Locus Bestsellers, December and January
The Locus Bestsellers for December/January 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 Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi edited by Anonymous (Random House Worlds).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 5 | 1 |
| 2) | Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor) | 2 | 2 |
| 3) | The Fragile Threads of Power, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 2 | 3 |
| 4) | Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 7 | 5 |
| 6) | Masters of Death, Olivie Blake (Tor) | 2 | – |
| 7) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 21 | 7 |
| 8) | Sleep No More, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 2 | 6 |
| 9) | The Innocent Sleep, Seanan McGuire (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 4 | 10 |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 80 | 1 |
| 2) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 35 | 2 |
| 3) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 41 | 3 |
| 4) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 49 | 3 |
| 5) | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 10 | – |
| 6) | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 51 | 8 |
| 7) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 29 | – |
| 8) | Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 18 | – |
| 9) | Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 5 | – |
| 10) | Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 2 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 18 | 2 |
| 2) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 2 | 1 |
| 3) | Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage) | 2 | 5 |
| 4) | The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (Picador) | 5 | 4 |
| 5) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 15 | 3 |
| 6) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 8 | 7 |
| 7) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 12 | 8 |
| 8) | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 19 | 9 |
| 9) | A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | 5 |
| 10) | Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 3 | 10 |
| MEDIA & GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, Anonymous, ed. (Random House Worlds) | 3 | 1 |
| 2) | Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn (Random House Worlds) | 23 | – |
| 3) | Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence, Rafaƚ Kosik | 1 | – |
| 4) | Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Lolth’s Warrior, R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US) | 2 | – |
| 5) | Star Wars: Thrawn: Alliances, Timothy Zahn (Del Rey) | 12 | – |
The bestseller list for our December 2023/January 2024 issue is a combined list with bookseller information from September and October 2023.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros claimed the number one spot on our hardcover list, barely edging out John Scalzi’s standalone, comic novel Starter Villain. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (Tor), the third Secret Projects book by Brandon Sanderson, was our new runner-up. We had 86 nominated titles.
Frank Herbert’s Dune remained in first place on the paperbacks list, winning a tight race with our second-place winner, Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. There were no new runners-up. Ninety-three titles were nominated for September and October.
Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses moved back into the top spot on our trade paperback list with a slight lead over last month’s winner, Babel by R.F. Kuang. There were no new runners-up. There were 113 nominated titles.
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi dominated the media and gaming-related books list with over twice the number of votes of our second-place winner, Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: Thrawn. There were no new runners-up. We had 35 nominated titles.
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 December and January 2023 issue of Locus.
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