New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
July 19, 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 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.
3. 28 Summers

by
Elin Hilderbrand


A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president.
4. Sex and Vanity

by
Kevin Kwan


A nod to A Room With a View in which Lucie Tang Churchill is torn between her WASPy billionaire fiancé and a privileged hunk born in Hong Kong.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Home Before Dark

by
Riley Sager


When Maggie Holt inherits the Vermont estate that was the setting of her father's horror memoir she is confronted by some of the people and relics he chronicled.
9. Mexican Gothic

by
Silvia Moreno-Garcia


In 1950s Mexico, a debutante travels to a distant mansion where family secrets of a faded mining empire have been kept hidden.
10. Friends and Strangers

by
J. Courtney Sullivan


Complications ensue when a New York journalist downshifts to become a mom in a small town and hires a senior at the local women's college to babysit.
11. If It Bleeds

by
Stephen King


Four novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat and If It Bleeds.
12. 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.
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. 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.
15. 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.
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A version of this list appears in the July 19, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending July 4, 2020.
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