Best Fiction Books

A high school teacher travels back to 1958 through a time portal with a mission to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Five kings war over the Iron Throne as supernatural threats gather beyond the Wall, and Tyrion Lannister arrives in King's Landing to impose order on a kingdom descending into chaos.

American ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with English nurse Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the Italian front in World War I — a love story that the war will not leave intact.

A grumpy, recently widowed Swedish man who has given up on life encounters a series of intrusive neighbors who accidentally give him reasons to stay.

John Wheelwright narrates his extraordinary friendship with Owen Meany — a tiny, certain-voiced boy who believes he is God's instrument — and the event that will prove him right.

A story of love, sacrifice, and revolution set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, moving between London and Paris on the eve of the Terror.

An imaginative, red-haired orphan is accidentally sent to Avonlea instead of the boy the Cuthbert siblings expected — and changes their lives and the whole town forever.

The daughter of Helios discovers within herself the power of witchcraft and spends millennia on her island exile developing her craft and encountering the heroes and monsters of Greek myth.

Clary and Jace travel to Idris, the Shadowhunters' hidden homeland, where Valentine seeks the power to destroy all Downworlders — and a revelation about Clary's true identity changes everything she thought she knew.

As the King's Champion, Celaena Sardothien is supposed to eliminate his enemies — but she has been secretly protecting her targets while uncovering shocking truths about her own identity and the darkness at the heart of Adarlan's power.

In a future where firemen burn books rather than extinguish fires, Guy Montag begins to question the society he enforces — and the books he has been trained to destroy.

Victor Frankenstein's obsessive creation of life — and his abandonment of the creature he brings into being — with consequences that pursue them both to the ends of the earth.

A reimagining of the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet and its impact on the women of his household, told through Agnes (Anne Hathaway) and the loss that may have inspired Hamlet.

Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts is shadowed by a mysterious voice in the walls and a series of petrifications tied to the legend of a Chamber of Secrets. When the Heir of Slytherin opens the Chamber again, Harry must confront a darkness rooted in the wizarding world's oldest prejudices.

Celaena travels to the fae kingdom of Wendlyn to master her powers, while a new threat — the Valg, demonic beings from another world — descends on Adarlan with the King's devastating backing.

A retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man, revealing what Twain's classic looks like when its silent center finally speaks.

A Black woman in 1970s California is repeatedly pulled back in time to antebellum Maryland, where she must keep a white slaveholder alive to ensure her own existence.

A brilliant chemist in 1960s California is sidelined by sexism and single motherhood until she accidentally becomes the host of a cooking show — and treats it as applied chemistry and women's liberation.

A group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island organise themselves — and gradually descend from democratic order to murderous tribalism.

Hercule Poirot is stranded on the snowbound Orient Express when a fellow passenger is murdered — and soon discovers that every suspect has an alibi and none of them can be trusted.

Two itinerant ranch workers in Depression-era California — the clever George and the big, gentle Lennie — share a dream of their own land that the world will not allow them to reach.

The third installment of The Empyrean series follows Violet Sorrengail and Xaden Riorson as they venture beyond the Aretia wards to discover what truly threatens their world.

A young miner from Mars's lowest caste disguises himself as one of the ruling class and infiltrates their elite military academy to bring down the society that enslaved his people.

The first volume completed by Brandon Sanderson from Robert Jordan's notes: Rand al'Thor approaches psychological breaking point as the Last Battle nears, while Egwene fights to reunite the fractured White Tower from within its walls.