The New York Times: Fiction Bestsellers

The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Fiction" titles for 10/04/2025, fetched from The New York Times Books API.

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  • 1 (-). THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE, Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)
    The fifth book in the Thursday Murder Club series. The gang look into the disappearance of a guest Elizabeth met at a wedding.
  • 2 (3). THE SECRET OF SECRETS, Dan Brown (Doubleday)
    As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, Robert Langdon discovers something regarding a secret project.
  • 3 (1). ALCHEMISED, SenLinYu (Del Rey)
    After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
  • 4 (-). FOURTH WING, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower)
    Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
  • 5 (-). VINCE FLYNN: DENIED ACCESS, Don Bentley (Atria/Emily Bestler)
    The 24th book in the Mitch Rapp series. Rapp, now an assassin in the Orion program, must counter threats to his girlfriend and the C.I.A.
  • 6 (-). IRON FLAME, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower)
    The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training under the new vice commandant might require her to betray the man she loves.
  • 7 (-). THE PORTRAIT, Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
    Unfulfilled longing is released between an entrepreneur stuck in a loveless marriage and a widowed portrait artist.
  • 8 (-). SOUL SEARCHING, Lyla Sage (Dial)
    Ghosts bring together an unemployed woman, who returns to Wyoming to help her parents, and an upholsterer, who rents a room to her.
  • 9 (6). THE ACADEMY, Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham (Little, Brown)
    Harmful rumors cause trouble for the students and staff at a New England boarding school.
  • 10 (-). BURNING DAYLIGHT, Emily McIntire (Bloom)
    A forbidden love grows between Juliette Calloway and Roman Montgomery in a retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
  • 11 (-). THE KILLING STONES, Ann Cleeves (Minotaur)
    Detective Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of his friend, who appears to have been killed with an artifact taken from a nearby museum.
  • 12 (13). THE HOUSEMAID, Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
    Troubles surface when a woman looking to make a fresh start takes a job in the home of the Winchesters.
  • 13 (4). CIRCLE OF DAYS, Ken Follett (Grand Central)
    A priestess envisions a great stone circle put together by divided tribes, but drought and violence may impede its creation.
  • 14 (-). THE GIRL FROM DEVIL'S LAKE, J.A. Jance (Morrow)
    The 21st book in the Joanna Brady mystery series.
  • 15 (5). TOURIST SEASON, Brynne Weaver (Slowburn)
    When a true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage in search of a serial killer, a local gardener and a handsome tourist pause their deadly ways.