Locus Bestsellers, December
The Locus Bestsellers for September include top titles: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), and The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 2) | The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 2 | 2 |
| 3) | The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble) | 3 | 5 |
| 4) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 16 | 7 |
| 5) | The Book of Elsewhere, Keanu Reeves & China Miéville (Del Rey) | 3 | 3 |
| 6) | Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 7) | The Games Gods Play, Abigail Owen (Red Tower) | 1 | – |
| 8) | A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 2 | 1 |
| 9) | A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom) | 29 | 9 |
| 10) | Deep Black, Miles Cameron (Gollancz) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 46 | 1 |
| 2) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 58 | 2 |
| 3) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam Spectra) | 18 | 4 |
| 4) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 37 | – |
| 5) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam) | 19 | 10 |
| 6) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 32 | 9 |
| 7) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 28 | – |
| 8) | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 52 | – |
| 9) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 99 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 1 | – |
| 2) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 29 | 1 |
| 3) | Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US) | 1 | – |
| 4) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 26 | 2 |
| 5) | What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 2 | – |
| 6) | All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 10 | – |
| 7) | Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) 2 – 8) |
2 | – |
| 8) | The Book That Wouldn’t Burn, Mark Lawrence (Ace) | 1 | – |
| *) | Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage) | 7 | 6 |
| 10) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 22 | 3 |
| *) | One Dark Window, Rachel Gillig (Orbit US) | 2 | 3 |
| MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | The Book of Bill, Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue) | 2 | 1 |
| *) | Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising, Dan Abnett (Black Library) | 2 | – |
| 3) | Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, Chris Kempshall (DK) | 1 | – |
Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune’s follow-up to his The House in the Cerulean Sea, jumped to the top of our hardcover list in its first month of release. It had a substantial lead over James S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods, which remained in second. Our new runner-up is Lucy Undying by Kiersten White (Del Rey), which continues the story of Lucy Westenra from Dracula. We had 54 titles nominated this month, up from 49 last month.
The top of our paperback list was a repeat of last month with Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn taking the top spot, followed closely by his The Way of Kings. There were no new runners-up. Sixty titles were nominated this month, down from last month’s 61 titles.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros dethroned Sarah J. Maas, moving A Court of Thorns and Roses into second place on our trade paperback list. Two Twisted Crowns (Orbit US), the second book in Rachel Gillig’s The Shepherd King series, was our new runner-up. There were 75 nominated titles, up from 73 last month.
On the media and gaming-related book list, The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch came in first in a tight contest with our tied second place finishers Dan Abnett’s Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising and Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire by Chris Kempshall. There were no new runners-up. We had 20 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: September 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 December 2024 issue of Locus.
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