Locus Bestsellers, February
The Locus Bestsellers for September include top titles: The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US), 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) | The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) | 2 | 3 |
| 2) | Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor) | 3 | 1 |
| 3) | Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey) | 3 | 8 |
| 4) | The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble) | 5 | 2 |
| 5) | Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 12 | 5 |
| 6) | Blood Over Bright Haven, M.L. Wang (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 7) | The Courting of Bristol Keats, Mary E. Pearson (Flatiron) | 1 | – |
| *) | Polostan, Neal Stephenson (Morrow) | 1 | – |
| 8) | The Book of Elsewhere, Keanu Reeves & China Miéville (Del Rey) | 5 | 6 |
| *) | The Songbird & the Heart of Stone, Carissa Broadbent (Bramble) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 48 | 2 |
| 2) | The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 60 | 1 |
| 3) | The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 2 | 5 |
| *) | The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) | 100 | – |
| 5) | Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Bantam Spectra) | 19 | – |
| 6) | The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace) | 33 | – |
| 7) | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey) | 54 | 9 |
| 8) | Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Ace) | 14 | – |
| 9) | 1984, George Orwell (Signet) | 29 | – |
| 10) | Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Bantam) | 21 | 3 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 31 | 3 |
| 2) | Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) | 3 | 1 |
| 3) | A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 13 | – |
| 4) | Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 14 | 4 |
| *) | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 7 | 1 |
| 7) | A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 28 | 2 |
| 8) | A Teller of Small Fortunes, Julie Leong (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 9) | One Dark Window, Rachel Gillig (Orbit US) | 4 | 6 |
| 10) | Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) | 9 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | The Book of Bill, Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue) | 4 | 2 |
| *) | Dragonlance: Dragons of Eternity, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Random House Worlds) | 2 | – |
| 3) | Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Bound for Ruin, Jaleigh Johnson (Random House Worlds) | 1 | – |
Susanna Clarke’s The Wood at Midwinter squeaked by last month’s winner, TJ Klune’s Somewhere Beyond the Sea, to take the top spot on the hard cover list. Our new runner-up was Overcaptain by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor), the 24th book in his long-running Saga of Recluce. We had 62 titles nominated this month, up from 56 last month.
Brandon Sanderson dominated the paperback list, taking the first three places with Mistborn, The Way of Kings, and The Lost Metal. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-seven titles were nominated this month, up from last month’s 54 titles.
On the trade paperback list, Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses moved back to the top of the list followed closely by Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. There were no new runners-up. There were 73 nominated titles, up from 66 last month.
Alex Hirsch’s Gravity Falls tie-in The Book of Bill moved back to the top of the media- and gaming-related list, with a substantial lead over our second-place finisher Dragonlance: Dragons of Eternity by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, book three in the Dragonlance Destinies series. There were no new runners-up. We had 18 nominated titles, down from last month’s 21.
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: November 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 February 2025 issue of Locus.
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