NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bestseller List for August 4, 2024
THE WOMEN
Kristin Hannah
St. Martin's
9781250178633
1-250-17863-0
In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE
Deborah Harkness
Ballantine
9780593724774
0-593-72477-1
The fifth book in the All Souls series. Diana faces her family’s dark past and determines to forge a different future.
SWAN SONG
Elin Hilderbrand
Little, Brown
9780316258876
0-316-25887-3
Nantucket residents are alarmed when a home, recently sold at an exorbitant price, goes up in flames and someone goes missing.
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.
ERUPTION
Michael Crichton and James Patterson
Little, Brown
9780316565073
0-316-56507-5
The Big Island of Hawaii comes under threat by a volcano at the same time a secret held by the military comes to light.
IRON FLAME
Rebecca Yarros
Red Tower
9781649374172
1-64937-417-8
The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.
A DEATH IN CORNWALL
Daniel Silva
Harper
9780063384200
0-06-338420-5
The 24th book in the Gabriel Allon series. Gabriel forges six impressionist canvases and enlists an unlikely team of operatives to go after a new foe.
THE GOD OF THE WOODS
Liz Moore
Riverhead
9780593418918
0-593-41891-3
When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, secrets kept by the Van Laar family emerge.
YOU LIKE IT DARKER
Stephen King
Scribner
9781668037713
1-66803-771-8
A dozen short stories that explore darkness in literal and metaphorical forms.
CAMINO GHOSTS
John Grisham
Doubleday
9780385545990
0-385-54599-1
The third book in the Camino series. The last living inhabitant of a deserted island gets in the way of a resort developer.
THE SUMMER PACT
Emily Giffin
Ballantine
9780593600290
0-593-60029-0
Ten years after a tragedy close to graduation, Hannah and her college friends grapple with turning points in their lives.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
Shel Van Pelt
Ecco
9780063204157
0-06-320415-0
A widow working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium is aided in solving a mystery by a giant Pacific octopus living there.
SANDWICH
Catherine Newman
Harper
9780063345164
0-06-334516-1
During a summer vacation in Cape Cod, Rocky faces changes with her family, body and life.
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK
Chris Whitaker
Crown
9780593798874
0-593-79887-2
Questions arise when a boy saves the daughter of a wealthy family amid a string of disappearances in a Missouri town in 1975.
FUNNY STORY
Emily Henry
Berkley
9780593441282
0-593-44128-1
After their exes run off together, Daphne and Miles form a friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos.