Best Bestsellers Books

Three boys from the Flats in East Buckingham, Boston. When they are eleven, Dave Boyle is pulled into a car by two men and held for four days. Twenty-five years later, Jimmy Marcus's daughter Katie is found murdered. Sean Devine, now a state police detective, investigates. Dave is a suspect.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is thrown back in time to the days of his youth, forced to take the place of his old mentor and train his younger self during one of the city's defining revolutionary moments.

Percy leads the defense of Olympus against Kronos's army as the Great Prophecy — the one that has shadowed his life since birth — finally comes true in a battle for the fate of the gods.

An English navigator is shipwrecked in feudal Japan in 1600 and drawn into the deadly rivalry between samurai lords competing for supreme power. One of the great historical novels of the twentieth century.

A young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets — until she finds a man who remembers her.

The surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results — focus on the ONE thing that makes everything else easier or unnecessary.

A spiritual guide that teaches how to free yourself from the tyranny of the thinking mind and discover the peace available only in the present moment.

A collection of parables set in ancient Babylon that deliver timeless financial wisdom through the story of a man who rises from slavery to become the city's wealthiest citizen.

FBI trainee Clarice Starling is sent to interview the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter — brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer — hoping to gain insight into a new killer called Buffalo Bill, who is making suits of human skin.

1986: the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes. The wives, widows, and liquidators speak to Alexievich about what they saw, what they lost, and what has never stopped. The firefighter's wife who held her husband's disintegrating hand. The child who grew up in the zone. The soldier who was told to bury the contaminated soil. The most moving of Alexievich's books.

Stephen Hawking's landmark exploration of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black holes, written for readers with no background in physics.

In Ford County, Mississippi, a Black father kills the two men who brutally raped his ten-year-old daughter — and the young lawyer Jake Brigance must defend him before a white jury in the Deep South.

A linked story collection following characters connected to the music industry — record executive Bennie Salazar and his assistant Sasha — across decades of time, using a different narrative voice, tense, and structural form in each chapter.

Three converging storylines — a desperate quest across a dying world, a brutal siege in the frozen North, and a city drowning in political corruption — deepen the First Law's devastating subversion of every fantasy trope it deploys.

A science journalist investigates the health implications of how we breathe — and finds that most people are doing it wrong, with significant consequences for their health.

Eilis Lacey, a young woman from Enniscorthy in County Wexford, emigrates to Brooklyn in the early 1950s. She builds a life, finds work, falls in love, and is called home by a family death — and faces a choice she cannot make without losing something she cannot replace.

Candide, raised on Pangloss's philosophy that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, is expelled from his castle and travels through earthquakes, Inquisitions, the Seven Years War, and El Dorado, finding nothing to support Pangloss's optimism. The sustained satirical assault on Leibnizian theodicy that made Voltaire famous.

Twin brothers born of a forbidden union in an Ethiopian mission hospital — Marion and Shiva Stone grow up as doctors in a country torn by revolution, their lives diverging and converging across two continents.

A retelling of David Copperfield transplanted to opioid-ravaged Appalachia, narrated by Damon 'Demon' Fields as he moves from poverty and foster care through addiction and hard-won survival.

A pioneering psychologist reveals the secret to outstanding achievement: not talent, but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance.

The eighth Discworld novel and first in the City Watch sub-series: a secret brotherhood summons a dragon to seize power in Ankh-Morpork, and the only thing standing between the city and a new dragon king is the most incompetent police force in fantasy history.

Seven pilgrims journey to the Time Tombs on the world of Hyperion, each telling their story before facing the Shrike — a creature of blades that moves backward through time — in a far-future Canterbury Tales structured around one of science fiction's most enduring mysteries.

Krakauer's firsthand account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers died during a single storm. One of the greatest adventure narratives ever written.

A billionaire's dinosaur theme park — built using ancient DNA extracted from prehistoric mosquitoes — collapses into chaos when the animals escape containment, in a gripping techno-thriller that is also a serious argument about the limits of human control over nature.