Best Selling Novels By Year - April 2024

The Year of the Dog (A Pacy Lin Novel)

A special edition of a modern classic by the Newbery-Award winning and bestselling author of Where the Mountain Meets the MoonWhen Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the Year of the Dog is a lucky one for her after all.This funny and profound book is a wonderful debut novel by award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator Grace Lin, and young readers will be sure to love ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 031606002X
• ASIN: 031606002X
• ISBN: 9780316060028
• Brand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Batman: Year One

In 1986, Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli produced this groundbreaking reinterpretation of the origin of Batman—who he is, and how he came to be. Sometimes careless and naive, this Dark Knight is far from the flawless vigilante he is today. In his first year on the job, Batman feels his way around a Gotham City far darker than the one he left. His solemn vow to extinguish the town’s criminal element is only half the battle; along with Lieutenant James Gordon, the Dark Knight must also fight a police force more corrupt than the scum in the streets.Batman: Year One stands next to Batman: ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1401207529
• ASIN: 1401207529
• ISBN: 0290204895
• Brand: DC Comics
• Manufacturer: DC Comics

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

An unforgettable tale of a brave young woman during the plague in 17th century England from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142001430
• ASIN: 0142001430
• ISBN: 0142001430
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Year of the Book (An Anna Wang novel)

In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is that friendship is complicated.When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Mountain, books provide what real life cannot—constant companionship and insight into her changing world.Books, however, can’t tell Anna how to find a true friend. She’ll have to discover that on her own. In the tradition of classics like Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books and Eleanor Estes’ One Hundred Dresses, this novel subtly explores what... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544022637
• ASIN: 0544022637
• ISBN: 0544022637
• Brand: Harcourt Brace and Company
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One, Vol. 1 (light novel) (Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One (light novel))

Three days after his sister was no more, he finally gained the will to move. In the aftermath of a goblin raid, a lone boy mourned his village, his family.Five years later, he visited a city on the frontier and became an adventurer. It was five years earlier that the boy who had lost a place to call home was reunited with his childhood friend.Despite being the lowest Porcelain rank, the boy readies himself and then sets off alone for a lair of goblins, marking the beginning of the legend of Goblin Slayer!

• ASIN: 1975302842
• ASIN: 1975302842
• ISBN: 1975302842
• Manufacturer: Yen Press

Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One, Vol. 2 (light novel) (Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One (light novel))

The die is cast.During one of his usual raids, the young man who has come to be known as Goblin Slayer discovers a ring that glows with a mysterious, fiery light. In is quest to identify it, he's introduced to Arc Mage, an eccentric wizard who lives on the edge of town. She enlists Goblin Slayer's help in revising the Monster Manual, a task the Guild has entrusted to her. It just so happens that the article she's been assigned to write is about...goblins.Arc Mage and the young Goblin Slayer's ongoing research takes them to the ends of the earth, where they eventually reach an ominous, dark tow... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1975357639
• ASIN: 1975357639
• ISBN: 1975357639
• Manufacturer: Yen On

A Year of Extraordinary Moments (A Magnolia Grove Novel)

From USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby comes a heartwarming novel about letting go of the past to make way for a brighter future.Tracy Briggs has finally gotten her act together. She’s focusing on her own life and helping her hearing-impaired son learn to talk. With her sister married and exploring a new career, Tracy has begun to run the family’s magazine business and feels her life is pretty much perfect. That is, until her son’s deadbeat dad shows up in Magnolia Grove asking for a second chance.Now that her son is getting the help he needs and a promising new romance with ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503904709
• ASIN: 1503904709
• ISBN: 1503904709
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Next Year in Havana

A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK“A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice.”—Reese WitherspoonAfter the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity—and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest—until she embarks on a clandestine affair w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399586687
• ASIN: 0399586687
• ISBN: 0399586687
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Year of the Fortune Cookie (3) (An Anna Wang novel)

Eleven-year-old Anna heads off to sixth grade, leaving the comfort of elementary school behind and entering the larger, more complex world of middle school. Surrounded by classmates who have their roots all in America, Anna begins to feel out of place and wonders where she belongs. When Anna takes a trip to China, she not only explores a new country and culture, but finds answers to her questions about whether she is more Chinese or more American.          This young illustrated chapter book is the third in the series that includes The Year of the Book and TheYear of the Baby. 

• ASIN: 0544455924
• ASIN: 0544455924
• ISBN: 0544455924
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Batman: Year One Deluxe Edition

In 1986, writer Frank Miller joined with artist David Mazzucchelli and colorist Richmond Lewis to create one of the most groundbreaking superhero tales ever to see print—BATMAN: YEAR ONE, now available in a deluxe edition!   Originally published over four issues in the monthly BATMAN series, this mesmerizing story followed the unprecedented success of Miller’s apocalyptic saga BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS to become one of the most popular and influential graphic novels in the history of American comics. By turns brutal, tender, grim and hopeful, Miller and Mazzucchelli’s masterful re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1401272940
• ASIN: 1401272940
• ISBN: 1401272940
• Brand: DC COMICS
• Manufacturer: DC Comics

The Year of the Three Sisters (An Anna Wang novel)

