I’ve been busy doing the Wizard’s Tower accounts for December and I thought it might be interesting to take a look at business in the bookstore over the year. Which books were you actually buying? Well, six books in particular stood out. (I’ve left out our own books because they are obviously going to sell well.)

In sixth place is Lori Selke & Djibril al-Ayad’s anthology of stories about the future of identity, Outlaw Bodies.

Equal fourth were Aliette de Bodard’s Hugo- and Nebula-nominated novella, On A Red Station Drifting, and a brand new book, Desirina Boskovich’s anthology of Finnish fiction, It Came from The North.

In third place is the only other book from The Future Fire, Fabio Fernandes & Djibril al-Ayad’s anthology of post-colonial SF, We See A Different Frontier. Gardner Dozois was waxing lyrical about this one in the January Locus.

Second, on the back of a successful promotional campaign, is Tansy Rayner Roberts’ award-winning debut novel, Splashdance Silver. I hope everyone who bought it comes back for the other two books in the series.

And at number one is the magnificent collection by Karin Tidbeck, Jagannath.

It will probably come as no surprise that the publisher who did most business for us in 2013 was Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s Cheeky Frawg. Thanks for putting out such great books, folks.

Second and third places in the publisher stakes go to Prime Books and Aqueduct Press respectively. While they didn’t have any stand-out titles, they have an awful lot of very good books. Do check them out.