Locus Bestsellers, January 2023
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Del Rey), Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (Bantam), and Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom).
PAPERBACKS
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 2 | 2 |
| 2) | Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) | 2 | 1 |
| 3) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) | 3 | 4 |
| 4) | Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Scribner) | 2 | 3 |
| 5) | A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 4 | 8 |
| 6) | Illuminations, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury US) | 1 | – |
| 7) | What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire) | 2 | – |
| 8) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 11 | 9 |
| 9) | Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott (Anchor) | 2 | 10 |
| 10) | Leech, Hiron Ennes (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 6 | 1 |
| 2) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 69 | 3 |
| 3) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 38 | 6 |
| 4) | The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 6 | 4 |
| 5) | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 48 | – |
| 6) | Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 5 | 7 |
| 7) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 23 | 9 |
| 8) | Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 15 | – |
| 9) | The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper Voyager US) | 6 | – |
| *) | Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 2 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom | 18 | – |
| 2) | The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 1 | – |
| 4) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 7 | 3 |
| 5) | A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 11 | 5 |
| 6) | The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga) | 4 | – |
| 7) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 5 | 4 |
| 8) | The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US) | 2 | – |
| *) | Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 31 | – |
Last month’s top two entries on the hardcover list switched places this month with The Golden Enclaves, the final book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series, narrowly beating Tamsyn Muir’s Nona the Ninth for first place. Jason Pargin’s If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe (St. Martin’s), book four in the John Dies at the End series (originally published as by David Wong), is our new runner-up. We had 42 nominated titles, up from 41 last month.
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin held onto the top spot on the paperback list with a respectable lead over Frank Herbert’s Dune, a perennial favorite. The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK) was our new runner-up. Fifty-three titles were nominated, up from last month’s 52.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir returned to the top of the trade paperback list, followed by a new standalone science fiction mystery The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal. There were no new runners-up. There were 66 nominated titles, up from last month’s 63.
On the media-related & gaming-related list, none of the nominated titles received enough votes to make our list. We had 18 nominated titles, the same number as 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: October 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 January 2022 issue of Locus.
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