New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers October 6, 2024 1. The Butcher Game by Alaina Urquhart The second book in the Dr. Wren Muller series. A serial killer wants to settle a score with a forensic pathologist. 2. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman When a dead body and a bag of money turn up on a remote island, Amy Wheeler reaches out to her retired father-in-law to help investigate. 3. 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. 4. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty Passengers on a short and seemingly unremarkable flight learn how and when they are going to die. 5. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune The second book in the Cerulean Chronicles series. The headmaster of a strange orphanage seeks to protect the magical children who reside there. 6. The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen Gods enlist mortals to fight in their stead to determine who will sit on the throne in Olympus. 7. The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave Estranged siblings look into the death of their hotel magnate father and uncover a family secret.   8. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig A retired math teacher who inherits a run-down house on a Mediterranean island from a friend goes in search of answers. 9. 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. 10. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout As a murder casts a pall on a town in Maine, Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob Burgess share stories and seek meaning. 11. To Sir Phillip, With Love and When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn The third book in the Bridgerton Collector's Edition series. 12. 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. 13. By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult A young woman's play about her ancestor Emilia Bassano, who wrote Shakespeare's works, is submitted to a festival under a male pseudonym. 14. It's in His Kiss and On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn The fourth book in the Bridgerton Collector's Edition series. 15. 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. ©2024 All rights reserved by New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.   A version of this list appears in the October 6, 2024 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 21, 2024. Somerset County Library System of New Jersey1 Vogt Drive P.O. Box 6700 Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807 (908) 526-4016www.sclsnj.org/