Hardcover Fiction

by Delia Owens (Putnam, ISBN: 9780735219090); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: * "Owens' exquisite and heartbreaking novel is an August 2018 Indie Next List Great Read."

by Louise Penny (Minotaur, ISBN: 9781250066213); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 2 "A suspenseful new Chief Inspector Gamache novel by the bestselling author of Kingdom of the Blind."

by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385537070); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 8 "Whitehead's masterful and haunting new novel about two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for August 2019."

by Lara Prescott (Knopf, ISBN: 9780525656159); Weeks on List: 1 "Prescott's thrilling novel of love, duty, and sacrifice about secretaries turned spies, is a September 2019 Indie Next List Great Read."

by Madeline Miller (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316556347); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: * "Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is an April 2018 Indie Next List Great read."

by David Lagercrantz (Knopf, ISBN: 9780451494344); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 2 "Lisbeth Salander faces the most important battle of her life in the new thriller by the bestselling author of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye."

by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9780525562023); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 14 "Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The #1 Indie Next List Pick for June 2019."

by Tea Obreht (Random House, ISBN: 9780812992861); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 4 "Obreht's beautiful, ambitious new novel is an August 2019 Indie Next List Great Read."

by Richard Russo (Knopf, ISBN: 9781101947746); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 6 "Russo's riveting new novel about the abiding yet complex power of friendship is an August 2019 Indie Next List Great Read."

by William Kent Krueger (Atria, ISBN: 9781476749297); Weeks on List: 1 "Krueger's magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression is the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2019."