Locus Bestsellers, November 2022
The Locus Bestsellers for August include top titles: Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury), and Dragonlance Destines: Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Del Rey).
PAPERBACKS
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| 2) | A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 2 | 1 |
| 3) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 9 | 2 |
| 4) | All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley) | 4 | 2 |
| 5) | Soul Taken, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 6) | The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) | 2 | 9 |
| 7) | The Art of Prophecy, Wesley Chu (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 8) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | 10 |
| 9) | Be the Serpent, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 10) | The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 67 | 2 |
| 2) | Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 6 | – |
| 3) | To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, Christopher Paolini (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 3 | 1 |
| 5) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 36 | – |
| 6) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 19 | – |
| 7) | The Ruin of Kings, Jenn Lyons (Tor) | 5 | 6 |
| 8) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 2 | – |
| 9) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 19 | 4 |
| 10) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 91 | 5 |
| *) | The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) | 1 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 3 | – |
| 2) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 19 | 10 |
| 3) | Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) | 17 | 7 |
| 4) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | – |
| 5) | Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central) | 21 | 4 |
| 6) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US | 2 | – |
| 7) | A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 2 | – |
| *) | Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US) | 11 | 1 |
| *) | A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING Related | |||
| 1) | Dragonlance Destinies: Dragons of Deceit, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith, Adam Christopher (Del Rey) | 3 | 2 |
| 3) | Star Wars: Brotherhood, Mike Chen (Del Rey) | 4 | 2 |
| *) | Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel, Beth Revis (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Phasers on Stun!, Ryan Britt (Plume) | 2 | – |
Pushing last month’s winner, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers, into second place, R.F. Kuang’s Babel jumped to the top of the hardcover list in its first month of release. Our new runner-up was A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys (Tordotcom), a standalone, literary, science fiction, first contact novel. We had 50 nominated titles, down from 54 last month.
Frank Herbert’s Dune recaptured the top spot on the paperback list, barely surpassing its sequel Children of Dune, which took second. When Sorrows Come, the 15th book in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series (DAW) was our new runner-up. Fifty titles were nominated, down from last month’s 58.
Sarah J. Maas took first place on the trade paperback list with A Court of Mist and Fury, the second book in her A Court of Thorns and Roses series, in a close victory over long-time favorite The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. The international export-only version of Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters (Tor) was our new runner-up. There were 59 nominated titles, down from last month’s 68.
On the media-related & gaming-related list, DragonLance Destinies: Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, the first book in a new Dragonlance series, edged out Adam Christopher’s Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith for the top spot. There were no new runners-up. We had 17 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), Toadstool (NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: August 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 October 2022 issue of Locus.
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