The New York Times: Fiction Bestsellers

The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Fiction" titles for 12/13/2025, fetched from The New York Times Books API.

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  • 1 (1). THE WIDOW, John Grisham (Doubleday)
    When Simon Latch, a lawyer in rural Virginia, is accused of murder, he goes in search of the real killer.
  • 2 (3). THE CORRESPONDENT, Virginia Evans (Crown)
    Letters from someone she used to know push Sybil Van Antwerp toward revisiting her past and finding a way to forgive.
  • 3 (5). 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.
  • 4 (4). 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.
  • 5 (2). BRIMSTONE, Callie Hart (Forever)
    The second book in the Fae & Alchemy series. To save those close to them, Saeris and Fisher face a new set of dangers.
  • 6 (6). PROJECT HAIL MARY, Andy Weir (Ballantine)
    Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.
  • 7 (8). ALCHEMISED, SenLinYu (Del Rey)
    After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
  • 8 (15). THEO OF GOLDEN, Allen Levi (Atria)
    A man travels to a small Southern town, where he purchases pencil drawings of local residents and exchanges them for stories.
  • 9 (-). MONA'S EYES, Thomas Schlesser (Europa)
    A 10-year-old who may get permanent vision loss is bolstered by her grandfather’s quest to bring beauty into her life; translated by Hildegarde Serle.
  • 10 (12). QUICKSILVER, Callie Hart (Forever)
    Saeris is transported to a dangerous land of ice and snow, where she must contend with a Fae warrior who has suspect agendas.
  • 11 (9). RETURN OF THE SPIDER, James Patterson (Little, Brown)
    The 34th book in the Alex Cross series. An enemy’s murder book suggests Cross may have made rookie mistakes years ago.
  • 12 (10). NASH FALLS, David Baldacci (Grand Central)
    A successful businessman’s life is turned upside down when he is recruited by the F.B.I. to stop a large money laundering scheme.
  • 13 (11). EXIT STRATEGY, Lee Child and Andrew Child (Bantam)
    The 30th book in the Jack Reacher series. Reacher’s interest is piqued when he finds a handwritten note in his pocket.
  • 14 (-). 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.
  • 15 (-). THE GOD OF THE WOODS, Liz Moore (Riverhead)
    When a 13-year-old girl disappears from an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, secrets kept by the Van Laar family emerge.