The New York Times: Fiction Bestsellers

The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Fiction" titles for 08/16/2025, fetched from The New York Times Books API.

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  • 1 (-). WE ARE ALL GUILTY HERE, Karin Slaughter (Morrow)
    Officer Emmy Clifton investigates the disappearance of two teenage girls from a small town called North Falls.
  • 2 (-). FOR RICHER FOR POORER, Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
    As pressures mount, Eugenia Ward, a fashion designer and mother of five adult children, meets a successful real estate developer.
  • 3 (4). 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.
  • 4 (3). ATMOSPHERE, Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
    In the summer of 1980, Joan Goodwin begins training with a group of candidates for NASA’s space shuttle program.
  • 5 (1). ACCOMPLICE TO THE VILLAIN, Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Red Tower)
    The third book in the Assistant and the Villain series. Evie Sage might be falling for the kingdom’s most terrifying villain.
  • 6 (6). MY FRIENDS, Fredrik Backman (Atria)
    A young woman looks into the story behind a painting that was made 25 years ago and a small group of teens depicted in it; translated by Neil Smith.
  • 7 (-). KISS HER GOODBYE, Lisa Gardner (Grand Central)
    The fourth book in the Frankie Elkin series. The missing persons expert Elkin goes to Tucson in search of a missing Afghan refugee.
  • 8 (8). ONYX STORM, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower)
    The third book in the Empyrean series. As enemies gain traction, Violet Sorrengail goes beyond the Aretian wards in search of allies.
  • 9 (7). ONE GOLDEN SUMMER, Carley Fortune (Berkley)
    A photographer returns to a place where she spent a summer as a teenager and runs into the guy she had a crush on back then.
  • 10 (9). THE NIGHTINGALE, Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's)
    Two sisters are separated in World War II France: one in the countryside, the other in Paris.
  • 11 (11). LIGHTS OUT, Navessa Allen (Slowburn)
    As Aly and Josh live out their dark fantasies, someone with sinister intentions impinges on them.
  • 12 (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.
  • 13 (10). REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
    A widow working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium is aided in solving a mystery by a giant Pacific octopus living there.
  • 14 (-). DO NOT DISTURB, Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
    Quinn Alexander goes on the run after committing a crime and winds up at a motel with a dark past.
  • 15 (15). 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.