Locus Bestsellers, October 2023
The Locus Bestsellers for July include top titles: Light Bringer by Pierce Brown (Del Rey), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen (Random House Worlds).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Light Bringer, Pierce Brown (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 2 | – |
| 3) | Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 2 | 1 |
| 4) | The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US) | 2 | 4 |
| 6) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 18 | 5 |
| 7) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) | 12 | 3 |
| 8) | Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 4 | 6 |
| 9) | The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US) | 4 | – |
| 10) | The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 77 | 1 |
| 2) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 32 | 4 |
| 3) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 12 | 5 |
| 4) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 27 | – |
| 5) | Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 12 | – |
| 6) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 38 | 6 |
| 7) | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 9 | – |
| 8) | The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 38 | 10 |
| 9) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 46 | 2 |
| 10) | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (Del Rey) | 4 | 8 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 15 | 5 |
| 2) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 11 | 1 |
| 3) | The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (Picador) | 2 | 3 |
| 4) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | 7 |
| *) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | 6 |
| 6) | All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley) | 2 | – |
| 7) | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 16 | 4 |
| 8) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 53 | – |
| 9) | Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 2 | – |
| 10) | All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 6 | – |
| *) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 5 | 9 |
| *) | Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 9 | 2 |
| MEDIA & GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: Brotherhood, Mike Chen (Random House Worlds) | 5 | – |
Light Bringer, the latest book in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series, jumped to the top of the hardcover list in its first month of publication, while Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing, which moved back onto our list after a month away, came in second. Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new horror/fantasy/mystery was our new runner-up. We had 54 nominated titles, up from 46 last month.
Perennial favorite Dune by Frank Herbert dominated the paperback list for another month, with Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn in second place. There were no new runners-up. Sixty-seven titles were nominated this month, up from last month’s 58 titles.
A Court of Thorns and Roses, the first book in Sarah J. Maas’s bestselling series, took the top spot on our trade paperback list and pushed last month’s first-place winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, into second. There were no new runners-up, with 74 nominated titles, up from 69 titles last month.
Only one book, Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen, received enough votes to make our media and gaming-related list. We had 21 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), Toadstool (two in NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: July 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 October 2023 issue of Locus.
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