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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.
On the bestsellers list for 99 weeks
#2 NEAR DARK
Brad Thor
The 19th book in the Scot Harvath series. With a bounty on his head, Harvath makes an alliance with a Norwegian intelligence operative.
On the bestsellers list for 1 week
#3 THE ORDER
Daniel Silva
The 20th book in the Gabriel Allon series. The art restorer and spy cuts his family’s vacation short to investigate whether Pope Paul VII was murdered.
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#4 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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#5 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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#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 AXIOM'S END
Lindsay Ellis
Cora Sabino finds herself caught between her estranged whistle-blower father and the extraterrestrials who have been living here for decades.
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#8 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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#9 PEACE TALKS
Jim Butcher
The 16th book in the Dresden Files series. Chicago's only professional wizard tries to keep the peace during a summit of the Supernatural nations of the world.
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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 SEX AND VANITY
Kevin Kwan
A nod to “A Room With a View” in which Lucie Tang Churchill is torn between her WASPy billionaire fiancé and a privileged hunk born in Hong Kong.
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#12 A WALK ALONG THE BEACH
Debbie Macomber
After dealing with loss and setbacks, two sisters take risks on dreams and love.
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#13 IF IT BLEEDS
Stephen King
Four novellas: “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “The Life of Chuck,” “Rat” and “If It Bleeds.”
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#14 THE PULL OF THE STARS
Emma Donoghue
While war and the Great Flu ravages 1918 Dublin, three women help expectant mothers who have been quarantined in a hospital.
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#15 BIG SUMMER
Jennifer Weiner
Daphne Berg’s former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod.
On the bestsellers list for 11 weeks
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