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Locus Bestsellers, August 2026
The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman (Ace), Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Ace), and Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus by Dan Abnett (Black Library).
| HARDCOVERS | Months on list |
Last month |
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| 1) | Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, Matt Dinniman (Ace) | 6 | 3 |
| 2) | The Gate of the Feral Gods, Matt Dinniman (Ace) | 7 | – |
| 3) | A Parade of Horribles, Matt Dinniman (Ace) | 2 | 2 |
| 4) | The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, Matt Dinniman (Ace) | 6 | 5 |
| 5) | Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman (Nightfire) | 4 | 6 |
| 6) | The Unicorn Hunters, Katherine Arden (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 7) | The Ballad of Falling Dragons, Sarah A. Parker (Avon) | 2 | 4 |
| *) | Platform Decay, Martha Wells (Tor) | 2 | 1 |
| *) | There Is No Antimemetics Division, qntm (Ballantine) | 3 | – |
| 10) | Radiant Star, Ann Leckie (Orbit US) | 2 | 7 |
| TRADE PAPERBACKS | |||
| 1) | Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman (Ace) | 6 | 2 |
| 2) | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 20 | 1 |
| 3) | The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor) | 2 | 5 |
| 4) | The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey) | 13 | – |
| 5) | The Martian, Andy Weir (Ballantine) | 24 | 10 |
| 6) | Bromantasy, Máire Roche (Putnam | 1 | – |
| *) | Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) | 47 | 6 |
| 8) | Assassin’s Apprentice, Robin Hobb (Del Rey) | 1 | – |
| 9) | Red Rising, Pierce Brown (Del Rey) | 15 | 3 |
| 10) | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) | 19 | – |
| MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED | |||
| 1) | Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus, Dan Abnett (Black Library) | 7 | – |
| 2) | Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising, Dan Abnett (Black Library) | 9 | 1 |
| 2) | Critical Role: Tusk Love, Thea Guanzon (Random House Worlds) | 7 | – |
Matt Dinniman had a very good June, with four books in his Dungeon Crawler Carl series taking the top four spots on our hardcover list. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario came in first, followed closely by The Gate of the Feral Gods. We Burned So Bright (Tor), TJ Klune’s new end-of-the-world standalone novel, was our first runner-up. There were 51 nominated titles, up from 45 last month.
Matt Dinniman continued his dominance on the trade paperback list with Dungeon Crawler Carl flipping last month’s order, and coming in first over Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, last month’s winner and this month’s second place. Our new runner-up was Sarah J. Maas’s Kingdom of Ash (Bloomsbury US), the seventh book in her Throne of Glass series. Seventy-two titles were nominated, up from last month’s 63.
Two books by Dan Abnett tied for first place on our media and gaming-related list, Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus and Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising. Critical Role: Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon come in a close second. There were no new runners-up. We had 20 titles nominated, up from 15 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: June 2026
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