Locus Bestsellers, May 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for March include top titles Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James (Riverhead), The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW), and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James (Riverhead) | 1 | – |
| 2) | House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 10 | 2 |
| 5) | Quantum of Nightmares, Charles Stross (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 2 | – |
| 7) | Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson (Morrow) | 4 | 3 |
| 8) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 5 | – |
| 9) | How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 86 | – |
| 2) | Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (Tor) | 10 | 7 |
| 3) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 61 | 1 |
| 4) | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 4 | – |
| 5) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 13 | 2 |
| 6) | The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US) | 13 | 4 |
| 7) | Gun Runner, Larry Correia & John D. Brown (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam) | 11 | 5 |
| 9) | A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Clarion) | 4 | – |
| 10) | The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan (Tor) | 4 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) | 5 | 4 |
| 2) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 14 | 3 |
| 3) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 7 | – |
| 4) | The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US) | 4 | 1 |
| 5) | The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 7 | 10 |
| 6) | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US) | 9 | – |
| 7) | A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 7 | – |
| *) | Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central) | 16 | – |
| 9) | Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Sue Lynn Tan (Harper Voyager Canada) | 1 | – |
| *) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 8 | 5 |
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James, the second book in The Dark Star trilogy, debuted at the top spot on our hardcover list, followed closely by the second book in Sarah J. Maas’s Crescent City series, House of Sky and Breath. Our runner-up was Tochi Onyebuchi’s adult novel debut Goliath (Tordotcom). We had 46 nominated titles, down from 54 last month.
Dune’s lock on the top spot of the paperback list ended this month, with old favorite The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss moving back into first place. Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World, the first book in The Wheel of Time series, came in a close second. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-seven titles were nominated, up from last month’s 38.
After months on the trade paperback list, Piranesi by Susanna Clark moved into first place, in a tight race over our second-place finisher, TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea. Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (Nightfire) was our new runner-up. There were 68 nominated titles, down from last month’s 69.
For media and gaming-related books, no book received enough points to make our list. There were no new runners-up. We had 22 nominated titles, up from 15 last month.
Compiled with data from: Bakka-Phoenix (Canada), Book Moon (MA), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (two in Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Orca Books (WA), Toadstool (NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: February 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.
See this listing and more like it in the May 2022 issue of Locus.
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