New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
December 3, 2023

1. 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.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
2. Iron Flame
by Rebecca Yarros
The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail's next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
3. The Edge
by David Baldacci

The second book in the 6:20 Man series. Travis Devine investigates the murder of the C.I.A. operative Jenny Silkwell in rural Maine.
 
4. The Little Liar
by Mitch Albom
The actions of an 11-year-old boy help facilitate the delivery of Jewish residents, including his family, to Auschwitz.
 
5. The Exchange: After The Firm
by John Grisham
In a sequel to The Firm, Mitch McDeere, who is now a partner at the world's largest law firm, gets caught up in a sinister plot.
Print and eAudiobook available.
6. The Narrow Road Between Desires
by Patrick Rothfuss

Things go awry when Bast accepts a gift.
 
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
Secrets held by the residents of a dilapidated neighborhood come to life when a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
8. Resurrection Walk
by Michael Connelly
The seventh book in the Lincoln Lawyer series. Haller and Bosch team up to prove the innocence of a woman in prison for killing her husband.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
9. 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.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
10. The Secret
by Lee Child and Andrew Child
The 28th book in the Jack Reacher series. It's 1992 and Reacher looks into the cause of a string of mysterious deaths.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
11. Dirty Thirty
by Janet Evanovich
The 30th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Plum tracks a local jeweler's former security guard and has an overnight stakeout with relatives.
Print and eAudiobook available.
12. System Collapse
by Martha Wells

The seventh book in the Murderbot Diaries series. The Barish-Estranza corporation might take a colony of humans to use as a free workforce.
 
13. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
by Megan Fox

A collection of poems exploring how love relationships can affect one's sense of identity.
 
14. Holly
by Stephen King

The private detective Holly Gibney investigates whether a married pair of octogenarian academics had anything to do with Bonnie Dahl's disappearance.
 
15. 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.
Print, eBook, and eAudiobook available.
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A version of this list appears in the December 3, 2023 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending November 18, 2023.
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