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#1 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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#2 LOST
James Patterson and James O Born
The new head of an F.B.I. task force takes on a crime syndicate run by a pair of Russian nationals.
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#3 DEAR EDWARD
Ann Napolitano
A 12-year-old boy tries to start over after becoming the sole survivor of a plane crash in which he lost his immediate family.
On the bestsellers list for 2 weeks
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#4 SUCH A FUN AGE
Kiley Reid
Tumult ensues when Alix Chamberlain’s babysitter is mistakenly accused of kidnapping her charge.
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#5 THE GUARDIANS
John Grisham
Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister, antagonizes some ruthless killers when he takes on a wrongful conviction case.
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#6 MORAL COMPASS
Danielle Steel
Shortly after Saint Ambrose Prep goes co-ed, a student is attacked and the community falls apart.
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#7 THE DUTCH HOUSE
Ann Patchett
A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.
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#8 THE SILENT PATIENT
Alex Michaelides
Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
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#9 THE GIVER OF STARS
Jojo Moyes
In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books.
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#10 LONG BRIGHT RIVER
Liz Moore
Mickey risks her job with the Philadelphia police force by going after a murderer and searching for her missing sister.
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#11 THE INSTITUTE
Stephen King
Children with special talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods.
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#12 A MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT
David Baldacci
When Atlee Pine returns to her hometown to investigate her sister’s kidnapping from 30 years ago, she winds up tracking a potential serial killer.
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#13 OLIVE, AGAIN
Elizabeth Strout
In a follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Olive Kitteridge,” new relationships, including a second marriage, are encountered in a seaside town in Maine.
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#14 BLUE MOON
Lee Child
Jack Reacher gets caught up in a turf war between Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
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#15 CRISS CROSS
James Patterson
The 27th book in the Alex Cross series. Copycat crimes make the detective question whether an innocent man was executed.
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