Top books on Kindle+ from best-selling authors

Key takeaways

Kindle+ is Amazon’s reading subscription for millions of books, audiobooks, comics, and manga.
Discover best-selling authors like Rebecca Yarros, Colleen Hoover, and Freida McFadden on Kindle+.
Explore several picks, including fantasy, thrillers, dark romance, and nonfiction—from Fourth Wing to Verity.

From buzzy new releases to reader favorites, some of the hottest books of the moment are on Kindle+. Whether you’re looking for dragons and high-stakes adventure, twist-filled thrillers, dark romance, or a thought-provoking story, there’s something for everyone.

Read and listen to the best-selling series The Empyrean by Rebecca Yarros, dive into the wildly popular Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman, or explore the science behind how we think and make decisions in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Discover Freida McFadden’s latest thriller The Witch, or Wild Dark Shore, one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2025. Plus, check out Verity by Colleen Hoover, now an Amazon MGM Studios film starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett.

With one simple subscription, Kindle+ gives you access to millions of stories across every genre, from best-selling series to audiobooks, comics, and manga.

We’ve rounded up some standout titles currently available in the Kindle+ catalog. Browse the picks below, find your next favorite, and start borrowing new titles instantly—happy reading!

Book descriptions are from Amazon.com and may be lightly edited for clarity.

1. The Empyrean series

By Rebecca Yarros

20-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. They incinerate them. Start your reading adventure with Fourth Wing.

2. Verity

By Colleen Hoover

Now an Amazon MGM Studios film starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett, Verity is Colleen Hoover’s best-selling psychological thriller about a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job of a lifetime. Lowen Ashleigh is hired by Jeremy Crawford to complete the remaining books in a successful series that his injured wife, best-selling author Verity Crawford, is unable to finish. While sorting through Verity’s notes and outlines, Lowen discovers an unfinished autobiography filled with bone-chilling admissions Verity never intended anyone to read. Lowen keeps the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, but as her feelings for him intensify, she begins to recognize what could happen if he discovers his wife’s horrifying truth.

3. The Witch

By Freida McFadden

From No. 1 New York Times best-selling author Freida McFadden comes her latest release, The Witch, a chilling, twist-filled thriller about secrets―those we inherit, those we bury, and those people will burn to keep silent. When Julia Barlow loses her job and apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family’s 17th-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. and a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia's bedroom door. As Julia digs into the house’s dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692―and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet.

4. Dungeon Crawler Carl

By Matt Dinniman

The wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series follows Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s prize-winning show cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive an alien invasion and the end of the world—or just get to the next level. Stuck in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon that’s actually the set of a sadistic intergalactic reality television show, the two must navigate exploding goblins, magical potions, and deadly, drug-dealing llamas, all while keeping countless viewers across the galaxy entertained. Survival is optional.

5. Wild Dark Shore

By Charlotte McConaghy

Named one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2025, Wild Dark Shore is a novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love set on a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Dominic Salt and his three children are the final inhabitants of Shearwater, home to the world’s largest seed bank, when a mysterious woman named Rowan washes ashore during the worst storm the island has ever seen. As the family nurses her back to strength, Rowan begins to imagine a future where she could belong again. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she came to Shearwater, and when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping secrets of his own. As the storms gather force, they must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late.

6. The Poison Daughter

By Sheila Masterson

The Poison Daughter is a stand-alone dark fantasy romance about Harlow Carrenwell, the poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family, whose kiss kills anyone it touches. When she’s not acting as an assassin at her parents’ whims, Harlow secretly moonlights as a vigilante for abused women—until she kisses a mark who doesn’t die. Worse, the man immune to her deadly kiss is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, who now knows about her double life. Whisked away to wed at his wild mountain fort, Harlow must uncover what his family is planning while facing the impossible: making the man who knows she’s a killer fall in love with her anyway.

7. Assistant to the Villain

By Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in this laugh-out-loud romance about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain. With an ailing family to support, Evie Sage needs a job, so when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in an offer, she says yes. But no job is perfect—especially when you develop a crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. But as she’s getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling, Evie suspects someone is sabotaging the Villain and his entire nefarious empire. She must figure out who’s behind it while resisting her growing feelings for her boss. After all, a good job is hard to find.

8. Thinking, Fast and Slow

By Daniel Kahneman

In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes you on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. From the impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies to the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy, Kahneman reveals how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. He offers practical insights into how choices are made in both our business and personal lives—and how we can guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.

9. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

By Oliver Burkeman

Assuming you live to be 80, you have just over four thousand weeks. In Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman explores the challenge of how best to use that time in a world obsessed with productivity, overfilled inboxes, and never-ending to-do lists. Drawing on insights from philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, and practical guide to time management that challenges the modern fixation on “getting everything done.” Instead, he introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing the limits of our time and rethinking how we choose to spend it.

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This article was updated on October 22, 2026, to reflect that Kindle Unlimited has been renamed Kindle+ and to refresh the list of top titles available on Kindle+.