Paperback Fiction

by Sally Rooney (Hogarth, ISBN: 9781984822185); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 14 "Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship."

by Celeste Ng (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143135166); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 10 "A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of a picture-perfect family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Now a Hulu original series."

by Richard Powers (Norton, ISBN: 9780393356687); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: * "National Book Award-winner Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world."

by Madeline Miller (Back Bay, ISBN: 9780316556323); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 6 "Miller's masterful follow-up to The Song of Achilles is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world."

by Amor Towles (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143110439); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: * "Towles' transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel."

by Heather Morris (Harper, ISBN: 9780062797155); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: * "A testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. A September 2018 Indie Next List Great Read."

by Emily Henry (Berkley, ISBN: 9781984806734); Weeks on List: 1 "Henry's novel about a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut is a June 2020 Indie Next List Great Read."

by Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead Books, ISBN: 9781594634741); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 7 "Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other."

by Julia Phillips (Vintage, ISBN: 9780525436225); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 7 "This powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before."

by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine, ISBN: 9781524798642); Last week: 14; Weeks on List: 16 "A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup."