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 Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending February 17, 2019.

1. Fire & Blood
George R.R. Martin, Doug Wheatley (Illus.), Bantam, $35, 9781524796280

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

3. Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James, Riverhead, $30, 9780735220171

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

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

6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719

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

8. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

9. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716

10. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16, 9780804190138

11. Artemis
Andy Weir, Broadway, $16, 9780553448146

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

13. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $17, 9780143119685

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

15. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018
N.K. Jemisin, John Joseph Adams (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9781328834560

16. The Passage
Justin Cronin, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780525618744

17. How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $26, 9780316491341

18. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

19. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983

20. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green, Dutton, $26, 9781524743444

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

22. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $16, 9780804172448

23. Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer, MCD/FSG, $14, 9780374537159

24. The City of Brass
S.A. Chakraborty, Harper Voyager, $16.99, 9780062678119

25. The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229265