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NYT Fiction Bestsellers April 2026
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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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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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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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Bloodlust by Sandra Brown Still haunted by his wife’s murder and fixated on the shadowy drug boss he blames, a driven detective forced into counseling finds unexpected understanding with the therapist trying to steady him, even as his pursuit of two elusive criminals, her connection to the case and the pull between them push professional boundaries and draw both into escalating danger.
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My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney On the morning of her first big art show, Eden Fox returns to her new seaside home to find her key useless, a look‑alike woman answering the door, and her husband insisting she is the stranger, while months earlier, Birdy, newly diagnosed and heir to the same house, uncovers a clinic that predicts death dates, drawing both women into a twisting mystery of identity, secrets and second chances.
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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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Kinby Tayari Jones Growing up as inseparable, motherless girls in a small Louisiana town, one taken in by a determined aunt and propelled into the world of an elite Atlanta college, the other driven by a longing to find the mother who left her behind and pulled into danger, love and hard-won resilience, two women are brought back into each other’s lives by sudden tragedy when they must reckon with family, loyalty and the different paths that shaped them.
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Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman In plague‑ravaged 1348, a disgraced knight who has lost faith agrees to escort a strangely self‑possessed orphan girl through a devastated France to Avignon, only to learn that she believes the Black Death is just one front in a renewed war between heaven and the legions of Lucifer, a journey that forces him across blighted villages and haunted battlefields toward a reckoning with evil and his own chance at redemption.
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The Widow by John Grisham Simon Latch, a struggling lawyer in rural Virginia, takes on Eleanor Barnett, a widow with hidden wealth, but when her circumstances unravel and she is hospitalized, Simon is accused of murder; to prove his innocence and avoid prison, he must uncover the truth and identify the real killer.
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Alchemised by SenlinyuHelena Marino, once an alchemist and now a prisoner with missing memories, is forced to confront necromancers and corrupt guilds in a war-torn world, while the High Reeve seeks the secrets hidden in her past, leaving her to fight for survival and uncover whether her forgotten history holds the key to resisting destruction.
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The Crossroads by C. J. Box After Marybeth Pickett learns her husband has been found shot in his truck at a lonely Wyoming crossroads where three hostile ranch families meet, their daughters fan out to question each household with a grudge, following separate, increasingly perilous leads in hopes of uncovering who ambushed the local game warden - and why - before the gunman can finish the job.
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