New York Times
Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
June 28, 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. If It Bleeds
by
Stephen King
Four novellas:
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
,
The Life of Chuck
,
Rat
and
If It Bleeds
.
8. 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.
9. Hideaway
by
Nora Roberts
A child star escapes her abductors, gathers herself in western Ireland and returns to Hollywood.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Big Summer
by
Jennifer Weiner
Daphne Berg's former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod.
13. 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.
14. The Lies That Bind
by
Emily Giffin
When the new man in her life disappears on 9/11, the budding reporter Cecily Gardner questions what she knew about him.
15. The Daughters of Erietown
by
Connie Schultz
The story of four generations of an Ohio family brings to life the tribulations encountered and bonds formed by women in the 20th century.
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A version of this list appears in the June 28, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending June 13, 2020.
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