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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

62 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 under the new vice commandant might require her to betray the man she loves.

2

28 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.

3

49 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.

4

New this week

Four Ruined Realms

by Mai Corland

Red Tower

The second book in the Broken Blades series. Trust is tested in the pursuit of the Golden Ring of the Dragon Lord.

5

New this week

Never Say Never

by Danielle Steel

Delacorte

A woman reeling from her husband’s infidelity and the loss of her job meets a well-known actor in the French countryside.

6

26 weeks on the list

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.

7

New this week

Holmes is Missing

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

Little, Brown

The second book in the Holmes, Margaret & Poe series. A series of child abductions perplexes the private investigators.

8

11 weeks on the list

The Wedding People

by Alison Espach

Holt

A woman who is down on her luck forms an unexpected bond with the bride at a wedding in Rhode Island.

9

79 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.

10

14 weeks on the list

Intermezzo

by Sally Rooney

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

After the passing of their father, seemingly different brothers engage in relationships and seek ways to cope.

11

19 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.

12

New this week

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

by Emma Knight

Pamela Dorman

A student at the University of Edinburgh falls in love and uncovers her divorced parents’ secret.

13

New this week

The Stolen Queen

by Fiona Davis

Dutton

When a valuable artifact goes missing during the Met Gala in 1978, a curator must confront demons from her past in Egypt.

14

59 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.

15

16 weeks on the list

Counting Miracles

by Nicholas Sparks

Random House

A man in search of the father he never knew encounters a single mom and rumors circulate of the nearby appearance of a white deer.