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#1 THE VANISHING HALF
Brit Bennett
The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.
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#2 28 SUMMERS
Elin Hilderbrand
A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president.
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#3 WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
Delia Owens
In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
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#4 CAMINO WINDS
John Grisham
The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.
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#5 THE SUMMER HOUSE
James Patterson and Brendan DuBois
Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former N.Y.P.D. cop, investigates a mass murder near a lake in Georgia.
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#6 THE GUEST LIST
Lucy Foley
A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly.
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#7 IF IT BLEEDS
Stephen King
Four novellas: “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “The Life of Chuck,” “Rat” and “If It Bleeds.”
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#8 FAIR WARNING
Michael Connelly
The third book in the Jack McEvoy series. A reporter tracks a killer who uses genetic data to pick his victims.
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#9 THE LAST FLIGHT
Julie Clark
Claire Cook escapes from living with her quick-tempered husband and assumes another woman’s identity.
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#10 AMERICAN DIRT
Jeanine Cummins
A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.
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#11 DEACON KING KONG
James McBride
In 1969, secrets in a South Brooklyn neighborhood are uncovered when a church deacon known as Sportcoat shoots a drug dealer in public.
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#12 HIDEAWAY
Nora Roberts
A child star escapes her abductors, gathers herself in western Ireland and returns to Hollywood.
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#13 DADDY'S GIRLS
Danielle Steel
After a California rancher‘s sudden death, his three daughters discover things they did not know about their father.
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#14 BIG SUMMER
Jennifer Weiner
Daphne Berg’s former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod.
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#15 DEATH IN HER HANDS
Ottessa Moshfegh
A woman determines to solve a mystery involving a handwritten note and a seemingly nonexistent dead body in the woods.
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