Locus Bestsellers, November 2023
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and DragonLance: DragonLance Destinies: Dragons of Fate by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Random House Worlds).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 3 | 2 |
| 2) | The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 2 | 4 |
| *) | Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 5 | 8 |
| 4) | Masters of Death, Olivie Blake (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Light Bringer, Pierce Brown (Del Rey) | 2 | 1 |
| 6) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 19 | 6 |
| 7) | Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Cassiel’s Servant, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) | 1 | – |
| *) | In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune (Tor) | 4 | – |
| 10) | The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US) | 5 | 9 |
| *) | The Archive Undying, Emma Mieko Candon (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| *) | A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire) | 2 | – |
| *) | The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey) | 2 | 10 |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 78 | 1 |
| 2) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 39 | 6 |
| 3) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 33 | 2 |
| 4) | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (Del Rey) | 5 | 10 |
| 5) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 13 | 3 |
| 6) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 28 | 4 |
| 7) | Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 10 | – |
| *) | To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, Christopher Paolini (Tor) | 5 | – |
| 9) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 10 | – |
| *) | God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 5 | – |
| *) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 47 | 9 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 16 | 1 |
| 2) | A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 17 | – |
| *) | The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury US) | 18 | – |
| 4) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 13 | 4 |
| 5) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 6 | 10 |
| *) | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 17 | 7 |
| 7) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 12 | 2 |
| 8) | The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (Picador) | 3 | 3 |
| 9) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 10 | 4 |
| 10) | Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | DragonLance: DragonLance Destinies: Dragons of Fate, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Lolth’s Warrior, R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US) | 1 | – |
| 1) | Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn (Random House Worlds) | 22 | – |
| 1) | Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, Anonymous, ed. (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
After being knocked back to second last month, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros reclaimed the first place on our hardcover list with a comfortable lead over our tied second-place finishers – The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England and Tress of the Emerald Sea. Both books were part of Brandon Sanderson’s Secret Projects Kickstarter. Emma Törzs’s debut fantasy novel Ink Blood Sister Scribe (Morrow) is our new runner-up. We had 60 nominated titles, up from 54 last month.
Long-time favorites dominated our paperback list, with Frank Herbert’s Dune remaining on top, and second place going to Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett. There were no new runners-up. Sixty-three titles were nominated this month, down from last month’s 67 titles.
First and second place on our trade paperback list went to two series books; Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses held onto the number one position, followed closely by A Deadly Education, the first book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy. Upgrade (Ballantine), a science fiction thriller by Blake Crouch, was our new runner up. There were 63 nominated titles, down from 74 titles last month.
On the media and gaming-related book list, DragonLance: DragonLance Destinies: Dragons of Fate by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman took first place with a decisive lead over R.A. Salvatore’s Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Lolth’s Warrior in second. There were no new runners-up. We had 23 nominated titles, up from 21 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: August 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 November 2023 issue of Locus.
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