While most of the titles on this list are the same as last week, there is one difference: the 2021 romance The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood is back in the top five, following its movie adaptation, which came out this week.
I also thought that now was a good time to check back in with the most popular books on StoryGraph this week—these are the ones being added to users’ TBRs, not necessarily ones they’re reading right now. The top ten includes literary fiction, fantasy, romance, and more.
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The Most Popular Books On the StoryGraph This Week
- Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
- Hollywood, Ending by John Green
- Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
- Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang
- The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
- Dead Beat (Ninth House Trilogy #3) by Leigh Bardugo
- The Knave and the Moon (The Stonewater Kingdom #2) by Rachel Gillig
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Two New Books Out This Week You Should Know About
Unfortunately, the most read books on Goodreads tend not to be diverse by any definition of the word. So, here are a couple of new books out this week that deserve wider readership.
Foreigners by E. L. Shen
I love an intergenerational story, and this one’s getting comparisons to Pachinko and to Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
The Chin family has a long history of keeping secrets. Starting in 1878, Duanfang sees his life as one of greatness. One of the things he does to protect his Manchu family is to hide his past as he grows and builds his own legacy.
Then, in 1965, Zheng Yi makes the journey from Taiwan to New York City to attend college. It’s a world wildly different from the one she grew up in, and she worries that she’s taken on more than she can handle. But then she makes a decision that completely upends her life and her future.
Now, Dawn Chin understands that her family has high expectations of everyone and a practice of silence about their own legacy. But when Dawn has a class assignment to conduct an interview and speaks with her grandmother, generations of family secrets are suddenly exposed. —Kelly Jensen
Eden at Dawn, by Karim Kattan, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
This love story between two men in Palestine is part literary fiction, part romance, part fairy tale. Isaac and Gabriel meet on the streets of Jerusalem as a 50-day sandstorm blots out the sun. Their tentative romance is narrated by the sky itself, observing as they set out on a road trip, dodging checkpoints to start a life in the West Bank as war rages around them. —Danika Ellis
The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week
#5:
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
This turned out to be the sleeper hit of 2025: it has kept growing in popularity, seemingly just from word-of-mouth recommendations. Katie Couric also named it the first pick for her new book club. It’s about a woman who has written letters daily her whole life. When someone from her past writes back, she has to reevaluate a painful period in her life and find a way to forgive. This was read by almost 15,000 users this week and has a 4.4 average rating.
#4:
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
This 2021 romance is getting a boost from the movie adaptation, which came out on September 23rd. It’s one of the STEMinist romances Ali Hazelwood is known for, following Ph.D candidate Olive Smith as she accidentally starts fake-dating a grouchy professor—as you do. (I was pleasantly surprised to learn the movie is the first major motion picture to have a character on the asexual spectrum. Olive is demisexual, which is mentioned on screen.) Almost 15,000 users read it this week, and it has a 4.1 average rating.
#3:
Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
In this 2025 thriller, 81-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is trying to live a quiet life in the suburbs, but when one of her neighbors turns up dead, all eyes turn to her. When Elsie was 14, she was Mad Mabel, the youngest convicted murderer in Australia. Now, with the help of a couple of podcasters, she’s ready to tell the story in her own words. 16,000 users read it this week, and it has a 4.4 average rating.
#2:
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
This is the newest book from the author of The Help. The Help was a huge bestseller, made into a blockbuster movie, but it received a lot of criticism for its use of stereotypes of Black people and white saviorism, as well as its historical inaccuracies. This criticism didn’t prevent Stockett from snagging a lucrative book deal for her new novel, however, and it looks like it hasn’t hurt its sales. The Calamity Club was read by almost 27,000 users this week and has a 4.6 average rating.
#1:
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
At the top of the list is Yesteryear, which came out in April. It’s one of several buzzy tradwife novels out this year. In this one, a tradwife influencer wakes up one day in the time period she’s been romanticizing, and real-life homesteading turns out to be much more difficult—and dangerous—than it looks on Instagram. Yesteryear was read by almost 32,000 users this week and has a 3.9 average rating.
If you’re looking for more buzzy books, check out The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists.
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