The New York Times: Fiction Bestsellers

The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Fiction" titles for 03/22/2025, fetched from The New York Times Books API.

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  • 1 (1). 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.
  • 2 (-). THE STRAWBERRY PATCH PANCAKE HOUSE, Laurie Gilmore (HarperCollins)
    The fourth book in the Dream Harbor series. A woman with a spotty work history becomes the live-in nanny for the daughter of a single dad.
  • 3 (-). THE WRITER, James Patterson and J.D. Barker (Little, Brown)
    An N.Y.P.D. detective is called to a crime scene in an apartment where the shelves are full of books by a true-crime writer.
  • 4 (3). 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 (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.
  • 6 (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 (8). THE NIGHTINGALE, Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's)
    Two sisters are separated in World War II France: one in the countryside, the other in Paris.
  • 8 (2). STORY OF MY LIFE, Lucy Score (Bloom)
    A romance writer suffering from writer’s block moves away from Manhattan and finds inspiration in Story Lake, Pa.
  • 9 (7). WARD D, Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
    Patients and staff at a hospital’s mental health unit begin to disappear.
  • 10 (4). BROKEN COUNTRY, Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster)
    Beth must confront her past when the man she once loved as a teenager returns to the village with his son.
  • 11 (9). THE CRASH, Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
    A pregnant woman, who suffers an injury during a blizzard, is taken in by a couple who might put her life in further jeopardy.
  • 12 (13). LIGHTS OUT, Navessa Allen (Slowburn)
    As Aly and Josh live out their dark fantasies, someone with sinister intentions impinges on them.
  • 13 (10). THE FROZEN RIVER, Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
    In Maine, 1789, a midwife seeks to uncover the true cause of the death of a man discovered entombed in the Kennebec River.
  • 14 (12). THE WEDDING PEOPLE, Alison Espach (Holt)
    A woman who is down on her luck forms an unexpected bond with the bride at a wedding in Rhode Island.
  • 15 (-). THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
    A Lutheran pastor’s diary from 1912, which details a massacre in which 217 Blackfeet died in the snow, is found a century later.