NYT - Hardcover Fiction | Henry Carter Hull

1) You like it darker: stories

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King, Stephen

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#1 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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""You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...

2) The women

Author

Hannah, Kristin

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#2 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 16 week(s).

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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...

3) Mind Games

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Roberts, Nora

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#3 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Identity presents a suspenseful new novel of tragedy and trauma, love and family, and the blessings and curses of power.

4) Funny story

Author

Henry, Emily

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#5 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...

5) One perfect couple

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Ware, Ruth

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#6 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the...

6) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

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#7 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 55 week(s).

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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....

7) Iron flame

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

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#8 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....

8) Think Twice

Author

Coben, Harlan

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#9 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

9) Lies and Weddings

Author

Kwan, Kevin

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#13 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus's scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister's wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable...

10) A calamity of souls

Author

Baldacci, David

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#15 on the Hardcover Fiction list for 2024-06-09. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants. When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...