Fiction bestsellers right now

Alice Feeney’s My Husband’s Wife is holding the top spot on fiction charts for its seventh straight week this March, while Reese’s Book Club just spotlighted Rachel Hochhauser’s debut Lady Tremaine—both are driving strong sales and buzz Publishers Weekly. Genre readers are also noting Uketsu’s Strange Buildings and recent roundups highlighting Neil Jordan and Cameron Sullivan in sci‑fi/fantasy/horror coverage The Guardian.

My Husband’s Wife was published in the UK on Jan. 27, 2026 [panmacmillan.com], and the title has been climbing independent‑bookshop charts, topping the Independent Bookshop Top 20 according to The Bookseller [thebookseller.com]. Lady Tremaine was released by St. Martin’s Press on March 3, 2026 [bookreporter.com], and the debut has already earned IndieNext and LibraryReads nods while its audiobook is narrated by Bessie Carter [bookclubs.com]. Pushkin Vertigo acquired world English rights to Uketsu’s Strange Buildings in November 2025 and published the English translation on Feb. 26, 2026 [thebookseller.com], with Jim Rion credited as translator and publisher notes framing Uketsu as an enigmatic masked YouTuber‑author [pushkinpress.com]. Neil Jordan’s The Library of Traumatic Memory is out via Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury this spring and Jordan is scheduled to discuss the novel at the Cúirt International Festival on April 24, 2026 [bloomsbury.com], while Cameron Sullivan’s The Red Winter was published by Tor on Feb. 24, 2026 and has been the subject of multiple genre reviews praising its historical‑mythic reimagining [fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com].

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