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NYT Fiction Bestsellers September 2024 |
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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By Any Other Nameby Jodi PicoultAcross the centuries, two women - Melina Green and Emilia Bassano - one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.
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The Women by Kristin HannahAfter hearing the words, “Women can be heroes, too,” nursing student Frankie McGrath impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1965, following her brother to Vietnam, where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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Spirit Crossingby William Kent KruegerAs a huge manhunt is launched to find a local politician's daughter, Cork O'Connor and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police uncover a connection to the missing teenager - one that places his own grandson in the crosshairs of a killer - when the body of a young Ojibwe woman is found.
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Fourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosAlthough hoping to enter the Scribe Quadrant, the bookish Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who is also her mother, to become one of the hundreds of candidates risking their lives to be a dragon rider - in the first novel of a new series.
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Iron Flame by Rebecca YarrosAfter surviving her first year at Basgiath War College, dragon rider Violet Sorrengail discovers that the real danger is just beginning - in the second novel of the series following Fourth Wing.
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The God of the Woods by Liz MooreIn 1975, when a camp counselor discovers the 13-year-old daughter of the summer camp's owners has disappeared just like her brother 14 years earlier, a panicked search begins - as the secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow are revealed.
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The Wedding Peopleby Alison EspachMistaken for a wedding guest while staying at the grand Cornwall Inn, Phoebe Stone is determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself when she unexpectedly becomes the bride's confidante and, through her, meets a cast of surprising characters who help her start anew after hitting rock bottom.
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This Is Why We Lied by Karin SlaughterWhile on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge's manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying - lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves.
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All the Colors of the Darkby Chris WhitakerAfter a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
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Jamesby Percival EverettIn this ingenious retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Everett swaps the narrator from Huck to a Black man who has mastered the art of minstrelsy to get what he needs from gullible white people. While many of the same things occur as in Twain's original, Jim's narration reveals how he employs "slave" talk when white people can hear in order to make them feel safe and superior.
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Remarkably Bright Creaturesby Shelby Van PeltAfter her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son Erik over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.
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