Best Fiction Novels Of All Time - May 2024

It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

"It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you."Dan Brown, Author of ReunionIt's 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world.Everybody loves her.In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0578448831
• ASIN: 0578448831
• ISBN: 0578448831
• Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250153964
• ASIN: 1250153964
• ISBN: 9781250153968
• Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399563091
• ASIN: 0399563091
• ISBN: 0399563091
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501173219
• ASIN: 1501173219
• ISBN: 1501173219
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Then She Was Gone: A Novel

A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won’t see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted.” —Booklist, starred review “Sharply written with twists and turns, Jewell’s latest will please fans of Gon... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501154656
• ASIN: 1501154656
• ISBN: 1501154656
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Ordinary Grace

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the so... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451645856
• UPC: 884740901625
• ASIN: 1451645856
• ISBN: 1451645856
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

The Hideaway

In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it—no small task considering h... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestseller!Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more...  “I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting.” —Jodi Picoult“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological mystery about the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735224315
• ASIN: 0735224315
• ISBN: 0735224315
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Sold on a Monday: A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERA NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER  An unforgettable novel by Kristina McMorris, inspired by a stunning piece of history.  2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1492663999
• UPC: 760789270895
• ASIN: 1492663999
• ISBN: 1492663999
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark

The Darwin Affair: A Novel

“Intellectually stimulating and viscerally exciting, The Darwin Affair is breathtaking from start to stop.” —The Wall Street Journal Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019—an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication On the Origin of Species sets off a string of unspeakable crimes.London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later—and only a block away—Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616206349
• ASIN: 1616206349
• ISBN: 1616206349
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

A Dangerous Fortune: A Novel

• ASIN: B003V4BPJW
• ASIN: B003V4BPJW
• Manufacturer: Dell

New York: The Novel

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the New York PostEdward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant—a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city’s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York’s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village, the arrival of Dutch and British merchants,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345497422
• ASIN: 0345497422
• ISBN: 0345497422
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Price of Time

Would your character change ...if you had all the money in the world?And all the time?Would you become a better person?Or worse?Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller._______________________________________There's a secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. Oneso startling and surprisingly sinister that it needs to be kept--at anyprice.Tim Tigner takes a step back from his bestselling Kyle Achillesseries to introduce Zachary Chase and Skylar Fawkes in a freshstandalone novel that's bound to keep you glued and guessing. Withsecl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 179773816X
• ASIN: 179773816X
• ISBN: 179773816X
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

Refugee. Queen. Saint. Based on the lives of Saint Margaret of Scotland and her husband, King Malcolm III, in eleventh-century Scotland, a young woman strives to fulfill her destiny despite the risks... Shipwrecked on the Scottish coast, a young Saxon princess and her family—including the outlawed Edgar of England—ask sanctuary of the warrior-king Malcolm Canmore, who shrewdly sees the political advantage. He promises to aid Edgar and the Saxon cause in return for the hand of Edgar’s sister, Margaret, in marriage.A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts to life among the barba... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307452808
• ASIN: 0307452808
• ISBN: 0307452808
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan’s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618773479
• UPC: 046442773478
• ASIN: 0618773479
• ISBN: 0618773479
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

For All Time : A Nantucket Brides Novel

When Graydon meets Toby at his brother's wedding, he becomes enthralled with her, despite his destiny to marry a noblewoman, and asks her to help him hide on Nantucket away from his regal

• UPC: 43298011
• Rating: 3.76

The Best of All Possible Worlds : A Novel

When their homeland is destroyed, the survivors of a proud and aloof alien society struggle to reach out to the rest of the galaxy for aid and understanding while striving to preserve their cherished way

• UPC: 25942572
• Rating: 4.286

War and Peace (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #1] - eBook

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world

• UPC: 951890993
• Rating: 4.201

The Way of All Flesh (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #74] - eBook

"A great book because it gives an honest picture of the relationship between father and son, and it could do that because Butler was a truly independent observer, and above all because he was courageous.

• UPC: 868673502
• Rating: 3.3

Sons and Lovers (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #34] - eBook

«Sons and Lovers» is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. The Modern Library placed it ninth on their list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. While the novel

• UPC: 737439534
• Rating: 3.4

Jane Austen: The Complete Novels (Manor Books) (The Greatest Writers of All Time) - eBook

- Lady Susan - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice - Mansfield Park - Emma - Persuasion - Northanger Abbey - Juvenilia – Volume I - Juvenilia – Volume II - Juvenilia – Volume

• UPC: 445973037
• Rating: 4.813

The Moonstone (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #92] - eBook

The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is

• UPC: 901083793
• Rating: 4.104

The Idiot (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #32] - eBook

The 26-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of Saint Petersburg for his trusting nature and naiveté, he finds himself at the

• UPC: 277617733
• Rating: 4.279

Emma (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #38] - eBook

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives

• UPC: 692303060
• Rating: 4.043

Anna Karenina (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #12] - eBook

"The best novel ever written." —William Faulkner"A perfect work of art." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky"One of the greatest love stories in world literature." —Vladimir NabokovConsidered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is

• UPC: 976862217
• Rating: 4.008