Best Fiction Books

A microbiologist in near-future Ireland watches her country slide toward authoritarian rule as her family is torn apart, in a novel that won the 2023 Booker Prize.

A mother-daughter story of grief, betrayal, and rebuilding after a devastating family tragedy reshapes everything they thought they knew.

A human raised by Martians returns to Earth and, unable to comprehend human society, begins to transform it from within.

Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke of Hastings enter a fake courtship to mutual benefit — and discover that playing at love is a dangerous game when real feelings get involved.

A woman inherits a Chelsea townhouse on her twenty-fifth birthday and discovers a mystery inside: three dead bodies were found there when she was a baby, and the house holds secrets about the cult that destroyed two families.

A glamorous wedding on a remote Irish island turns deadly, and the assembled guests all have reason to wish the groom harm.

Millie Calloway returns as a housemaid in a new household where she suspects her employer is in danger — but the situation is far more complicated and deadly than it first appears.

An autistic econometrician hires a professional escort to help her practice intimacy, and the arrangement becomes something neither of them could have predicted.

A PhD student in biology impulsively kisses a notoriously intimidating professor to convince her friend she has moved on, and the resulting fake-dating arrangement becomes something neither of them expected.

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon watches from her personal heaven as her family grieves her murder and her killer walks free among them.

Molly Gray, a socially awkward hotel maid who finds order in cleanliness and routine, discovers a dead man in a suite she is cleaning and becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

Thomas wakes up in a box with no memory, arriving in a community of boys trapped inside a massive, deadly maze — and his arrival immediately begins changing everything they thought they knew.

A struggling novelist steals a dead student's book idea — a plot so good it guarantees a bestseller — only to find that someone knows exactly what he did.

A research scientist asks her infuriating American colleague to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding in Spain — and falls for him somewhere over the Atlantic.

A South Korean woman's decision to stop eating meat triggers a crisis that ripples through her family, her marriage, and her sense of self.

Sixteen-year-old Aza Holmes navigates the spiral of OCD and intrusive thoughts while investigating the disappearance of a billionaire and reconnecting with a childhood friend.

A sweet, optimistic photography student is placed in the care of her brother's best friend — a cold, dangerous man with secrets who finds her impossible to ignore.

A darkly twisting psychological thriller in which a struggling writer discovers a disturbing manuscript hidden in the home of a bestselling author.

Eva Khatchadourian writes letters to her estranged husband in the aftermath of their son Kevin's school massacre, examining her own culpability and the nature of maternal ambivalence.

Before Dorothy dropped in, the Wicked Witch of the West had a life. This is her story — a retelling of The Wizard of Oz from the perspective of Elphaba, a misunderstood girl whose emerald skin and sharp intelligence make her an outsider from birth.

A white female author steals the unfinished manuscript of her Chinese-American friend who has just died, publishes it as her own, and watches her carefully constructed lies unravel as the internet closes in.

A married couple whose relationship has been hollowed out by infertility struggles must decide whether their love is strong enough to survive the life they never planned.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon races through Rome to stop the Illuminati from destroying Vatican City with an antimatter bomb as a new Pope is being elected.

A young woman takes a job at an artist's studio and falls for the painter, not knowing that her anonymous confessions have been inspiring his artwork all along.