Paperback Fiction

by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial, ISBN: 9780063251984); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 3 "Kingsolver's brilliant novel enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. A November 2022 Indie Next Pick and a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction."

by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN: 9781635575569); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: * "From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read."

by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage, ISBN: 9780593466490); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 12 "Two college friends--often in love, but never lovers--become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before."

by Paul Murray (Picador, ISBN: 9781250338259); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 2 "Murray's novel is an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart."

by Colleen Hoover (Atria, ISBN: 9781668055960); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: * "In Hoover's honest, evocative, and tender novel, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love."

by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions, ISBN: 9781609455064); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 13 "Through the lives of two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between the women."

by Stephen King (Scribner, ISBN: 9781668014943); Last week: 13; Weeks on List: 2 "Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town."

by Matt Haig (Penguin, ISBN: 9780525559498); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: * "Haig's book is a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived."

by Freida McFadden (Grand Central, ISBN: 9781538742570); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 14 "An addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist, Freida McFadden's The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity."

by Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.) (Vintage, ISBN: 9780593470619); Weeks on List: 1 "Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year."