Locus Bestsellers, January
The Locus Bestsellers for September include top titles: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (Tor), The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower), and Critical Role: Bells Hells: What Doesn’t Break by Cassandra Khaw (Random House Worlds).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble) | 4 | 3 |
| 3) | The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US) | 3 | 2 |
| 4) | The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 11 | – |
| 6) | The Book of Elsewhere, Keanu Reeves & China Miéville (Del Rey) | 4 | 5 |
| 7) | A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor) | 3 | 8 |
| 8) | Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 2 | 6 |
| *) | The Great When, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury US) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Deep Black, Miles Cameron (Gollancz) | 2 | 10 |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 59 | 2 |
| 2) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 47 | 1 |
| 3) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam) | 20 | 5 |
| 4) | Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 91 | – |
| 5) | The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 6) | Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Scribner) | 2 | – |
| 7) | The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) | 14 | – |
| 8) | Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 38 | 4 |
| 9) | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (Del Rey) | 8 | – |
| *) | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 53 | 8 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 2 | 1 |
| 2) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 27 | 4 |
| 3) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 30 | 2 |
| 4) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 13 | – |
| 5) | A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 23 | 10 |
| 6) | All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) | 8 | 8 |
| *) | One Dark Window, Rachel Gillig (Orbit US) | 3 | 10 |
| 8) | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 23 | – |
| 9) | Pirate’s Life for Tea, Rebecca Thorne (Bramble) | 1 | – |
| 10) | Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central) | 24 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Critical Role: Bells Hells: What Doesn’t Break, Cassandra Khaw (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Book of Bill, Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue) | 3 | 1 |
| 3) | Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss, Steven Barnes (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Warhammer 40,000: Angron: The Red Angel, David Guymer (Black Library) | 1 | – |
On the hardcover list, Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune held onto first place with a substantial lead over Sarah Beth Durst’s foray into romantasy, The Spellshop. Our new runner-up was Blackheart Man (Saga), a new fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson. We had 56 titles nominated this month, up from 54 last month.
Brandon Sanderson continued his domination of the paperback list with last month’s two top titles switching places. This month, The Way of Kings moved to the top spot with a significant number of votes over second place Mistborn. Seanan McGuire’s Sleep No More (DAW), the 17th book in her long-running October Daye series, was our new runner-up. Fifty-four titles were nominated this month, down from last month’s 60 titles.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros beat back all comers, retaining the top spot on our trade paperback list. Sarah J. Mass claimed second place with A Court of Mist and Fury, as well as two other spots. The latest book in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series, Absolution (MCD), was our new runner-up. There were 66 nominated titles, down from 75 last month.
On the media and gaming-related book list, Critical Role: Bells Hells: What Doesn’t Break by Cassandra Khaw dethroned Alex Hirsch’s The Book of Bill which moved into second. There were no new runners-up. We had 21 nominated titles, one more than last month’s 20.
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 January 2024 issue of Locus.
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