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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
November 24, 2019

1. Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child

Jack Reacher gets caught up in a turf war between Ukrainian and Albanian gangs
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 Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern

Zachary Ezra Rawlins fights to save a labyrinthine underground repository of stories.
4. 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.
5. The Night Fire
by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch and Renée Ballard return to take up a case that held the attention of Bosch's mentor.
6. The Giver of Stars
by Jojo Moyes

In Depression-era America, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books throughout the mountains of Kentucky.
7. The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell

Libby Jones learns the identity of her parents and inherits a London mansion, but this comes with a mystery of multiple murders.
8. 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.
9.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.
10. 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. 
11. Noel Street
by Richard Paul Evans

A former Vietnam War prisoner of war may gift a single mother with release to her secret pain in Mistletoe, Utah.
12. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry
by Mary Higgins Clark

An investigative journalist seeks to uncover sexual misconduct at a television news network.
13.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.
14. The 19th Christmas
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

In the 19th installment of the Women's Murder Club series, detective Lindsay Boxer and company take on a fearsome criminal known only as "Loman."
15. Final Option
by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison

The 14th book of the Oregon Files series. Juan Cabrillo's enemy has replicated a state-of-the-art ship.
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A version of this list appears in the November 24, 2019 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending November 9, 2019.
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