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NYT Fiction Bestsellers September 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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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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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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Delusional: A Michael Bennett Thriller by James Patterson After deadly bombings strike New York and weapons vanish from a nearby military base, Detective Michael Bennett and former Army sniper Rob Trilling join an ATF investigation in Montana, where arson and escalating violence suggest a network of anti-government extremists operating across state lines.
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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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God's Country by William Kent Krueger While preparing for a family trip into Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, Cork O’Connor searches for his missing friend and uncovers evidence of violence, drawing him into conflict with two brothers pursuing their late father’s hidden fortune and forcing him to weigh loyalty, danger and justice.
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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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The Unknown by Riley SagerCast in a film about five mediums who vanished from a Vermont island in 1926, struggling actor Marin Keane joins a research trip there; when a medical emergency strands the group and people begin disappearing, she searches an old diary for answers.
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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi When a stranger begins buying pencil portraits from a coffeehouse wall in a small southern city, he gives each drawing to its subject in exchange for a personal story, prompting residents of Golden to share private histories and reconsider their connections to one another.
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Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth When a neighbor dies in her Melbourne suburb, eighty-one-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick - once known as Australia’s youngest convicted murderer - finds old questions resurfacing; with an inquisitive child next door and media attention mounting, she investigates while deciding whether to reveal the truth about her past.
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