Hardcover Fiction

by Virginia Evans (Crown, ISBN: 9780593798430); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 16 "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."

by Lily King (Grove Press, ISBN: 9780802165176); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 9 "From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love. The #1 Indie Next Pick for October 2025."

by Dan Brown (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385546898); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 12 "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 SenLinYu (Del Rey, ISBN: 9780593972700); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 10 "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 R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, ISBN: 9780063446243); Weeks on List: 13 "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 Callie Hart (Forever, ISBN: 9781538774229); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 2 "This limited deluxe edition with metallic edges, gorgeous cover effects, designed endpapers, and a stamped foil case continues the epic story begun in runaway bestseller and global phenomenon Quicksilver."

by John Grisham (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385548984); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 6 "#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he's back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name."

by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9781250328175); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 5 "The 20th mystery in Louise Penny's bestselling Armand Gamache series."

by Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.) (Random House, ISBN: 9780593979419); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 2 "In this special collection of poems inspired by dogs, former US Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of our uplifting companions--featuring striking canine portraits in watercolors by Pamela Sztybel."

by Matt Dinniman (Ace, ISBN: 9780593820247); Weeks on List: 16 "Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman--now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition!"