Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests. This week’s list of bestsellers is from Adventures in Crime and Space, 609-A W. Sixth.

1. The Widower’s Two-Step by Rick Riordan

2. The Last King of Texas by Rick Riordan

3. Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan

4. 1632 by Eric Flint

5. Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories by Neal Barrett Jr.

6. Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley Hall

7. Blind Waves by Steven Gould

8. Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones

9. Shroud of a Midnight Sun: An Inupiat Eskimo Mystery by Christopher Lane

10. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

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