NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction

1) The Tenant

Author

Mcfadden, Freida

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#1 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Fired abruptly from his job and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, Blake Porter is desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange...

2) One golden summer

Author

Fortune, Carley

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#2 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's grandmother says, and it's true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen--it's where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she's most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately, though, she's been itching for something...

3) Remarkably bright creatures

Author

Van Pelt, Shelby

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#3 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son. For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...

4) The housemaid

Author

McFadden, Freida

Notes

#5 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 107 week(s).

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"'Welcome to the family,' Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole...

5) A court of thorns and roses

Author

Maas, Sarah J

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#7 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 57 week(s).

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"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"-- Provided by publisher.

6) The crash

Author

McFadden, Freida

Notes

#8 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 15 week(s).

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"Tegan is eight months pregnant and her world is crashing down around her. The father of her baby wants nothing to do with her and has promised to make her life hell. She's lost her job at the convenience store. And she has no idea what she's going to do to take care of little one. In a last ditch effort to find help and get away from the threats of her ex, Tegan heads out in a storm to drive to her brother's. But she never arrives. Tegan wakes in...

7) The nightingale

Author

Hannah, Kristin

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#9 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah's next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden"-- Provided by publisher.

8) The boyfriend

Author

McFadden, Freida

Notes

#10 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 27 week(s).

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"Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and a doctor. Then the brutal murder of a young woman--the latest in a string of deaths across the coast--confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them. Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams....

9) The housemaid's secret

Author

McFadden, Freida

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#11 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 51 week(s).

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"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...

10) Empyrean: 01 :Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

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#13 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 32 week(s).

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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....

11) Funny story

Author

Henry, Emily

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#14 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...

12) Verity

Author

Hoover, Colleen

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#15 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 155 week(s).

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"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get started. Lowen uncovers an unfinished...