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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers May 31, 2020
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| 1. 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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| 2. Camino Winds by John GrishamThe 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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| 3. If It Bleeds by Stephen KingFour novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat and If It Bleeds. |
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| 4. Walk the Wire by David BaldacciThe sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom. |
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| 5. The 20th Victim by James Patterson and Maxine PaetroThe 20th book in the Women's Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputable persons in three separate cities. |
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| 6. Big Summer by Jennifer WeinerDaphne Berg's former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod. |
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| 7. American Dirt by Jeanine CumminsA bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel. |
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| 8. The Last Trial by Scott TurowAn 85-year-old defense lawyer puts off his retirement to aid a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, who is accused of insider trading, fraud and murder. |
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| 9. All Adults Here by Emma StraubA repressed memory triggers Astrid Strick to weigh the outcomes of her parenting of her now-grown children. |
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| 10. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk KiddA scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers. |
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| 11. The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa WingateThe stories of three women struggling to get from Louisiana to Texas during Reconstruction are discovered by a first-year teacher living a century later. |
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| 12. The Wedding Dress by Danielle SteelThe triumphs and losses of one family over the last century are recounted as a symbolic piece of apparel gets handed down through the generations. |
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| 13. The Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesIn Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books. |
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| 14. The Henna Artist by Alka JoshiIn 1950s Jaipur, a young woman who escaped an abusive marriage and started a new life is confronted by her husband. |
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| 15. Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher MooreWhen the Duke orders his death, Pocket of Dog Snogging escapes to the woods where he works to become the fairy king's replacement fool. |
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