Hardcover Fiction

by Percival Everett (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385550369); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 5 "Percival Everett's new novel is a brilliant, action-packed re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. The #1 Indie Next Pick for April 2024."

by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9781250178633); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 11 "The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm's way to help others."

by Amor Towles (Viking, ISBN: 9780593296370); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 3 "From Amor Towles, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories, including a novella featuring one of his most beloved characters. An April 2024 Indie Next Pick."

by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books, ISBN: 9781250884251); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 2 "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. An April 2024 Indie Next Pick."

by James McBride (Riverhead Books, ISBN: 9780593422946); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 37 "Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. An August 2023 Indie Next Pick."

by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco, ISBN: 9780063204157); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: * "A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. A May 2022 Indie Next Pick."

by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books, ISBN: 9781649374042); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 48 "Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from bestselling author Rebecca Yarros."

by Tana French (Viking, ISBN: 9780593493434); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 7 "Tana French's new novel is a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we'll do for our loved ones, what we'll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. A March 2024 Indie Next Pick."

by Daniel Mason (Random House, ISBN: 9780593597033); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: 26 "When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An October 2023 Indie Next List Pick."

by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books, ISBN: 9781649374172); Last week: 11; Weeks on List: 24 "She's survived her first year at Basgiath War College for dragon riders...but the danger is just beginning in the electrifying follow-up to Fourth Wing."