New York Times
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
April 6, 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. The Writer
by James Patterson and J.D. Barker

An N.Y.P.D. detective is called to a crime scene in an apartment where the shelves are full of books by a true-crime writer.
3. 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.
4. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones

A Lutheran pastor's diary from 1912, which details a massacre in which 217 Blackfeet died in the snow, is found a century later.
5. 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.
6. 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. 
7. The Women
by Kristin Hannah

A nurse follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. The Story She Left Behind
by Patti Callahan Henry

In 1952, the daughter of a renowned author who disappeared years ago goes in search of clues to better understand her mother's life and work.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
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A version of this list appears in the April 6, 2025 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending March 22, 2025.
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