Locus Bestsellers, February
The Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles: System Collapse by Martha Wells (Tordotcom), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Tor), and Star Wars: The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness by George Mann (Random House Worlds).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 6 | 2 |
| 4) | The Narrow Road Between Desires, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor) | 3 | 1 |
| 6) | Sword Catcher, Cassandra Clare (Del Rey) | 2 | 8 |
| 7) | Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor) | 2 | 4 |
| 8) | The Olympian Affair, Jim Butcher (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 9) | The Fragile Threads of Power, V.E. Schwab (Tor) | 3 | 2 |
| 10) | A Curse of Krakens, Kevin Hearne (Del Rey) | 1 | 1 |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 81 | 1 |
| 2) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 42 | 1 |
| 3) | Penric’s Labors, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 36 | 1 |
| 5) | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (Del Rey) | 6 | – |
| 6) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 96 | – |
| 7) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 49 | – |
| 8) | A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 100 | – |
| 9) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 26 | 6 |
| *) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 30 | 7 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 3 | 3 |
| 3) | Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 9 | – |
| 4) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 19 | 1 |
| 5) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 15 | – |
| 6) | The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (Picador) | 6 | 4 |
| 7) | Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage) | 3 | 2 |
| *) | Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 3 | 1 |
| 10) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 16 | 6 |
| MEDIA & GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness, George Mann (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
On the hardcover list, System Collapse, the latest book in Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries series, took first place with a comfortable lead over Rebecca Yarros’s Iron Flame, the second book in her planned five-book series. The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow (Tor) was our new runner-up. We had 45 nominated titles, down from 46 last month.
Dune’s dominance on the paperback list continued for another month, with the first book in Frank Herbert’s epic saga maintaining a respectable lead over Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s fantasy Good Omens. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-six titles were nominated this month, down from last month’s 61 titles.
Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree’s prequel to his high fantasy, low-stakes novel Legends & Lattes, took first place with a large lead over R.F. Kuang’s alternate history/fantasy novel Babel. There were no new runners-up. The trade paperback list had 61 nominated titles, down from last month’s 70.
On the media and gaming-related book list, only Star Wars: The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness by George Mann received enough votes to make our list. There were no new runners-up. We had 12 nominated titles, down from 22 last month.
Compiled with data from: Bakka-Phoenix (Canada), Book Moon (MA), Borderlands (CA), McNally Robinson (Canada), Mysterious Galaxy (CA), Toadstool (two in NH), White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: November 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 February 2024 issue of Locus.
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