The Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending February 23, 2020.
 

1. The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385541213

2. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese, $28.95, 9780385543781

3. The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006

4. Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang, Knopf, $25.95, 9781101947883

5. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229296

6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719

7. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $16, 9780307744432

8. Agency
William Gibson, Berkley, $28, 9781101986936

9. Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman, Norton, $15.95, 9780393356182

10. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

11. Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer, MCD, $27, 9780374276805

12. Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780735220188

13. The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien, Alan Lee (Illus.), Mariner, $16.99, 9780358131458

14. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Tor, $16.99, 9780765382030

15. The Andromeda Evolution
Michael Crichton, Daniel H. Wilson, Harper, $29.99, 9780062473271

16. Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir, Tor.com, $25.99, 9781250313195

17. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741

18. Blood of Elves
Andrzej Sapkowski, Orbit, $16.99, 9780316438988

19. The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski, Orbit, $16.99, 9780316438964

20. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow, Redhook, $27, 9780316421997

21. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182

22. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, S&S, $15.99, 9781451673319

23. Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
Nina MacLaughlin, FSG Originals, $16, 9780374538583

24. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555977887

25. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9781328604378