Locus Bestsellers, March
The Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles: Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Tor), and DragonLance: Dragons of Deceit, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Del Rey).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
|
| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 7 | 3 |
| 2) | The Narrow Road Between Desires, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 2 | 4 |
| 3) | System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 2 | 1 |
| 4) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 2 | 2 |
| 5) | Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor) | 4 | 5 |
| 6) | Sword Catcher, Cassandra Clare (Del Rey) | 3 | 6 |
| 7) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 22 | – |
| 8) | The Olympian Affair, Jim Butcher (Ace) | 2 | 8 |
| 9) | Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 8 | – |
| 10) | The Lost Cause, Cory Doctorow (Tor) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 82 | 1 |
| 2) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 37 | 4 |
| 3) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 14 | – |
| 4) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 50 | 7 |
| 5) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 43 | 2 |
| 6) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 97 | 6 |
| 7) | Penric’s Labors, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) | 2 | 3 |
| 8) | Hogfather, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 3 | – |
| *) | Old Man’s War, John Scalzi (Tor) | 9 | – |
| 10) | A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Clarion) | 12 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 10 | 3 |
| 3) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 4 | 2 |
| 4) | Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage) | 4 | 8 |
| 5) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 13 | |
| 6) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 20 | 4 |
| 7) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 17 | 10 |
| 8) | Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 4 | 8 |
| *) | The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (Picador) | 7 | 6 |
| 10) | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 6 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | DragonLance: Dragons of Deceit, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Del Rey) | 5 | – |
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Homeland, R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 2 | – |
Last month’s published numbers combined information from both October and November. The combined numbers affected the rankings of the books, as well as the number of months on the list, and their last month ranking. To bring this month’s list in line with our usual numbering system, we have calculated the numbers for both October and November separately and the numbers above reflect a continuation of November’s information.
On the hardcover list, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros took first place in a close race with Patrick Rothfuss’s latest Kingkiller Chronicle universe release, The Narrow Road Between Desires. The Will of the Many, a fantasy set in an ancient Rome-like civilization by James Islington (Saga) was our new runner-up. We had 43 nominated titles, down from 45 last month.
Frank Herbert’s Dune remained at the top of the paperback list for another month with a substantial lead over our second-place finisher, Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. There were no new runners-up. Sixty-six titles were nominated this month, up from last month’s 56 titles.
Travis Baldree’s novels of high fantasy and low stakes, Bookshops & Bonedust and Legends & Lattes dominated the trade paperback list, taking both first and second place respectively. Shards of Glass by Michelle Sagara (Mira) is our new runner-up. The trade paperback list had 58 nominated titles, down from last month’s 61.
On the media and gaming-related book list, only two books made our list. In an extremely close race, DragonLance: Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, barely edged out R.A. Salvatore’s Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Homeland. There were no new runners-up. We had 25 nominated titles, up from 12 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: December 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 March 2024 issue of Locus.
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