Locus Bestsellers, April
The Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles: Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and Aliens: Bishop, T.R. Napper.
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 8 | 1 |
| 2) | House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 3 | 4 |
| 4) | The Narrow Road Between Desires, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 3 | 2 |
| 5) | System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 3 | 3 |
| 6) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 23 | 7 |
| 7) | The Will of the Many, James Islington (Saga) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom) | 1 | – |
| 9) | The Atlas Complex, Olivie Blake (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 83 | 1 |
| 2) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 38 | 2 |
| 3) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) | 15 | 3 |
| 4) | American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 45 | – |
| 5) | Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Morrow) | 44 | 5 |
| 6) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 24 | – |
| 7) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam) | 15 | – |
| *) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 51 | 4 |
| 9) | The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 11 | – |
| *) | Stardust, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 3 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 18 | 7 |
| 2) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 21 | 6 |
| *) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 14 | 5 |
| 4) | Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 11 | 2 |
| 5) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 5 | 3 |
| 6) | A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | – |
| 7) | Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree (Tor) | 3 | 1 |
| 8) | All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 7 | – |
| *) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | – |
| 10) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 16 | – |
| MEDIA & GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Aliens: Bishop, T.R. Napper (Titan) | 5 | – |
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros remained at the top of the hardcover list, squeaking out a razor-thin victory over Sarah J. Maas’s latest book in her Crescent City series, House of Flame and Shadow. The Serpent & the Wings of Night, the first book in the Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent (Bramble), was our new runner-up. We had 52 nominated titles, up from 43 last month. Dune by Frank Herbert took the top spot on the paperback list, with Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn a distant second. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-three titles were nominated this month, down from last month’s 66 titles.
Sarah J. Maas dominated the trade paperback list with six books including A Court of Mist and Fury in first place, and A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Wings and Ruin in second. Our new runner-up was Heir of Fire (Bloomsbury US), the third book in Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass series. The trade paperback list had 61 nominated titles, up from last month’s 58.
On the media and gaming-related book list, only one book made our list, Aliens: Bishop by T.R. Napper. There were no new runners-up. We had 16 nominated titles, down from 25 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: January 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 April 2024 issue of Locus.
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