Locus Bestsellers, November
The Locus Bestsellers for August include top titles: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Tor), Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US), and The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue)).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 2) | The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 3) | The Book of Elsewhere, Keanu Reeves & China Miéville (Del Rey) | 2 | 5 |
| 4) | The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking) | 2 | 6 |
| 5) | The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble) | 2 | 1 |
| 6) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 10 | 2 |
| 7) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 15 | 7 |
| 8) | Lady Macbeth, Ava Reid (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Navola, Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf) | 2 | 9 |
| *) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 28 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 45 | 1 |
| 2) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 57 | 2 |
| 3) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 90 | 3 |
| 4) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam Spectra) | 17 | – |
| 5) | Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 14 | – |
| 6) | A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 101 | – |
| *) | Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 13 | – |
| 8) | Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam) | 13 | 6 |
| 9) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 31 | 8 |
| 10) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam) | 18 | – |
| *) | Storm Front, Jim Butcher (Ace) | 10 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 28 | 1 |
| 2) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 25 | 2 |
| 3) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 21 | 7 |
| *) | One Dark Window, Rachel Gillig (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | 3 |
| 6) | Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage) | 6 | 9 |
| 7) | Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) | 10 | – |
| 8) | Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster) | 59 | – |
| 9) | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) | 23 | 5 |
| 10) | Apprentice to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Red Tower) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | The Book of Bill, Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue) | 1 | – |
| *) | Dragonlance: Dragons of Eternity, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Alien: Uncivil War, Brendan Deneen (Titan) | 1 | – |
| *) | Star Trek: The Original Series: Lost to Eternity, Greg Cox (Gallery) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Star Wars: The Living Force, John Jackson Miller (Random House Worlds) | 2 | 1 |
New releases took the top two spots on our hardcover list, with T. Kingfisher’s standalone A Sorceress Comes to Call in first place, followed by The Mercy of Gods, the first book in James S.A. Corey’s The Captive’s War series. Our new runner-up is Brothersong (Tor), the fourth and final book in TJ Klune’s Green Creek series. We had 49 titles nominated this month, down from 51 last month.
Our paperback list demonstrated remarkable consistency with the top three spots a repeat from last month. Brandon Sanderson claimed the first and second place with Mistborn and The Way of Kings, respectively, followed by Frank Herbert’s Dune. There were no new runners-up. Sixty-one titles were nominated this month, up from last month’s 57 titles.
Sarah J. Maas had fewer books on our trade paperback list this month, but she scored a hat trick with A Court of Thorns and Roses coming in first, A Court of Mist and Fury in second, and A Court of Wings and Ruin, tying with Rachel Gillig’s One Dark Window in third. Long Live Evil, a comic fantasy by Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US), was our new runner-up. There were 73 nominated titles, up from 66 last month.
On the media and gaming-related book list, we had ties for both first and third place. New releases The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch, a Gravity Falls tie-in, and the third book of Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Destinies series, Dragonlance: Dragons of Eternity took first. Third place went to Brendan Deneen’s Alien: Uncivil War and Star Trek: The Original Series: Lost to Eternity by Greg Cox. We had 19 nominated titles, one more than 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: August 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 November 2024 issue of Locus.
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