New York Times
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
July 20, 2025

1. Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In the summer of 1980, Joan Goodwin begins training with a group of candidates for NASA's space shuttle program. 
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
2. Edge of Honor
by Brad Thor

The 24th book in the Scot Harvath series. Harvath goes after a cabal of shadowy elites.
3. Never Flinch
by Stephen King
Holly Gibney does double duty by helping head off acts of retribution and protecting a women's rights activist.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
4. Tusk Love
by Thea Guanzon

The romance developing between the daughter of a merchant and a half-orc may change the course of their lives
 
5. A Forbidden Alchemy
by Stacey McEwan
As war looms, Nina Harrow must make a fate-altering choice between a Craftsman and an Artisan.
 
6. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V.E. Schwab
Stories set in Santo Domingo de la Calzada in 1532, London in 1827 and Boston in 2019 explore hunger, love and rage.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
7. Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
A writer looking for her big break competes against a Pulitzer winner to tell the story of an octogenarian with a storied past.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
8. My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
A young woman looks into the story behind a painting that was made 25 years ago and a small group of teens depicted in it; translated by Neil Smith.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
9. Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros
The third book in the Empyrean series. As enemies gain traction, Violet Sorrengail goes beyond the Aretian wards in search of allies.
 Print, eBook, eAudiobook available.
10. Don't Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
A man with dark secrets in his past may cause trouble for three women who did not heed the warning about him.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available,
11. The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

When President Wright's husband goes on trial for murder, a pair of journalists search for answers.
 
12. The Knight and the Moth
by Rachel Gillig
Sybil Delling, who is gifted with the power of foresight, forms an alliance with a heretical knight when her sister Diviners disappear.
 Print and eAudiobook available.
13. Broken Country
by Clare Leslie Hall
Beth must confront her past when the man she once loved as a teenager returns to the village with his son.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available. 
14. The Wedding People
by Alison Espach
A woman who is down on her luck forms an unexpected bond with the bride at a wedding in Rhode Island.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
15. A Mother's Love
by Danielle Steel
After her handbag is stolen during a trip to Paris, a best-selling author with a traumatic past determines not to be a victim.
Print and eAudiobook available.
 
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A version of this list appears in the July 20, 2025 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending July 5, 2025.
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