New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
November 8, 2020

1. A Time for Mercy
by John Grisham

The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
2. The Return
by Nicholas Sparks

A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
3. The Searcher
by Tana French

After a divorce, a former Chicago police officer resettles in an Irish village where a boy goes missing.
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V. E. Schwab

A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
5. The Evening and the Morning
by Ken Follett

In 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.
6. The Book of Two Ways
by Jodi Picoult

After surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist.
7. Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman

A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house.
8. 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.
9. Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam

A 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.
10. Troubles in Paradise
by Elin Hilderbrand

The final installment of the trilogy that includes Winter in Paradise and What Happens in Paradise.
11. 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.
12. The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
13. 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.
14. The Silence
by Don DeLillo

The severing of digital connections transforms a dinner gathering in Manhattan on Super Bowl Sunday in 2022.
15. The Last Druid
by Terry Brooks

The fourth book in the Fall of Shannara series.
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A version of this list appears in the November 8, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 24, 2020.
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