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NYT Fiction Bestsellers May 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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Yesteryearby Caro Claire Burke A social‑media–savvy homemaking influencer accustomed to marketing a curated “pioneer” life suddenly wakes 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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The Correspondent by Virginia EvansThrough this epistolary novel, readers see how Sybil, now in the winter of her life at seventy-three, has always made sense of the world through writing letters, coming to terms with her past and present in order to learn forgiveness.
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Hope Rises by David Baldacci On the run and working under an alias, a former FBI informant charts a dangerous path of revenge against a ruthless crime boss who has destroyed his life, using his lethal training to infiltrate her inner circle while grappling with unexpected fascination for her and the possibility that the truth he uncovers could either redeem or destroy him.
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A blacksmith’s apprentice orphaned by a goddess’s fury enters a deadly competition to claim one of the realm’s great swords, crossing into a dangerous land of immortals and ancient creatures, where her quest for vengeance forces uneasy alliances, buried family secrets and the chance that the magic she seeks may destroy the world she is trying to save. |
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Mad Mabel by Sally HepworthAn eighty-one-year-old Melbourne widow with a secretive past and a sharp tongue finds her quiet life unsettled after a neighbor’s death brings police, gossip and an inquisitive child to her door, forcing her to confront the old case that still shadows her name.
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Rites of the Starling: A Slow-Burn Epic Romantasy by Devney Perry A young woman separated from the man she loves must cross a crumbling, monster‑haunted realm to protect a child and uncover the truth about her family, learning that the roles she is expected to play - a queen, a spy or a sacrifice - may all be masks for a courage she has yet to claim.
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The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Susan Patterson Reuniting at Lake Como after years of late‑night texting in place of real meetings, four old college friends and their daughters balance sightseeing and tentative holiday romance with their book club’s traditional “night of secrets”, where old rivalries, fresh doubts and long‑kept confidences rise to the surface.
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Paradox by Douglas Preston When a hermit is discovered brutally killed in the Colorado backcountry, a state agent and a small‑town sheriff follow a trail of ritualistic deaths, strange financial dealings and a secretive cult, all while watching for the re-emergence of the vanished Neanderthals whose next move may upend everything they think they are investigating.
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A split‑second choice at a concert sends a woman home with one man while the other, his best friend, quietly watches her from the sidelines, until years later, when they are still tangled in a shared life of dog walks, books and small rituals, he is forced to decide whether to speak up and risk everyone’s comfort or stay in the shadows where wanting her feels both inevitable and forbidden. |
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The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer Drawn by a too-good-to-ignore ad for a three‑day caretaking job on the remote Oregon coast, a broke young woman agrees to watch a stranger’s house, only to find herself trapped in an isolated property where strange rules, unsettling signs and an encroaching presence suggest she may be the last barrier between something ancient and the wider world.
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Judge Stone by James Patterson In a small Alabama town where she is both farmer and jurist, a seasoned local judge confronts the most divisive case of her career, weighing an apparently straightforward criminal charge against deeply conflicting moral questions and life-or-death stakes, as pressure from neighbors, politicians and her own conscience forces her to decide what justice should look like for the community she’s sworn to serve.
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Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt DinnimanIn the next installment of this inventive sci‑fi adventure, Coast Guard veteran Carl and his sharp‑tongued feline companion Princess Donut battle through the perilous levels of an alien‑made dungeon, where quests grow more complex, danger multiplies with every floor and survival demands equal measures of courage, wit and the strange camaraderie born of a world turned into a galactic game.
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Go Gentle by Maria Semple A Stoic‑minded New Yorker who has built a tightly ordered life around philosophy, her daughter and a circle of like‑minded women finds that balance undone by a chance encounter, which pulls her into black‑market art deals, secret meetings and international entanglements, forcing her to confront a buried past and the desire for a life larger than the one she thought she wanted.
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