NYT Hardcover 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.
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.
PAYBACK IN DEATH
J.D. Robb
St. Martin's
9781250284099
1-250-28409-0
The 57th book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas looks into the death of an internal affairs captain.
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 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.
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.
DEMON COPPERHEAD
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper
9780063251922
0-06-325192-2
Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
THE FRAUD
Zadie Smith
Penguin Press
9780525558965
0-525-55896-9
In 1873, a Scottish housekeeper to a once-famous novelist is captivated by a trial in which a lower-class butcher from Australia claims to be the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title.
THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
James McBride
Riverhead
9780593422946
0-593-42294-5
Secrets held by the residents of a dilapidated neighborhood come to life when a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well.
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.
TOM CLANCY: WEAPONS GRADE
Don Bentley
Putnam
9780593422816
0-593-42281-3
Jack Ryan Jr. witnesses a professional hit and gets caught up in the cold case of a college student who vanished.
THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE
Craig Johnson
Viking
9780593297315
0-593-29731-8
The 19th book in the Longmire series. A rifle connected to a cold case once belonged to Walt’s grandfather.
LOOK OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY!
Scott Lang with Rob Kutner
Hyperion Avenue
9781368090131
1-368-09013-3
A fictional memoir that appears in the movie “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”
AMAZING GRACE ADAMS
Fran Littlewood
Holt
9781250857019
1-250-85701-5
A 45-year-old woman determines to remind others of how they once perceived her.
THE BREAKAWAY
Jennifer Weiner
Atria
9781668033425
1-66803-342-9
As her wedding to a man she met at a childhood weight-loss camp approaches, Abby goes on a cycling trip to Niagara Falls in a group that includes an old fling.