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#1 A TIME FOR MERCY
John Grisham
The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
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#2 THE RETURN
Nicholas Sparks
A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
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#3 THE SEARCHER
Tana French
After a divorce, a former Chicago police officer resettles in an Irish village where a boy goes missing.
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#4 THE EVENING AND THE MORNING
Ken Follett
In a prequel to “The Pillars of the Earth,” a boatbuilder, a Norman noblewoman and a monk live in England under attack by the Welsh and the Vikings.
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#5 THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
VE Schwab
A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
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#6 THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS
Jodi Picoult
After surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist.
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#7 LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
Rumaan Alam
A family vacation in an isolated part of Long Island is thrown into confusion when the home’s owners return claiming New York City is having a blackout.
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#8 TROUBLES IN PARADISE
Elin Hilderbrand
The final installment of the trilogy that includes “Winter in Paradise” and “What Happens in Paradise.”
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#9 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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#10 JINGLE ALL THE WAY
Debbie Macomber
A December cruise in the Amazon fosters a potential change in priorities for a career-focused real-estate executive.
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#11 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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#12 INVISIBLE GIRL
Lisa Jewell
An ex-schoolteacher accused of sexual misconduct lives near a family led by a child psychologist whose former patient goes missing.
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#13 THE COAST-TO-COAST MURDERS
James Patterson and JD Barker
A detective and an F.B.I. agent are baffled by a cross-country killing spree.
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#14 ANXIOUS PEOPLE
Fredrik Backman
A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house.
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#15 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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