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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
January 12, 2020

1. 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.
2. The Guardians
by John Grisham

Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister, antagonizes some ruthless killers when he takes on a wrongful conviction case.
3. The Institute
by 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.
4. Criss Cross
by James Patterson

The 27th book in the Alex Cross series. Copycat crimes make the detective question whether an innocent man was executed.
5. The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood

In a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, old secrets bring three women together as the Republic of Gilead's theocratic regime shows signs of decay.
6. Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child

Jack Reacher gets caught up in a turf war between Ukrainian and Albanian gangs
7. A Minute to Midnight
by 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.
8. The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A young man who was gifted with a mysterious power becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved.
9. Twisted Twenty-Six
by Janet Evanovich

The 26th book in the Stephanie Plum series. A New Jersey gangster's associates go after a bounty hunter's widowed grandmother.
10.The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett

A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.
11. The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides

Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
12. Olive, Again
by 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. 
13. Tom Clancy: Code of Honor
by Marc Cameron

President Jack Ryan learns of a plot against America when he tries to help an old friend who has been arrested in Indonesia.
14. The Giver of Stars
by Jojo Moyes

In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books.
15. The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern

Zachary Ezra Rawlins fights to save a labyrinthine underground repository of stories.
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A version of this list appears in the January 12, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending December 28, 2019.
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