Best Fiction Books

Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between Los Angeles courthouses. When a wealthy Beverly Hills client hires him to fight a serious assault charge, Haller begins to suspect the man is guilty of something far worse — and that he has defended it before.

Stevens, an aging English butler, takes a motoring trip through the English countryside and reflects on a lifetime of dedicated service — and the opportunities for love and meaning he declined in its name.

Patroclus, the unassuming son of a minor Greek king, tells the story of his life alongside Achilles — the most beautiful and most doomed of Greek heroes — and the love between them.

The second Neapolitan novel follows Lila into her disastrous marriage and Elena through her university entrance exams and early years of higher education, as their friendship navigates the widening gap of their diverging lives.

American expatriates and British socialites drink their way through Paris and Pamplona, orbiting around the love that Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley cannot consummate.

A secret military project during China's Cultural Revolution makes contact with an alien civilization, setting in motion events that will determine the fate of humanity.

Anthony Bridgerton, London's most notorious rake, decides to marry for convenience — but falls helplessly in love with his intended's sharp-tongued, fiercely protective sister, Kate Sharma.

An abandoned girl raises herself in the marshes of North Carolina and becomes the prime suspect when a local man is found dead.

A monolith of alien origin guides humanity from its ape origins to a journey beyond Jupiter in this landmark novel written alongside Kubrick's film.

In 1949, sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole rides into Mexico with his friend Rawlins, seeking the last of the old West and finding love, violence, and the end of innocence.

Newlyweds Roy and Celestial have their lives torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit, forcing both to navigate love, loyalty, and identity across years of unjust separation.

In a brutal Roman Empire-inspired world, a Scholar girl goes undercover as a spy in the empire's most elite military academy while a soldier is tested to become the next Emperor.

A Chinese orphan is brought to Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation in 1830s England, where the silver-working magic that powers the British Empire depends on the loss inherent in translation.

Three mothers in an Australian coastal community navigate school politics, marriage, friendship, and the fallout from a murder at the kindergarten trivia night.

When the US government launches a covert military operation against Colombian drug cartels, Deputy National Security Advisor Jack Ryan uncovers a political conspiracy to disavow the soldiers involved — leaving them to die in the jungle rather than admit the mission existed.

When the Pope dies suddenly, the College of Cardinals gathers in the Sistine Chapel to elect his successor. Behind the locked doors of the Vatican, Dean of the College Cardinal Lomeli presides over a conclave of intrigue, ambition, and hidden sin — where faith and politics are indistinguishable.

A fictional oral history of one of the greatest rock bands of the 1970s, told through interviews with band members years after their legendary breakup.

In post-nuclear San Francisco, bounty hunter Rick Deckard hunts down rogue androids nearly indistinguishable from humans — the basis for the film Blade Runner.

A profoundly isolated young woman in Glasgow navigates her rigidly structured life while concealing a devastating past and slowly, almost accidentally, discovering what connection feels like.

The thirty-year friendship between Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey — from their teenage years on Firefly Lane through marriages, children, careers, and a devastating betrayal.

Half-Fae Bryce Quinlan must team up with a Hunt to solve her best friend's murder in a modern city where ancient magic meets contemporary life.

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar navigate the aftermath of the Gate explosion while uncovering a rebel network that links their world to Maas's wider universe in a shocking crossover finale.

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit in a small Georgia town and uncovers a massive counterfeiting conspiracy that cost his brother his life.

A veteran orc mercenary retires from a life of violence to open the first coffee shop in a fantasy city, navigating the challenges of small business, unlikely friendships, and unexpected romance.