NYT - Hardcover Fiction

New York Times - Hardcover Fiction

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Book cover for "Onyx storm"
Star rating for Onyx storm
Series:
Empyrean volume 3.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
Description:
"After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit,...
Book cover for "Iron flame"
Star rating for Iron flame
Series:
Empyrean volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 65 week(s).
Description:
"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 night is defying"
Star rating for The night is defying
Series:
Nytefall volume 2.
Notes:
#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
Description:
"Shaken from the aftermath of the Libertatem, the newly found star-maiden Astraea is determined to keep her freedom, even at the cost of betraying her heart. But time is running out to recover her memories with the hope it will unveil her killer. Embarking on a journey to discover her past, Astraea's awakening power spins the hourglass on a history threatening to repeat itself. While Nyte tries to regain control of the vampires hungry for bloodshed,...
Book cover for "James"
Star rating for James
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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#4 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 31 week(s).
Description:
"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 women"
Star rating for The women
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 52 week(s).
Description:
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the...
Book cover for "Fourth wing"
Star rating for Fourth wing
Series:
Empyrean volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Notes:
#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 82 week(s).
Description:
"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 "The wedding people"
Star rating for The wedding people
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).
Description:
"It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband,...
Book cover for "The god of the woods"
Star rating for The god of the woods
Average Rating:
4 stars
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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).
Description:
"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...
Book cover for "Witchcraft for wayward girls"
Star rating for Witchcraft for wayward girls
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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
Description:
"Set in Florida in the 1970s, Grady Hendrix's newest novel follows five young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft"-- "They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened....
Book cover for "All the colors of the dark"
Star rating for All the colors of the dark
Average Rating:
5 stars
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#10 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).
Description:
"1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer....
Book cover for "Intermezzo"
Star rating for Intermezzo
Average Rating:
3 stars
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#11 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).
Description:
"An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring...
Book cover for "Remarkably bright creatures"
Star rating for Remarkably bright creatures
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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#12 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 62 week(s).
Description:
"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"-- After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...
Book cover for "Presumed guilty"
Star rating for Presumed guilty
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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
Description:
"Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that's taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea's young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn't return soon,...
Book cover for "Small things like these"
Star rating for Small things like these
Average Rating:
4 stars
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#14 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).
Description:
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. 0The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.0'[Claire Keegan] creates...
Book cover for "Counting miracles"
Star rating for Counting miracles
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Notes:
#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 18 week(s).
Description:
"From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change-or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down....