Locus Bestsellers, August 2023
The Locus Bestsellers for July include top titles: Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace), and A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars, Charles Soule (Del Rey).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 1 | – |
| 2) | In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune (Tor) | 2 | 6 |
| 3) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 16 | 5 |
| 4) | Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 2 | 3 |
| 5) | A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury US) | 3 | 1 |
| 6) | The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US) | 3 | 4 |
| 7) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) | 10 | 7 |
| 8) | Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 9) | The Ferryman, Justin Cronin (Ballantine | 1 | – |
| 10) | The Malevolent Seven, Sebastien de Castell (Jo Fletcher) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 75 | 1 |
| 2) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 30 | 10 |
| 3) | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 8 | – |
| 4) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 94 | – |
| *) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 44 | 2 |
| 6) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 10 | 9 |
| *) | Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 16 | – |
| 8) | The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 9 | – |
| 9) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 26 | 3 |
| 10) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 24 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 13 | 1 |
| 2) | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 14 | – |
| 3) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 10 | 2 |
| 4) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 7 | 7 |
| 5) | Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 7 | 5 |
| 6) | A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 7 | 3 |
| 7) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 9 | 8 |
| 8) | Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor) | 2 | – |
| 9) | All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 52 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars, Sam Maggs (Random House Worlds) | 2 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, Charles Soule (Del Rey) | 9 | – |
New release Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, jumped to the top of the hardcover list with a respectable lead over our second place finisher, TJ Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets. Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini (Tor), a prequel to his To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, was our new runner-up. We had 54 nominated titles, up from 49 last month.
Frank Herbert and Brandon Sanderson remained at the top of the paperback list for another month with Herbert’s Dune in first place and Sanderson’s Mistborn, instead of The Way of Kings, in second. There were no new runners-up. Seventy-three titles were nominated this month, up from last month’s 65 titles.
Sarah J. Maas continued to dominate our trade paperback list with four titles on this month’s list. Her A Court of Thorns and Roses came in first, barely surpassing Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstones’s This Is How You Lose the Time War. There were no new runners-up, with 81 nominated titles, up from 61 titles last month.
Star Wars monopolized our Media and Gaming-Related list with Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars by Sam Maggs, and Charles Soule’s Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi coming in first and second, respectively. We had 24 nominated titles, up from 19 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 (two in NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: May 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 August 2023 issue of Locus.
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