Locus Bestsellers, June
The Locus Bestsellers for March include top titles: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), and A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US)
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 10 | 2 |
| 2) | A Fate Inked in Blood, Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 5 | 4 |
| 4) | House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 3 | 1 |
| 5) | The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 6) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 24 | – |
| *) | What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire) | 2 | 10 |
| 8) | Empire of the Damned, Jay Kristoff (St. Martin’s) | 1 | – |
| *) | System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 5 | 3 |
| 10) | The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House) | 2 | 5 |
| *) | Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) | 3 | 6 |
| *) | The Will of the Many, James Islington (Saga) | 2 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 85 | 2 |
| 2) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 32 | 3 |
| 3) | Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 9 | – |
| 4) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 40 | 1 |
| 5) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 11 | – |
| 6) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 26 | 5 |
| 7) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam Spectra) | 16 | – |
| 8) | American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 46 | – |
| *) | Mort, Terry Pratchett (Harper) | 1 | – |
| 10) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 27 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 23 | 3 |
| 2) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 54 | – |
| 3) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 16 | 2 |
| 4) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 18 | 7 |
| 5) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 20 | 1 |
| 6) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 11 | 5 |
| 7) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 7 | 6 |
| 8) | Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 6 | 10 |
| 9) | Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart, GennaRose Nethercott (Vintage) | 2 | 8 |
| 10) | The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown (Morrow) | 1 | – |
| *) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 11 | – |
| *) | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 21 | 10 |
Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing moved back to the top of the hardcover list, with new release, A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen (book one in her Saga of the Unfated series), in second. Three Kinds of Lucky (Ace), the first book in Kim Harrison’s The Shadow Age series, was our new runner-up. We had 51 nominated titles, down from 59 last month.
Frank Herbert dominated the paperback list this month with Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune in first, second, and third place. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-three titles were nominated this month, up from last month’s 49 titles.
On the trade paperback list, Sarah J. Maas continued her preeminence with six books, including our first-place winner, A Court of Thorns and Roses. After a long hiatus, and the release of a critically acclaimed TV series, The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu returned to the list in second place. There were no new runners-up. The trade paperback list had 62 nominated titles, down from last month’s 70.
On the media and gaming-related book list, none of the books nominated had enough votes to make our list. We had 27 nominated titles, up from 19 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: March 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 June 2024 issue of Locus.
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