Paperback Fiction

by Emily Henry (Berkley, ISBN: 9781984806758); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 11 "Henry's sparkling new novel will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. A May 2021 Indie Next Pick."

by Madeline Miller (Ecco, ISBN: 9780062060624); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 47 "Miller's monumental debut novel is an action-packed adventure and epic love story that brilliantly re-imagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad."

by Madeline Miller (Back Bay, ISBN: 9780316556323); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: * "The 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 Fredrik Backman (Washington Square Press, ISBN: 9781501160844); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 3 "An ingeniously constructed novel about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope--the things that save us, even in the most anxious times."

by Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage, ISBN: 9781984898876); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 10 "O'Farrell's novel is a luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten."

by Delia Owens (Putnam, ISBN: 9780735219106); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 17 "Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder."

by Louise Erdrich (Harper Perennial, ISBN: 9780062671196); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 12 "Erdrich's novel is based on the extraordinary life of her grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C."

by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books, ISBN: 9781250301703); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 12 "A gripping psychological thriller about a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive."

by Emily Henry (Berkley, ISBN: 9781984806734); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 22 "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 TJ Klune (Tor, ISBN: 9781250217318); Last week: 12; Weeks on List: 28 "Klune's novel is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place."