Hardcover fiction
1. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The fates of two young people intersect and diverge across continents and years.
2. The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $38) Symbologist Robert Langdon takes on a mystery involving human consciousness.
3. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong letter writer reckons with a painful past.
4. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A woman reflects on a youthful love triangle and its consequences.
5. Flesh by David Szalay (Scribner: $29) A man’s life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances.
6. The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books: $30) The latest mystery in the Armand Gamache series.
7. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending love story about people and the words they leave behind.
8. The Widow by John Grisham (Doubleday: $32) A small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.
9. House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books: $28) A woman settles in a remote Polish village that teems with the stories of the living and the dead.
10. Katabasis by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager: $35) A dark academia fantasy about two rival graduate students’ descent into hell.
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Hardcover nonfiction
1. Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (Random House: $30) A new memoir from the legendary writer and artist.
2. A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books: $28) The true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea.
3. Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism by Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing: $13) A guide to channeling feline wisdom in the face of authoritarian nonsense.
4. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking: $35) An exploration of the most infamous stock market crash in history.
5. Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life: $27) Revisiting the world of “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.”
6. The Uncool by Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $35) The filmmaker recounts his experiences as a teenage music journalist.
7. Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A takedown of Christian hypocrisy and a call for compassion.
8. Something From Nothing by Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter: $38) More than 100 recipes that make the most of a well-stocked pantry.
9. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $20) A deep dive into the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence.
10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf: $28) Reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
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Paperback fiction
1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine: $22)
2. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Vintage: $19)
3. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $19)
4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (Picador: $17)
5. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage: $18)
6. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)
7. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks: $18)
8. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books: $19)
9. Isola by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press Trade Paperback: $19)
10. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20)
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Paperback nonfiction
1. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)
2. Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell (Penguin Books: $22)
3. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster: $20)
4. The Best American Essays 2025 by Jia Tolentino and Kim Dana Kupperman (editors) (Mariner Books: $19)
5. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions: $22)
6. Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch (Tarcher: $20)
7. The Wager by David Grann (Vintage: $21)
8. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $18)
9. Fight Oligarchy by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Crown: $15)
10. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Modern Library: $11)
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