Locus Bestsellers, June 2026

The Locus Bestsellers for November include top titles: Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey), Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine), and Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising by Dan Abnett (Black Library).

HARDCOVERS Months

on list Last

month

1) Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) 2 5

2) The Butcher’s Masquerade, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 2,

3) Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 3 2

4) The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 1,

*) The Gate of the Feral Gods, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 5 7

*) There Is No Antimemetics Division, qntm (Ballantine) 2 10

7) Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman (Nightfire) 1,

*) Nine Goblins, T. Kingfisher (Tordotcom) 1,

9) The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 3 9

10) The Wings That Bind, Briar Boleyn (Mira) 1,

TRADE PAPERBACKS

1) Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine) 17 2

2) Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman (Ace) 3 1

3) A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US) 44,

4) Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, Greer Stothers (Titan) 2 4

5) The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey) 11 5

6) Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US) 17,

*) Red Rising, Pierce Brown (Del Rey) 12 3

8) Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US) 14 6

9) Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) 4,

*) The Road of Bones, Demi Winters (Dell) 1,

MEDIA-RELATED AND GAMING RELATED

1) Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising, Dan Abnett (Black Library) 6,

2) Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus, Dan Abnett (Black Library) 5,

Cozy fantasy Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett moved up to the top of our hardcover list with a decisive lead over our second-place finisher, Matt Dinniman’s The Butcher’s Masquerade, the fifth book in his Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Our runner-up was The First Step by Tao Wong (Ace), the first book of twelve in the A Thousand Li series. There were 55 nominated titles, the same number as last month.

Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary reclaimed the top spot on our trade paperback list, followed closely by last month’s winner Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. There were no new runners-up. Fifty-five titles were nominated, down from last month’s 74.

On our media and gaming-related book list, only two books made our list. Both titles were by Dan Abnett, Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising came in first, followed by Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn: The Omnibus. There were no new runners-up. For the third month in a row, we had 22 nominated titles.

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: March 2026