by John Grisham (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385548984); Weeks on List: 1 "#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 SenLinYu (Del Rey, ISBN: 9780593972700); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 5 "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 Dan Brown (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385546898); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 7 "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 Lily King (Grove Press, ISBN: 9780802165176); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 4 "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 Mitch Albom (Harper, ISBN: 9780062406682); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 3 "What if you got to do everything in your life--twice? The heart of Mitch Albom's newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we've had all along."

by Virginia Evans (Crown, ISBN: 9780593798430); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: 11 "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 Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books, ISBN: 9780593653258); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 4 "The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix."

by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, ISBN: 9780063446243); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 9 "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 Ian McEwan (Knopf, ISBN: 9780593804728); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 5 "From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. An October 2025 Indie Next Pick."

by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9781594206108); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 3 "Undeniably one of the most brilliant and influential writers of our time, Thomas Pynchon's novels have made enormous impact on American fiction as we know it. In his new novel, he brings his characteristic humor, erudition, originality, and surprise to the page, and vaults us back in time to his creation of a past world."