Locus Bestsellers, May
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | The Martian, Andy Weir (Crown) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Like a Mighty Army, David Weber (Tor) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Red Rising, Pierce Brown (Ballantine Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 4) | The Undead Pool, Kim Harrison (Harper Voyager) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett (Random House/Doubleday) | 3 | 2 |
| 6) | The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins/Morrow) | 9 | 4 |
| 7) | Dreamwalker, C. S. Friedman (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 8) | Pandemic, Scott Sigler (Crown) | 2 | 7 |
| 9) | Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books) | 2 | 3 |
| 10) | Touch, Michelle Sagara (DAW) | 1 | – |
| PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Frost Burned, Patricia Briggs (Ace) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) | 43 | 9 |
| 4) | A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 44 | 4 |
| 5) | A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam) | 5 | 1 |
| *) | A Memory of Light, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (Tor) | 2 | 2 |
| 7) | A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 39 | 10 |
| 8) | Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) | 1 | – |
| 9) | A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) | 37 | – |
| 10) | The Long War, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter (Harper) | 1 | – |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books) | 4 | – |
| 3) | Black Dog, Rachel Neumeier (Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry Us) | 1 | – |
| 4) | Carousel Sun, Sharon Lee (Baen) | 1 | – |
| 5) | Indexing, Seanan McGuire (47North) | 1 | – |
| *) | The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Orion/Gollancz) | 1 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Star Trek Voyager: Protectors, Kirsten Beyer (Pocket) | 1 | – |
| 2) | Star Wars: Maul: Lockdown, Joe Schreiber (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, Anonymous, ed. (Puffin) | 2 | 4 |
| 4) | Star Wars: Scoundrels, Timothy Zahn (LucasBooks) | 4 | 3 |
| 5) | Alien: Out of the Shadows, Tim Lebbon (Titan) | 1 | – |
| GAMING-RELATED | |||
| 1) | Forgotten Realms: The Companions: The Sundering, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 6 | – |
| 2) | Warhammer 40,000: The Unremembered Empire, Dan Abnett (Black Library) | 1 | – |
| 3) | Halo: Mortal Dictata, Karen Traviss (Tor) | 2 | 3 |
| 4) | Forgotten Realms: Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book I, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 15 | – |
| 5) | Forgotten Realms: The Last Threshold: Neverwinter Saga, Book IV, R. A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast) | 5 | – |
The Martian by Andy Weir debuted at first place on the hardcover list, and David Weber’s Like A Mighty Army took second. The new runner-up was John Ringo’s To Sail a Darkling Sea (Baen) out of 47 titles nominated, down from 54 last month.
Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs took the number one spot, with Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch appearing as number two on the mass-market list this month. The new runner-up was Robert Asprin’s Dragons Wild (Ace) out of 57 titles nominated, up from last month’s 56.
Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation pushed into first on the trade paperback list this month. There is no new runner up, with 33 titles nominated, down from the 41 we saw last month.
Star Trek Voyager: Protectors by Kirsten Beyer made its debut at number one among the media-related titles, and the new runner-up was The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor by Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga (Dunne). There were 14 titles nominated, down quite a bit from 23 last month.
Forgotten Realms: The Companions by R.A. Salvatore placed at number one in the gaming-related titles, with no runners-up. There were 11 titles nominated, down from 19 last month.
Compiled with data from
Bakka-Phoenix Books (Canada),
Barnes & Noble (USA),
Borderlands (CA),
McNally Robinson (2 in Canada),
Mysterious Galaxy (CA),
Toadstool (2 in NH),
Uncle Hugo’s (MN),
White Dwarf (Canada).
Data period: February 2014.
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