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| New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers November 22, 2020 |  |  |   
 | | |  | 		2. A Time for Mercy		 by John GrishamThe 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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| |  | 		3. The Sentinel		 by Lee Child and Andrew ChildJack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy. | 
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| |  | 		4. The Return		 by Nicholas SparksA doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life. | 
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| |  | 		6. Three Women Disappear		 by James Patterson and Shan Serafin Detective Sean Walsh mush solve a case involving three missing women who had access to a home where a man was murdered. | 
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| |  | 		7. The Vanishing Half		 by Brit BennettThe 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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| |  | 		8. The Evening and the Morning		 by Ken FollettIn 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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| |  | 		10. The Book of Two Ways		 by Jodi PicoultAfter surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist. | 
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| |  | 		11. Where the Crawdads Sing		 by Delia OwensIn 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. Anxious People		 by Fredrik BackmanA failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house. | 
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| |  | 		13. White Ivy		 by Susie YangYears after being sent to China as a punishment by her mother, Ivy Lin reconnects with her teenage crush but her past threatens to catch up to her. | 
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| |  | 		14. The Searcher		 by Tana FrenchAfter a divorce, a former Chicago police officer resettles in an Irish village where a boy goes missing. | 
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| |  | 		15. Leave the World Behind		 by Rumaan AlamA 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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