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NYTimes Best Sellers: Hardcover Fiction

Authoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States.

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Data provided by The New York Times

1

2 weeks on the list

Funny Story

by Emily Henry

Berkley

After their exes run off together, Daphne and Miles form a friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos.

2

13 weeks on the list

The Women

by Kristin Hannah

St. Martin's

In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.

3

New this week

Home is Where the Bodies Are

by Jeneva Rose

Blackstone

Three estranged siblings find evidence of a dark secret involving their absent father and recently deceased mother.

4

New this week

Only the Brave

by Danielle Steel

Delacorte

In World War II Germany, Sophia Alexander joins the resistance and faces several kinds of loss of family members.

5

52 weeks on the list

Fourth Wing

by Rebecca Yarros

Red Tower

Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.

6

3 weeks on the list

A Calamity of Souls

by David Baldacci

Grand Central

Lawyers from different backgrounds represent a Black man charged with killing a wealthy white couple in Virginia in 1968.

7

26 weeks on the list

Iron Flame

by Rebecca Yarros

Red Tower

The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.

8

5 weeks on the list

Table for Two

by Amor Towles

Viking

A collection of six short stories based in New York City around the year 2000 and a novella set during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

9

New this week

Real Americans

by Rachel Khong

Knopf

Three generations of a Chinese American family deal with race, class and secrets.

10

4 weeks on the list

The Familiar

by Leigh Bardugo

Flatiron

Luzia Cotado encounters dangers when her magic draws the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king.

11

49 weeks on the list

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shel Van Pelt

Ecco

A widow working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium is aided in solving a mystery by a giant Pacific octopus living there.

12

37 weeks on the list

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride

Riverhead

Secrets held by the residents of a dilapidated neighborhood come to life when a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well.

13

7 weeks on the list

James

by Percival Everett

Doubleday

A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” shines a different light on Mark Twain's classic, revealing new facets of the character of Jim.

14

4 weeks on the list

Toxic Prey

by John Sandford

Putnam

The 34th book in the Prey series. Letty and Lucas must find an expert on tropical and infectious diseases before a virus becomes weaponized.

15

13 weeks on the list

House of Flame and Shadow

by Sarah J. Maas

Bloomsbury

The third book in the Crescent City series. Bryce wants to return home while Hunt is trapped in Asteri's dungeons.