Hardcover Fiction

by SenLinYu (Del Rey, ISBN: 9780593972700); Weeks on List: 1 "In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy--and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past."

by Dan Brown (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385546898); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 3 "The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do."

by Ian McEwan (Knopf, ISBN: 9780593804728); Weeks on List: 1 "From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. An October 2025 Indie Next Pick."

by Kiran Desai (Hogarth, ISBN: 9780307700155); Weeks on List: 1 "A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss. An October 2025 Indie Next Pick."

by Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham (Little, Brown and Company, ISBN: 9780316567855); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 2 "From #1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, and her daughter, Shelby Cunningham: the irresistible, deliciously scandalous story of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school."

by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books, ISBN: 9781982112820); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 21 "Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later. The #1 Indie Next Pick for May 2025."

by Ken Follett (Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781538772775); Weeks on List: 1 "From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge."

by Mona Awad (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, ISBN: 9781668059869); Weeks on List: 1 "The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse. An October 2025 Indie Next Pick."

by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, ISBN: 9780063021471); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 5 "Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul--perhaps at the cost of their own. The #1 Indie Next Pick for September 2025."

by Virginia Evans (Crown, ISBN: 9780593798430); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 7 "A woman tries to heal old wounds and make sense of the world the only way she knows how--through letters--in this charming, laugh out loud debut novel about a life fully lived. A May 2025 Indie Next Pick."