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NYT Fiction Bestsellers October 2026 |
Many of these books are on our Bestsellers Shelves or available as eBooks Call us to hold available copies: 415.789.2661 |
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Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo After Alex Stern returns from the underworld, demons begin preying on New Haven, leaving her and her allies to search Yale’s secret societies for a way to close the gates of hell, even as a corrupt Lethe Board, a vampire and Darlington’s dangerous new powers complicate their efforts.
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Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult After losing her mother on September 11, Molly Fitzgerald grows up to lead Rhode Island’s emergency preparedness agency, but when an unforeseen crisis unsettles her marriage to a police polygraph expert, their carefully ordered lives give way to questions about family, memory and the stories they tell themselves.
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The Thoroughbreds by Elin Hilderbrand As senior year begins at Tiffin Academy, college applications and parties compete with strained friendships, a troubled romance and questions about an email sent before a student’s death, while the head of school faces a financial mistake that could threaten her job and the New England boarding school itself.
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Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel In Los Angeles after the collapse of the United States, Ari Waker attends a party where a stranger resembling the host appears and the host vanishes, drawing her into a mystery that reaches from Greece to the moon and raises questions about surveillance, safety and identity.
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The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, eleven‑year‑old Meg Lefleur, long resigned to life as an “unadoptable” orphan after her mother vanished, meets Birdie, whose interest hints at a different future, while Birdie’s chance encounter with Charlie - a woman worn down by grief yet not quite defeated - pulls all three into the orbit of a gritty circle of local women whose small acts of loyalty and resistance risk harsh punishment in a town ruled by piety and double standards.
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We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery by Richard Osman When a body bearing a threatening note turns up at an Italian villa, Amy, Rosie and Steve take their first case together, but their client’s reluctance to involve the police and a growing list of suspects send the trio across Europe and toward danger closer to home.
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The Pirate Queenby Ariel Lawhon In sixteenth-century Ireland, Grace O’Malley longs to command her clan’s ships, but family obligations force her into an unwanted marriage; after betrayal returns her to the sea, she builds a following and defends her people against England’s growing influence in this novel inspired by her life.
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Yesteryearby Caro Claire Burke A social media–savvy homemaking influencer accustomed to marketing a curated “pioneer” life suddenly awakens in a harsh 1805 farmstead, where wood‑burning stoves, hard labor and unrecognizable children force her to question whether she is trapped in time travel, a sadistic reality show or a test of faith and womanhood.
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Whistler by Ann Patchett When middle‑aged Daphne Fuller and her husband spot an older man shadowing them through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the encounter reveals him as the former stepfather she has not seen since a childhood turning point, and their unexpected reunion prompts both to revisit the brief but defining bond they shared, the choices and losses that shaped their lives and the quiet ways love and being truly known can endure across decades.
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The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig With Aisling Cathedral in ruins and Sybil Delling captive as King Benji’s bride, tournaments across Traum strengthen his rule until an unknown competitor with no memory emerges, offering Sybil a possible ally in her effort to break the king’s power and challenge the kingdom’s faith.
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman On the fourth level of Dungeon Crawler World, Carl and Princess Donut enter the Iron Tangle - an impossible knot of monster-filled trains and shifting stations - where making the coveted top ten list brings dangerous bounties, uneasy alliances and a floor-spanning puzzle that may only be unraveled by a strange book - if they can decide whom to trust long enough to reach the exit.
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Big Little Truthsby Liane Moriarty Ten years after their children started kindergarten, Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata and Bonnie face new family strains as their teenagers enter high school, where a threatening package and a stranger’s questions force the women to consider what they have told their children about the past.
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