Best Fiction Books

A criminal psychotherapist becomes obsessed with uncovering why a famous painter shot her husband five times in the face and has not spoken a single word since.

A communist spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army narrates his journey from the fall of Saigon through Los Angeles exile to reeducation camp, examining what it means to be perpetually between worlds.

Set fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale, three women's testimonies reveal how Gilead began to crumble from within, led by the most unlikely of architects.

Four retirement village residents — including a former spy and a retired psychiatrist — meet weekly to solve cold cases, and find themselves entangled in a very live one.

A collective autobiography of twentieth-century France, told through the pronoun 'one' rather than 'I,' assembling a life from photographs, memories, and the shared experience of an entire generation.

A woman arrives in a small town to rescue her twin sister and ends up stranded there, falling into an unlikely arrangement with the town's most infuriating man while raising her niece.

A Ghanaian-American neuroscience PhD student at Stanford studies the science of addiction and depression while caring for her catatonic mother and processing the loss of her brother to an opioid overdose.

Four interlocking narratives circle the same story of a Gilded Age financier and his wife, each version revealing how wealth constructs, revises, and suppresses the truth.

Two North London families — one Bangladeshi, one English — collide across generations in a novel about race, identity, history, and the inheritance that binds us.

A romance novelist and a literary fiction author spend a summer as reluctant neighbors, challenge each other to write outside their genres, and fall unexpectedly in love.

Grace and Jack Angel appear to have the perfect marriage, but behind their elegant facade lies a nightmare of control, captivity, and carefully maintained appearances.

In the West African-inspired land of Orisha, a young maji must complete a sacred ritual to restore magic before a ruthless king destroys it forever.

In a future Chicago divided into five virtue-based factions, sixteen-year-old Tris Prior must choose where she belongs — and discovers she may not belong anywhere.

A woman left at the altar moves in with her ex-fiance's new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, and the two jilted parties discover they might be exactly what the other needs.

After a near-death experience, Chloe Brown makes a list of things she wants to do before she becomes too ill to do them, and finds an unlikely partner in her brooding building superintendent.

A sheltered homeschooled girl falls for the mysterious boy next door, only to discover their connection runs deeper and darker than either of them could have imagined.

A figure skater and a hockey player are forced to share ice rink practice time, and their rivalry gradually melts into something neither of them planned.

Violet Sorrengail returns to Basgiath War College for her second year, navigating deeper secrets, more dangerous enemies, and a relationship with Xaden Riorson that is tested by the truths they are both keeping.

A social-media-famous LA socialite is exiled to a small Pacific Northwest fishing town by her stepfather, where she falls for the town's gruff, widowed boat captain.

An Artificial Friend named Klara, powered by sunlight and possessed of extraordinary observational gifts, narrates her life alongside a sickly teenage girl and her mother in a near-future America.

Katniss Everdeen becomes the Mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol, as all-out war engulfs Panem and extracts a devastating personal cost.

Two Irish teenagers, a popular athlete and an awkward intellectual, begin an unlikely relationship that reshapes both of them across years of university life.

Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty — alter egos of Kerouac and Neal Cassady — drive back and forth across America in search of sensation, connection, and the meaning of the American road.

An ER doctor and a handyman from a small town have a perfect weekend together — and then have to figure out if real life can hold what they found.