NYT - Hardcover Fiction

New York Times - Hardcover Fiction

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Book cover for Swan song.
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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet....
Book cover for Eruption.
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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the US military is far more terrifying than any volcano.
Book cover for The women.
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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).
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"Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
Book cover for Camino ghosts.
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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed......
Book cover for You like it darker.
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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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""You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
Book cover for Funny story.
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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).
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"Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan,...
Book cover for Fourth wing.
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Empyrean volume 1.
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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 58 week(s).
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....
Book cover for Iron flame.
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Empyrean volume 2.
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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 32 week(s).
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
Book cover for The wren in the Holly Library.
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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"Some things aren't supposed to exist outside of our imagination. Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse's world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight. In the wake of that carnage, the Monster Treaty was created. A truce...of sorts. But tonight, Kierse--a gifted and fearless thief--will break that treaty. She'll enter the Holly Library...not...
Book cover for The rom-commers.
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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies--good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates--The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!--it's...
Book cover for James.
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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).
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"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Book cover for The ashes & the star-cursed king.
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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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A prisoner in her own kingdom, Oraya, grieving the only family she ever had, realizes she cannot trust anyone until Raihn, a Turned king, offers her a secret alliance that is her only chance at reclaiming her kingdom and exacting revenge on the love who betrayed her.
Book cover for Horror movie.
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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film's scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played "The Thin Kid" is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets...
Book cover for A calamity of souls.
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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants. When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...

15. Clete

Book cover for Clete.
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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"Clete Purcel--private investigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots--is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete picks up his car from the local car wash, only to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade, it feels personal--his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold...