good month. Four of the six Dune books he authored appeared on the paperback list, with Dune taking first place. Second place went to Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-five titles were nominated, down from last month’s 60.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune remained at the top of the trade paperback list, with a slight lead over Frank Herbert’s Dune. There were no new runners-up. There were 55 nominated titles, up from last month’s 52.
On the media- and gaming-related list only two books received enough votes to be listed – first place went to Starlight Enclave by R.A. Salvatore, the first novel in a new Drizzt series, and Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: Thrawn took second. There were no new runners-up. We had 20 nominated titles, the same number as last month.
Compiled with data from: Bakka-Phoenix (Canada), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (two in Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Orca Books (WA), Toadstool (NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: September 2021.
Note: book titles and covers on this page link to IndieBound, a network of independent booksellers, such as those that contribute to this list.
This report and more like it in the December 2021 issue of Locus.
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