Locus Bestsellers, August 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for May include top titles Book of Night by Holly Black (Tor), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), and The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Book of Night, Holly Black (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 2) | All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley) | 1 | – |
| 3) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 6 | – |
| 4) | House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 4 | 5 |
| *) | Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 2 | 10 |
| 6) | The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor) | 3 | 2 |
| 7) | Memory’s Legion, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 3 | 6 |
| 8) | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 17 | – |
| 9) | Seasonal Fears, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| *) | Wild and Wicked Things, Francesca May (Redbook) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 64 | 2 |
| 2) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 16 | 1 |
| 3) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 19 | 4 |
| 4) | The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 4 | – |
| 5) | The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper Voyager US) | 4 | – |
| 6) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 22 | – |
| *) | A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Clarion) | 6 | 8 |
| 8) | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 6 | 6 |
| 9) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 5 | – |
| 10) | The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan (Tor) | 5 | – |
| *) | Spectrum, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 35 | 5 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook) | 6 | 9 |
| 2) | Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central) | 18 | – |
| 3) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 17 | 1 |
| 4) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 47 | 4 |
| 5) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 2 | – |
| 6) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 2 | – |
| *) | The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury US) | 11 | 3 |
| 8) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 10 | 5 |
| 9) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 10 | – |
| 10) | The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US) | 54 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING Related | |||
| *) | Star Wars: Brotherhood, Mike Chen (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| *) | Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, Charles Soule (Del Rey) | 8 | – |
Two newly released novels took the top spots on the hardcover list, with Book of Night by Holly Black coming out on top, followed by Guy Gavriel Kay’s All the Seas of the World. Our new runner-up was Razzmatazz, the sequel to Noir, by Christopher Moore (Morrow). We had 44 nominated titles, down from 48 last month.
On the paperback list, our two top finishers from last month, Dune and Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, switched places taking first and second place respectively. Fairhaven Rising by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor), the 22nd book in the Saga of Recluce series was our new runner-up. Fifty-two titles were nominated, down from last month’s 53.
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow narrowly edged out Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower for the top spot on the trade paperback list. The Embroidered Book, a historical fantasy by Kate Heartfield (Harper Voyager UK), was our new runner-up. There were 72 nominated titles, up from last month’s 70.
Only two books had enough votes to make our media-related & gaming-related list, with new release Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen barely beating Charles Soule’s Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi for first place. There were no new runners-up. We had 21 nominated titles, up from 18 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: May 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 August 2022 issue of Locus.
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