New York Times
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
June 22, 2025

1. Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid

In the summer of 1980, Joan Goodwin begins training with a group of candidates for NASA's space shuttle program. 
2. The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

When President Wright's husband goes on trial for murder, a pair of journalists search for answers.
3. Never Flinch
by Stephen King

Holly Gibney does double duty by helping head off acts of retribution and protecting a women's rights activist.
4. Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry

A writer looking for her big break competes against a Pulitzer winner to tell the story of an octogenarian with a storied past.
5. Nightshade
by Michael Connelly

The Los Angeles County sheriff's detective Stilwell gets reassigned to Catalina Island, where he investigates a poaching case and a Jane Doe found in the harbor.
6. Badlands
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

The fifth book in the Nora Kelly series. The discovery of a pair of skeletons sparks an investigation that runs into a dark power.
7. The Knight and the Moth
by Rachel Gillig

Sybil Delling, who is gifted with the power of foresight, forms an alliance with a heretical knight when her sister Diviners disappear.
8. Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts

After recovering from a gunshot, a Natural Resources police officer investigates a woman's disappearance.
9. My Friends
by Fredrik Backman

A young woman looks into the story behind a painting that was made 25 years ago and a small group of teens depicted in it; translated by Neil Smith.
10. The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong

A young man becomes the caretaker of an elderly widow and they form a bond over the course of a year.
11. Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros

The third book in the Empyrean series. As enemies gain traction, Violet Sorrengail goes beyond the Aretian wards in search of allies.
12. The Perfect Divorce
by Jeneva Rose

Around the time of the disappearance of a woman who had a one-night stand with the attorney Sarah Morgan's new husband, police reopen the investigation into the murder of her first husband's mistress.
13. The Ghostwriter
by Julie Clark

The daughter of a horror novelist, who was rumored to have killed his siblings when he was a teen, ghostwrites his last book.
14. James
by Percival Everett

A reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shines a different light on Mark Twain's classic, revealing new facets of the character of Jim.
15. Broken Country
by Clare Leslie Hall

Beth must confront her past when the man she once loved as a teenager returns to the village with his son. 
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A version of this list appears in the June 22, 2025 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending June 7, 2025.
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