NYT Combined Print and E-Book Fiction

Bestseller List for September 24, 2023

HOLLY
Stephen King
Scribner
9781668016138
1-66801-613-3
The private detective Holly Gibney investigates whether a married pair of octogenarian academics had anything to do with Bonnie Dahl’s disappearance.
THINGS WE LEFT BEHIND
Lucy Score
Bloom
9781728276120
1-72827-612-8
The third book in the Knockemout series. A mogul and a small-town librarian share a dark secret from their past.
PAYBACK IN DEATH
J.D. Robb
St. Martin's
9781250284105
1-250-28410-4
The 57th book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas looks into the death of an internal affairs captain.
FOURTH WING
Rebecca Yarros
Red Tower
9781649374042
1-64937-404-6
Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
THE RIVER WE REMEMBER
William Kent Krueger
Atria
9781982179212
1-982179-21-X
Suspicions and accusations complicate a sheriff’s investigation of a wealthy landowner’s murder in a small Minnesota town in 1958.
TOM LAKE
Ann Patchett
Harper
9780063327528
0-06-332752-X
Three daughters, who return to their family orchard in the spring of 2020, learn about their mother’s relationship with a famous actor.
THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE
Craig Johnson
Viking
9780593297322
0-593-29732-6
The 19th book in the Longmire series. A rifle connected to a cold case once belonged to Walt’s grandfather.
TOM CLANCY: WEAPONS GRADE
Don Bentley
Putnam
9780593422823
0-593-42282-1
Jack Ryan Jr. witnesses a professional hit and gets caught up in the cold case of a college student who vanished.
THE HOUSEMAID
Freida McFadden
Grand Central
9781538742570
1-5387-4257-8
Troubles surface when a woman looking to make a fresh start takes a job in the home of the Winchesters.
ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN
Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Red Tower
9781649375803
1-64937-580-8
Evie Sage gets a job doing unspecified office duties for the most infamous villain in the kingdom of Rennedawn.
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
Bonnie Garmus
Doubleday
9780385547345
0-385-54734-X
A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
TOO LATE
Colleen Hoover
Grand Central
9781538756591
1-5387-5659-5
Dangers develop when a drug trafficker becomes obsessed with a woman who has a mutual attraction to a D.E.A. agent.
THE RAGING STORM
Ann Cleeves
Minotaur
9781250836786
1-250-83678-6
The third book in the Matthew Venn series. The investigation into the death of a sailor near Scully Cove turns up secrets and superstitions.
THE COVENANT OF WATER
Abraham Verghese
Grove
9780802162175
0-8021-6217-7
Three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.
CLIVE CUSSLER: CONDOR'S FURY
Graham Brown
Putnam
9780593543986
0-593-54398-X
The 20th book in the NUMA Files series. A distress call from a freighter leads to a plot to hijack a nuclear submarine.