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Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
March 23, 2025

1. 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.
2. Iron Flame
by Rebecca Yarros

The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail's next round of training under the new vice commandant might require her to betray the man she loves.
3. 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. 
4. Far From Home
by Danielle Steel

A woman whose husband was killed after a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler hides out in Normandy under an assumed name.
5. Blood Moon
by Sandra Brown

The producer of a true crime TV series enlists the help of a detective to look into the disappearances of several teenage girls.
6. The Ragpicker King
by Cassandra Clare

The second book in the Chronicles of Castellane series. An underworld criminal holds clues to the massacre at the royal palace.
7. Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros

Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
8. Battle Mountain
by C.J. Box

The 25th book in the Joe Pickett series. Nate seeks vengeance while off the grid and Joe looks for the governor's missing son-in-law.
9. James
by Percival Everett

A reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shines a different light on Mark Twain's classic, revealing new facets of the character of Jim.
10. Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Nigerian travel writer living in America and several women connected to her face turning points in their lives.
11. The Women
by Kristin Hannah

In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
12. The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah

Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance in Paris.
13. The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore

When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, secrets kept by the Van Laar family emerge.
14. Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy

A woman washes ashore on a tiny island near Antarctica, where the only inhabitants are a man and his three children.
15. 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.
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A version of this list appears in the March 23, 2025 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending March 8, 2025.
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