Locus Bestsellers, July 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for April include top titles The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (Tor), Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (Ace), and The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake (Tor) | 2 | 3 |
| 2) | The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor) | 2 | 5 |
| 3) | Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 3 | 1 |
| 4) | Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) | 1 | – |
| 5) | House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 3 | 4 |
| 6) | Memory’s Legion, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 2 | 2 |
| 7) | Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW) | 1 | – |
| *) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 10 | 8 |
| *) | Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 15 | 3 |
| 2) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 63 | 1 |
| 3) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam) | 12 | – |
| 4) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 18 | 2 |
| 5) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 34 | 7 |
| 6) | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 5 | – |
| 7) | The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US) | 14 | – |
| 8) | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (Del Rey) | 2 | – |
| *) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 88 | 10 |
| *) | A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Clarion) | 5 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 16 | 1 |
| 2) | Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) | 15 | 4 |
| 3) | The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury US) | 10 | 2 |
| 4) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 46 | – |
| 5) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | 6 |
| 6) | Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) | 6 | – |
| 7) | The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) | 3 | – |
| 8) | This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 3 | – |
| *) | The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) | 12 | – |
| 9) | The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US) | 6 | 10 |
| *) | The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook) | 5 | 7 |
| MEDIA & GAMING Related | |||
| *) | Star Wars: Queen’s Hope, E.K. Johnston (Disney Lucasfilm) | 1 | – |
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake climbed to the top of the hardcover list, followed closely by John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society. Our new runner-up was The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe, et al. (Harper Voyager), an anthology based on Monáe’s album Dirty Computer. We had 48 nominated titles, up from 47 last month.
Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah and Dune took first and second place on our paperback list, with the sequel coming out on top of the original by a respectable margin. There were no new runners-up. We had 53 titles nominated, down from last month’s 64.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune held onto the top spot on the trade paperback list, while Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth moved into second place. Ghost story/fantasy mystery The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu was our new runner-up. There were 70 nominated titles, up from last month’s 68.
Only Star Wars: Queen’s Hope by E.K. Johnston received enough votes to make our media and gaming-related book list. There were no new runners-up. We had 18 nominated titles, up from 11 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: April 2022.
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 July 2022 issue of Locus.
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