Hardcover Fiction

by Tana French (Viking, ISBN: 9780735224650); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 2 "In French's latest novel of suspense, a former Chicago police officer retreats to a bucolic Irish village and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets."

by John Grisham (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385545969); Weeks on List: 1 "Jake Brigance returns in John Grisham's most powerful courtroom drama yet."

by Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books, ISBN: 9780525536291); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 20 "Bennett's beautiful new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. A June 2020 Indie Next List Great Read."

by V. E. Schwab (Tor, ISBN: 9780765387561); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 2 "France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for October 2020."

by Fredrik Backman (Atria, ISBN: 9781501160837); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 6 "An ingeniously constructed novel about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope--the things that save us, even in the most anxious times. The #1 Indie Next List Great Read for September 2020."

by Rumaan Alam (Ecco, ISBN: 9780062667632); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 2 "A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. An October 2020 Indie Next List Great Read."

by Ken Follett (Viking, ISBN: 9780525954989); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 5 "Follett's thrilling and addictive new Kingsbridge novel is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth."

by Marilynne Robinson (FSG, ISBN: 9780374279301); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 3 "Pulitzer Prize-winner Robinson returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction."

by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf, ISBN: 9780525658184); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 7 "Gyasi's stunning follow-up to Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. A September 2020 Indie Next List Great Read."

by Louise Penny (Minotaur, ISBN: 9781250145239); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 7 "Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates a sinister plot in the City of Light."