Best Fiction Books

Twin sisters from a small Black town in Louisiana take radically divergent paths — one stays in the community, one passes as white — and their daughters' lives intersect decades later.

An assassin is released from the salt mines and offered her freedom in exchange for competing in a tournament to become the king's champion.

A series of linked narratives exploring the lives of scientists — from Fritz Haber to Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Grothendieck — whose discoveries changed the world in ways that may have exceeded human understanding.

A Beauty and the Beast retelling set in a dangerous fae world where a mortal huntress is dragged into an immortal court and must navigate deadly magic and forbidden love.

Meg Murry, her genius brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin travel through space and time using a tesseract to rescue Meg's father from an evil force controlling the universe.

The youngest Brown sister crashes into the uptight owner of a bed-and-breakfast and ends up as his cook — and his closest companion — while he recovers from the injury she caused.

Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on a school bell tower, both there for the same dark reason, and fall in love while completing a state geography project that keeps Finch anchored to life.

DC homicide detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross is called to investigate when a brilliant, media-obsessed killer kidnaps two children from a prestigious private school — drawing Cross into the most complex and personal case of his career.

In 1935, a thirteen-year-old girl's false accusation destroys two lives — and she spends the rest of hers trying to atone for it through the act of writing.

A hitman who only kills bad people takes one last job but finds himself entangled with an unexpected companion and a plot to destroy him.

A cutthroat literary agent keeps bumping into the same brooding editor during her summer in a small town, and their mutual irritation slowly transforms into something neither expected.

Tennis legend Carrie Soto comes out of retirement at 37 to protect her all-time Grand Slam record from being broken by the sport's rising star.

A telekinetic teenage girl pushed to the breaking point by her fanatical mother and bullying classmates unleashes catastrophic revenge on her entire town.

Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray discovers a secret world of Shadowhunters, demons, warlocks, and vampires hidden within New York City.

A middle-aged Danny Torrance, now a hospice worker battling alcoholism, must protect a young girl with extraordinary psychic powers from a tribe of psychic vampires.

In 1986 Omaha, two misfit teenagers fall in love over comic books and mix tapes on the school bus, in a beautiful, melancholy story about first love and the courage it takes to be seen.

A teenage boy inherits a shed that contains a portal to a dark fairy-tale kingdom, and must enter it to save a world he barely understands.

Twin sisters Cath and Wren arrive at college as inseparable unit — and Wren immediately tries to separate. Cath retreats into her beloved Simon Snow fan fiction while the real world crowds in.

A fantasy romance set in a war college for dragon riders, following a young woman who must survive her first year among the most dangerous cadets in the world.

On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne's wife Amy disappears, and the investigation reveals two people who may be nothing like who they claimed to be.

Dublin Murder Squad detective Rob Ryan investigates a child murder in the woods where, as a boy, he survived a mysterious incident that left his two friends vanished and his memory blank.

A powerful and emotionally resonant novel about a young woman navigating a complicated love story that forces her to confront cycles of abuse.

In an alternative Napoleonic England where magic was once commonplace, two very different magicians attempt to restore English magic — with dangerous and unforeseen consequences.

Miles Halter leaves home for Culver Creek boarding school in search of a 'Great Perhaps' and finds Alaska Young — dazzling, troubled, and unforgettable.