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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

22 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.

2

4 weeks on the list

Swan Song

by Elin Hilderbrand

Little, Brown

Nantucket residents are alarmed when a home, recently sold at an exorbitant price, goes up in flames and someone goes missing.

3

New this week

The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore

Riverhead

When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, secrets kept by the Van Laar family emerge.

4

5 weeks on the list

Eruption

by Michael Crichton and James Patterson

Little, Brown

The Big Island of Hawaii comes under threat by a volcano at the same time a secret held by the military comes to light.

5

6 weeks on the list

Camino Ghosts

by John Grisham

Doubleday

The third book in the Camino series. The last living inhabitant of a deserted island gets in the way of a resort developer.

6

61 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.

7

11 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.

8

7 weeks on the list

You Like It Darker

by Stephen King

Scribner

A dozen short stories that explore darkness in literal and metaphorical forms.

9

2 weeks on the list

All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker

Crown

Questions arise when a boy saves the daughter of a wealthy family amid a string of disappearances in a Missouri town in 1975.

10

35 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.

11

3 weeks on the list

The Midnight Feast

by Lucy Foley

Morrow

An opening night party turns deadly at a luxury resort located near an ancient forest.

12

New this week

The Night Ends with Fire

by K.X. Song

Ace

The Three Kingdoms are at war and Meilin disguises herself as a boy and enlists in the army in her father’s place.

13

3 weeks on the list

Middle of the Night

by Riley Sager

Dutton

Thirty years after the disappearance of his friend, Ethan returns to his childhood home and encounters unsettling experiences.

14

12 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.

15

3 weeks on the list

Sandwich

by Catherine Newman

Harper

During a summer vacation in Cape Cod, Rocky faces changes with her family, body and life.