Best Fiction Books

In the theocratic Republic of Gilead, women have been stripped of all rights and assigned to roles based on their fertility, one of whom narrates her life as a state-assigned Handmaid.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter witnesses the police shooting of her childhood friend Khalil — and must navigate the collision between her Black neighborhood and her predominantly white private school as she decides whether to speak up.

A caseworker for magical children is sent to evaluate a mysterious orphanage housing the most dangerous magical children in existence, where he finds something unexpected: a home.

Four generations of the Trueba family navigate love, power, magic, and political upheaval in an unnamed Latin American country, culminating in the military coup that destroys what they have built.

In the dystopian future of Panem, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister's place in a televised death match between children.

A privileged Afghan boy's act of betrayal against his loyal servant's son haunts him across decades and continents, from Kabul to California and back.

Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a wealthy village squire in what became the most controversial and celebrated mystery novel ever written.

Set in twelfth-century England, the novel follows the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge over decades of civil war, religious conflict, and human ambition.

A California scholarship student at a Vermont college is drawn into a group of elite Greek students who have committed a murder — the beginning of something far worse.

A recovering alcoholic writer takes a winter caretaker job at a remote Colorado hotel where the building's evil history begins to consume his sanity and endanger his family.

A superflu kills 99% of the human population, and the survivors are drawn into a final confrontation between the forces of good and evil across the ruins of America.

Kvothe continues his legendary life story, traveling to foreign courts and distant lands while attending the University and becoming the man of myth and music his world knows.

Two childhood friends become collaborators in an unlikely video game company that spans three decades and raises every question a creative partnership can ask about love, ambition, and what we make and why.

The tempestuous, obsessive love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across two generations on the wild Yorkshire moors.

Nesta Archeron and Cassian are trapped in a brutal training regimen together, slowly discovering that their mutual antagonism masks something much harder to fight.

Feyre returns to the Spring Court as a spy, and the war against Hybern that has been building since the first book finally arrives in a climax that reshapes Prythian.

The fifth installment of A Song of Ice and Fire follows Jon Snow at the Wall, Tyrion in exile, Daenerys ruling Meereen, and Stannis marching on Winterfell.

The most hated woman in Three Pines is found dead at the village curling match, electrocuted in a sealed outdoor space — and Chief Inspector Gamache discovers that almost everyone had reason to want her dead.

Pippa Fitz-Amobi reopens the supposedly closed case of Andie Bell's murder as her senior capstone project — and discovers the truth is far more dangerous than anyone expected.

Four college friends build lives in New York City over decades, but the story centers on Jude St. Francis, whose horrific childhood secrets gradually emerge.

A young Nigerian woman navigates love, identity, and race in America and Britain before returning to Lagos, where she must reconcile who she has become with who she was.

Stephen Wraysford's doomed love affair in pre-war France is followed by his experiences in the trenches of the Somme — and, decades later, by his granddaughter's attempt to understand what he survived.

After her defiant act in the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen finds herself the symbol of a brewing rebellion — and is forced back into the arena for an unprecedented Quarter Quell.

A girl discovers a secret door in her new home that leads to an Other world with an Other Mother who seems perfect — but wants to keep Coraline forever.