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Locus Bestsellers, January 2021

January 20, 2021December 29, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for January include top titles Battle Ground by Jim Butcher, Dune by Frank Herbert, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 18 January 2021

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A new Star Wars novel by Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi (Del Rey), debuts on three print lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 11 January 2021

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V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ascends into the top 10 on three print lists, while the #1 selling title on Amazon.com this morning is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 4 January 2021

January 4, 2021 LocEditor 0 Comments

Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two still ranks #2 on two lists. Note there is no Publishers Weekly issue this week.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 December 2020

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V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue returns to several lists this week.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 21 December 2020

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Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two is #1 on three print lists.

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Locus Bestsellers, December 2020

December 16, 2020November 23, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Dune by Frank Herbert, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 14 December 2020

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Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two remains #1 on two print lists, and in the top 10 on two others.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 7 December 2020

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Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two (Ballantine) debuts very impressively, ranking #1 on three print lists compiled here, and #2 on the fourth (behind Barack Obama).

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Weekly Bestsellers, 30 November 2020

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Brandon Sanderson’s Rhythm of War (Tor) debuts impressively, ranking #1 or #2 on the four print lists compiled here.
Note that J.K. Rowling’s The Ickabog is ranked by NYT on its Middle Grade Hardcover list, rather than its Young Adult Hardcover list, which is usually the only NYT children’s list compiled here.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 23 November 2020

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J.K. Rowling’s The Ickabog (Scholastic) debuts on two print lists this week.

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Locus Bestsellers, November 2020

November 18, 2020October 27, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor), and Forgotten Realms: Relentless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).

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Weekly Bestsellers, 16 November 2020

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Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Grand Central) reaches #1 on the L.A. Times fiction paperback list. Meanwhile, V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue again ranks on all four print lists this week.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 9 November 2020

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V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue remains in the top 10 on two lists this week.

Note: The USA Today list found last week on the 5th turns out to be this week’s list, not last week’s; thus all its rankings on this page are equal to the previous page’s. ...Read More

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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 November 2020

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Terry Brooks’ The Last Druid (Del Rey) and Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner) debut on two lists each, as does a special “MinaLima” edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

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Locus Bestsellers, October 2020

October 21, 2020September 29, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for October include top titles Peace Talks by Jim Butcher (Ace), The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US), and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey).

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Weekly Bestsellers, 19 October 2020

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V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Tor) debuts strongly on three lists. Novels by Alice Hoffman, Dean Koontz, and Megan Whalen Turner also debut.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 12 October 2020

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Jim Butcher’s latest Dresden Files novel, Battle Ground (Ace), debuts at #2 on three print lists. Novels by Matt Haig and Naomi Novik also debut.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 5 October 2020

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Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (Bloomsbury) hits #1 on the Los Angeles Times list.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 28 September 2020

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Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Tor) and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (Bloomsbury) debut strongly this week.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 21 September 2020

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Trade paperback editions of novels by Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, and Cixin Liu dominate lists this week.

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Locus Bestsellers, September 2020

September 16, 2020August 27, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for September include top titles The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Dune by Frank Herbert, The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer, and Star Wars: Queen’s Peril by E.K. Johnston.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 14 September 2020

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A new Star Wars novel by Timothy Zahn, Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (Del Rey) debuts on three lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 7 September 2020

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YA anthology Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (Disney Lucasfilm), with stories by Lou Anders, Rebecca Roanhorse, Yoon Ha Lee, and others, ranks this week on the Publishers Weekly list.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 31 August 2020

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic reaches #1 on the L.A. Times list; Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country ranks on two lists in trade paperback.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 24 August 2020

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic rises a couple notches on three lists, in its 7th week on the charts.

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Locus Bestsellers, August 2020

August 19, 2020July 30, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for August include top titles The City We Became and The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 17 August 2020

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Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth (Tor.com) and Laurell K. Hamilton’s Sucker Punch (Berkley) each debut on three lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 10 August 2020

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic returns to three lists after dropping off a couple weeks ago.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 3 August 2020

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Lindsay Ellis’ debut novel Axiom’s End (St. Martin’s) debuts solidly on three lists.

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Weekly Bestsellers, 27 July 2020

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Jim Butcher’s Peace Talks (Ace) debuts strongly on four lists; David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue (Random House) also debuts.

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Locus Bestsellers, July 2020

July 22, 2020July 7, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

The Locus Bestsellers for July include top titles The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Dune by Frank Herbert, This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, and Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn.

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