New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
January 29, 2023

1. Hell Bent
by Leigh Bardugo

The second book in the Alex Stern series. Alex risks her future at Lethe and Yale to get Darlington out of purgatory.
2. The House of Wolves
by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

After her father is murdered, Jenny Wolf becomes the head of a powerful family in California.
3. Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus

A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin

Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
5. The House in the Pines
by Ana Reyes

Seven years after witnessing her best friend drop dead, May returns to her Berkshires hometown to piece together what happened.
6. Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver

A reimagining of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
7. The Boys from Biloxi
by John Grisham

Two childhood friends follow in their fathers' footsteps, which puts them on opposite sides of the law.
8. Fairy Tale
by Stephen King

A high school kid inherits a shed that is a portal to another world where good and evil are at war.
9. Without a Trace
by Danielle Steel

Charles Vincent meets someone who ignites his passion and must decide whether to walk away from his perfect-from-the-outside life.
10. Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

After returning to her hometown, Olivia McAfee's son gets accused of killing his crush.
11. Just the Nicest Couple
by Mary Kubica

Nina Hayes searches for her missing husband while a couple close to her cover their tracks.
12. The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
13. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
by R. F. Kuang

In 1828, Robin Swift studies at Oxford University's Royal Institute of Translation and faces a choice when Britain pursues a war with China.
14. Horse
by Geraldine Brooks

The story of a racehorse, an enslaved groom and an itinerant painter reverberates in three different eras.
15. Trust
by Hernán Díaz

Competing narratives about a wealthy New York couple have new revelations over the course of a century.
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A version of this list appears in the January 29, 2023 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending January 14, 2023.
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