Locus Bestsellers, June 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) | Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 2 | 3 |
| 2) | Memory’s Legion, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 4) | House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 2 | 2 |
| 5) | The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 11 | 4 |
| 7) | Crowbone, Anne Bishop (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 8) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | – |
| 9) | Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 4 | – |
| 10) | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 16 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 62 | 3 |
| 2) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 17 | – |
| 3) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 14 | 5 |
| 4) | The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 3 | – |
| 5) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet Classic) | 21 | – |
| 6) | Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 14 | – |
| 7) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 33 | – |
| 8) | Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US) | 9 | – |
| *) | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 47 | – |
| 10) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 87 | 1 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 15 | 2 |
| 2) | The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | – |
| 3) | A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 8 | 7 |
| 4) | Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) | 14 | – |
| 5) | Sword and Shadow, Michelle Sagara (Mira) | 1 | – |
| 6) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 8 | 3 |
| 7) | The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook) | 4 | – |
| *) | Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central) | 17 | 7 |
| 9) | The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) | 3 | – |
| 10) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 1 | – |
| *) | A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor) | 1 | – |
| *) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 9 | 9 |
| *) | The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US) | 5 | 4 |
| *) | Spelunking Through Hell, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING Related | |||
| *) | Critical Role: Vox Machina: Kith & Kin, Marieke Nijkamp (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
Dawnshard, the latest book in Brandon Sanderson’s series The Stormlight Archive, moved to the top of the hardcover list, followed closely by James S.A. Corey’s Memory’s Legion, a compilation of all the short stories in the Expanse universe. Our new runner-up was Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor Nightfire), a new standalone novel. We had 47 nominated titles, up from 46 last month.
Dune by Frank Herbert regained the top spot on the paperback list with a decisive victory over all other contenders. Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn came in second. Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs (Ace), book six in her Alpha and Omega series, was our new runner-up. Sixty-four titles were nominated, up from last month’s 57.
On the trade paperback list, standalones nabbed the top two spots with TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea moving back into first place, with a substantial lead over The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon in second. There were no new runners-up. There were 68 nominated titles, the same number as last month.
For media and gaming-related books, only Critical Role: Vox Machina: Kith & Kin by Marieke Nijkamp received enough votes to make the list. There were no new runners-up. We had 11 nominated titles, down from 22 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: March 2022.
Data period: March 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 June 2022 issue of Locus.
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