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#1 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 91 week(s).

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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 family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of...

2) Fourth wing

Author

Yarros, Rebecca

Series

Empyrean volume 1

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#2 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 18 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....

3) The frozen river: a novel

Author

Lawhon, Ariel

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#3 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial"--

4) A court of thorns and roses

Author

Maas, Sarah J

Series

Court of thorns and roses volume 1

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#4 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 41 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." -- Publisher's description.

5) The housemaid's secret

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McFadden, Freida

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#5 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 35 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...

6) The nightingale

Author

Hannah, Kristin

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#6 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 102 week(s).

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"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...

7) The boyfriend

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McFadden, Freida

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#9 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 16 week(s).

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"Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. Then she meets Tom. Tom is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Before she knows it, Sydney is swept off her feet. But 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...

8) The housemaid is watching

Author

McFadden, Freida

Series

Housemaid volume 3

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#11 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 30 week(s).

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""You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way... I used to clean other people's houses - now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming...

9) A court of mist and fury

Author

Maas, Sarah J

Series

Court of thorns and roses volume 2

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#12 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 36 week(s).

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Though Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms -- and she might be key to stopping it.

10) The silent patient

Author

Michaelides, Alex

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#13 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 141 week(s).

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Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, living in a posh area of London. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word.

11) Verity

Author

Hoover, Colleen

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#14 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 150 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, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...

12) Never lie

Author

McFadden, Freida

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#15 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-02-02. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).

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"Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains...