The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Fiction" titles for 10/03/2026, fetched from The New York Times Books API.

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• 1 (-). THRESHING DAY, Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower)
  Thirteen short stories, set in the Empyrean world, in which cadets compete to earn the bond of a dragon.
• 2 (-). THE FRENCH ILLUSION, John Grisham (Doubleday)
  When a couple is kidnapped during a honeymoon trip in the French countryside, a young lawyer is used as part of a C.I.A. operation.
• 3 (8). VERITY, Colleen Hoover (Grand Central)
  Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth; the basis of the movie.
• 4 (2). 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.
• 5 (5). THE CALAMITY CLUB, Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
  As things get tougher during the Depression, several women look for ways to improve their circumstances.
• 6 (7). THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS, Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
  A young professor agrees to pretend to be a third-year Ph.D. candidate’s boyfriend.
• 7 (-). AMERICAN HAGWON, Min Jin Lee (Cardinal)
  After a betrayal and a financial crisis, John and Helen Koh move with their three children from Korea to Australia to California in the 1990s.
• 8 (-). 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; the basis of the movie.
• 9 (1). HOLLYWOOD, ENDING, John Green (Dutton)
  Celebrity permeates lives onscreen and off for two rising stars appearing in the biopic “Andy Warhol Never Gets Old.”
• 10 (4). HOLLOW BONES, Jodi Picoult (Ballantine)
  A woman who runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness and her husband, who is a police polygraph expert, face a crisis in their marriage.
• 11 (10). DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Matt Dinniman (Ace)
  A Coast Guard vet named Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, are trapped in a fantasy dungeon.
• 12 (-). RUTHLESS, Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
  A senior editor at Vanity Fair interviews a high-tech billionaire and faces off against a shipping magnate in St. Barts.
• 13 (13). WHISTLER, Ann Patchett (Harper)
  Decades after their time together, a woman reconnects with her stepfather and they look back at the directions their lives have taken.
• 14 (14). YESTERYEAR, Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
  Natalie Heller Mills, a privileged tradwife social media influencer, wakes up to find she is living in the comparatively difficult reality of 1855.
• 15 (-). 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.