Hardcover Fiction

by Amor Towles (Viking, ISBN: 9780735222359); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 2 "Towles' stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America is an October 2021 Indie Next Pick."

by Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9781982173678); Weeks on List: 1 "A unique and utterly compelling international thriller co-written by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th secretary of state, and multiple award-winning author, Louise Penny."

by Anthony Doerr (Scribner, ISBN: 9781982168438); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 3 "A beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship--of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. The #1 Indie Next Pick for October 2021."

by Jonathan Franzen (FSG, ISBN: 9780374181178); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 2 "Franzen's new novel is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis."

by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385545136); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 5 "A gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. A September 2021 Indie Next Pick."

by John le Carre (Viking, ISBN: 9780593490594); Weeks on List: 1 "In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself."

by Sally Rooney (FSG, ISBN: 9780374602604); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 6 "Rooney's excellent new novel is a September 2021 Indie Next Pick."

by Richard Powers (Norton, ISBN: 9780393881141); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 4 "The heartrending new novel by the bestselling author of The Overstory is an October 2021 Indie Next Pick."

by Matt Haig (Viking, ISBN: 9780525559474); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 50 "Haig's latest is a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived."

by Liane Moriarty (Holt, ISBN: 9781250220257); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 5 "Moriarty's new novel looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest."