Locus Bestsellers, July 2023
The Locus Bestsellers for July include top titles: A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury US), Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace), and A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury US) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US) | 2 | 2 |
| 5) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 15 | 3 |
| 6) | In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 7) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) | 9 | 4 |
| 8) | Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) | 3 | – |
| 9) | Tsalmoth, Steven Brust (Tor | 1 | – |
| *) | White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 74 | 1 |
| 2) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 43 | 2 |
| 3) | Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 8 | – |
| *) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 25 | 8 |
| *) | Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 3 | – |
| 6) | Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 36 | – |
| 7) | Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 3 | 7 |
| 8) | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 49 | – |
| *) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 9 | 5 |
| 10) | God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 4 | 9 |
| *) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 29 | 3 |
| *) | A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Clarion) | 11 | 4 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | 6 |
| 2) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | 2 |
| 3) | A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 6 | 9 |
| 4) | Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 6 | 1 |
| 6) | The Assassin’s Blade, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 1 | – |
| 7) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 6 | 5 |
| 8) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 8 | 8 |
| *) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 4 | 3 |
| 10) | A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 16 | – |
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon remained at the top of the hardcover list for another month with a respectable lead over T. Kingfisher’s new standalone novel, A House with Good Bones in second place. Garth Nix’s sequel to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Tegen), was our new runner-up. We had 49 nominated titles, down from 60 last month.
Old favorites continued to dominate the paperback list. All the books on our top ten list were originally published prior to 2011. Frank Herbert’s Dune stayed in first place, followed closely by The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. There were no new runners-up. Sixty-five titles were nominated this month, tying with the same number last month.
Sarah J. Maas monopolized our trade paperback list this month with six titles on the list, and three books in her A Court of Thorns and Roses series – A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury and A Court of Frost and Starlight – coming in first, second, and third places, respectively. Our new runner-up was All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley).
No media-related or gaming-related books received enough votes to make our list. We had 19 nominated titles, the same as last month.
Compiled with data from: Bakka-Phoenix (Canada), Book Moon (MA), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (two in Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Toadstool (two in NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: March 2023.
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 2023 issue of Locus.
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