It's summer time and twelve-year old Anna Wang  is writing letters and exchanging English for Chinese lessons with her pen pal Fan in China. When Anna and her friend Andee decide to invite Fan to stay as an exchange student  in Cincinnati, Fan responds in an unexpected way. Through this experience, Anna learns more about family values in today's Chinese culture.In the fourth chapter book sequel to The Year of the Book, The Year of the Baby, and The Year of the Fortune Cookie, Anna grows her understanding of how to overcome conflict with communication in order to build enduring friendship... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544668499
• ASIN: 0544668499
• ISBN: 0544668499
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years Book Two

This month marks TEN YEARS OF KICK-ASS -- the greatest superhero comic of all time. That also means it's been 10 years since Hit-Girl, the world's deadliest tween assassin, exploded onto the scene to slaughter super-villains and serve hot justice to the scum of New York City. In KICK-ASS: THE DAVE LIZEWSKI YEARS VOL 2 she trains a novice Kick-Ass in the lethal fighting styles she learned from Big Daddy. In return, Kick-Ass is helping her survive middle school...without any bloodshed. When Kick-Ass gets benched, Hit-Girl has to take on the Mafia solo. To celebrate the launch of the NEW Kick-Ass... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1534307206
• ASIN: 1534307206
• ISBN: 1534307206
• Brand: Image Comics
• Manufacturer: Image Comics

This Year You Write Your Novel

No more excuses. "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," bestselling novelist Walter Mosley advises. Anyone can write a novel now, and in this essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Walter Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one year. Mosley tells how to:- Create a daily writing regimen to fit any writer's needs--and how to stick to it.- Determine the narrative voice that's right for every writer's style.- Get past those first challenging sentences and into the heart of a story. Intended as both inspiration and instruction, THIS YEAR ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316065498
• ASIN: 0316065498
• ISBN: 0316065498
• Brand: Mosley, Walter
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

The Year of the Garden (5) (An Anna Wang novel)

This prequel to THE YEAR OF THE BOOK follows perceptive, astute Anna as she strives to grow a perfect garden — only to realize that the garden she grows with her new friend is more than good enough, weeds and all. A heartfelt and charming introduction to the Anna Wang series. When Anna is gifted a copy of The Secret Garden, it inspires her to follow her dreams—maybe she can plant ivy and purple crocuses and the birds will come. Or maybe what grows from her dream of a garden is even better: friendship. And friendship, like a garden, often has a mind of its own. In this prequel to The Year ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328900177
• ASIN: 1328900177
• ISBN: 1328900177
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Same Beach, Next Year: A Novel

New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and generous heart.One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives. A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062390791
• ASIN: 0062390791
• ISBN: 0062390791
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

Stand by Me: The Uplifting and Heartbreaking Best Seller You Need to Read This Year

"They'll always have each other... won't they? Lisa and Elliot have been best friends since the day they met as children. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart and Lisa is struggling. Her

• UPC: 919235971

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories, with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science

• UPC: 415598537

Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 2

Looking for the steamiest stories of female-on-female passion? Youve found them! IBest Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 2/I is guaranteed to have your heart

• UPC: 387755193
• Model: 32224

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight - eBook

FEATURING GREG EGAN • YOON HA LEE • NEIL GAIMAN • E LILY YU • K J PARKER • GEOFF RYMAN • M BENNARDO • RAMEZ NAAM • TED CHIANG • PRIYA SHARMA • RICHARD

• UPC: 193552455
• Rating: 5.0

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten - eBook

FEATURING Paolo Bacigalupi • Elizabeth Bear • Greg Bear • Jeffrey Ford • Neil Gaiman • Nalo Hopkinson • Nisi Shawl • Simon Ings • Gwyneth Jones • Caitlin R. Kiernan • Anne Leckie •

• UPC: 594078899
• Rating: 4.0

Writers of the Future Volume 31 : The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

Presents a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by the winners of the 2014 "Writers of the Future" contest chosen by a distinguished panel of top writers, critics, and

• UPC: 43905908
• Rating: 4.267

Writers of the Future Volume 29 : The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

Turn the page open your eyes...and look into the future They unleash the power of dreams and unlock the secrets of the universe. They bend time, twist perception, and put a new spin on the

• UPC: 23778891
• Rating: 4.5

Aggressor (Nick Stone Book 8): Andy McNab's best-selling series of Nick Stone thrillers - now available in the US, with bonus material - eBook

Former deniable operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting paradise of Australia.But when he sees a

• UPC: 640122115
• Rating: 4.0

Brute Force (Nick Stone Book 11): Andy McNab's best-selling series of Nick Stone thrillers - now available in the US, with bonus material - eBook

A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, packed with enough arms and ammunition to start a war.Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on taking out those responsible

• UPC: 827717114
• Rating: 4.0

He Said/she Said: the must-read bestselling suspense novel of the year by Erin K

• UPC: 392220182554
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 24 USD

He Said/she Said: the must-read bestselling suspense novel of the year by Erin K

• UPC: 392270957096
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 16 USD

Follow Me: The Bestselling Crime Novel Terrifying Everyone This Year by Angela C

• UPC: 392220257716
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 16 USD