New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
July 16, 2023

1. The Five-Star Weekend
by Elin Hilderbrand

After a tragedy, a popular food blogger brings friends from distinct times in her life to spend a weekend in Nantucket.
2. Happy Place
by Emily Henry

A former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese

Three generations of a family living on South India's Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.
6. Palazzo
by Danielle Steel

Challenges arise when a young woman takes over her family's haute couture Italian leather brand and 400-year-old palazzo in Venice.
7. Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver

Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
8. Zero Days
by Ruth Ware

A security system tester must elude the police to find the person who killed her partner in marriage and in crime.
9. The Only One Left
by Riley Sager

In 1983, a mute woman confined to a wheelchair types out her side of the story about a family massacre to her home-health aide.
10. Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano

In an homage to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a young man's dark past resurfaces as he gets to know the family of his college sweetheart.
11. Cross Down
by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois

John Sampson seeks justice after Alex Cross gets injured.
12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin

Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
13. Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See

Tan Yunxian learns the pillars of Chinese medicine from her grandmother but is sent into an arranged marriage and pressured by her mother-in-law.
14. The First Ladies
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

The first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune work together for justice and equality.
15.  Identity
by Nora Roberts

After her roommate is killed by a con artist, a former Army brat builds a new life at her mother's home in Vermont.
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A version of this list appears in the July 16, 2023 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending July 1, 2023.
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