New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
July 5, 2020

1. 28 Summers

by
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.
2. Where the Crawdads Sing

by
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.
3. Camino Winds

by
John Grisham


The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.
4. The Vanishing Half

by
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.
5. The Summer House

by
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.
6. If It Bleeds

by
Stephen King


Four novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat and If It Bleeds.
7. Deacon King Kong

by
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.
8. Fair Warning
by Michael Connelly

The third book in the Jack McEvoy series. A reporter tracks a killer who uses genetic data to pick his victims.
9. The Guest List

by
Lucy Foley


A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly.
10. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by
Max Brooks


In the aftermath of Mount Rainier erupting, Kate Holland's newly discovered journals tell the tale of a creature known as Bigfoot.
11. Tom Clancy: Firing Point

by
Mike Maden


When an old friend is killed during the bombing of a Barcelona cafe, Jack Ryan Jr. searches for those responsible.
12. Daddy's Girls

by
Danielle Steel


After a California rancher's sudden death, his three daughters discover things they did not know about their father.
13. Hideaway

by
Nora Roberts


A child star escapes her abductors, gathers herself in western Ireland and returns to Hollywood.
14. Walk the Wire

by
David Baldacci


The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.
15. American Dirt

by
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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A version of this list appears in the July 5, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending June 20, 2020.

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