Locus Bestsellers, July
The Locus Bestsellers for April include top titles: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Tor), and Star Wars: The Living Force, by John Jackson Miller (Random House Worlds).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 11 | 1 |
| 2) | The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) | 1 | – |
| 3) | A Fate Inked in Blood, Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey) | 2 | 2 |
| 4) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 25 | 6 |
| 5) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 6 | 3 |
| 6) | House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 4 | 4 |
| 7) | The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 9) | System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 6 | 8 |
| 10) | To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, Molly X. Chang (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 86 | 1 |
| 2) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 33 | 2 |
| 3) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 41 | 4 |
| 4) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 27 | 6 |
| 5) | God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 6 | – |
| 6) | Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 10 | 3 |
| 7) | Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 5 | – |
| 8) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 53 | – |
| 9) | Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 11 | – |
| 10) | Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Morrow) | 46 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) | 55 | 2 |
| 2) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 24 | 1 |
| 3) | A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 11 | – |
| 4) | Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 5) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 21 | 5 |
| 6) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 8 | 7 |
| 7) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 17 | 3 |
| 8) | All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 8 | – |
| 9) | The Assassin’s Blade, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 2 | – |
| 10) | House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 19 | 4 |
| MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Wars: The Living Force, John Jackson Miller (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence, Rafał Kosik (Orbit US) | 2 | – |
| 3) | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country, John Jackson Miller (Gallery) | 1 | – |
Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing held onto the top of the hardcover list by the barest of margins over The Familiar, a historical fantasy set in golden age Spain, by Leigh Bardugo. Our new runner-up was The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet (Del Rey), the second book in his Shadow of the Leviathan series. We had 54 nominated titles, up from 51 last month.
For the second month in a row, Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah dominated the paperback list in first and second place respectively. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-seven titles were nominated this month, up from last month’s 53 titles.
On the trade paperback list, The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu rose to first place, with a substantial lead over last month’s winner, Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses. Rachel Gillig’s One Dark Window, the first book in The Shepherd King fantasy series, was our new runner-up (Orbit US). The trade paperback list had 62 nominated titles, the same number as last month.
On the media and gaming-related book list, John Jackson Miller’s Star Wars: The Living Force took the top spot with a respectable lead over Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence by Rafał Kosik. There were no runners-up. We had 16 nominated titles, down from 27 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: April 2024
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 July 2024 issue of Locus.
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