New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
October 13, 2019

1.The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A young man who was gifted with a mysterious power becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved.
2. The Institute
by Stephen King

Children with special talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods.
3. The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood

In a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, old secrets bring three women together as the Republic of Gilead's theocratic regime shows signs of decay.
4. Lethal Agent
by Kyle Mills

Mexican cartels, ISIS and a possible pandemic bring Mitch Rapp back into action.
5. Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens

A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
6.The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett

A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.
7. The Girl Who Lived Twice
by David Lagercrantz

Mikael Blomkvist helps Lisbeth Salander put her past behind her in the latest installment of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.
8. Killer Instinct
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

The second book in the Instinct series. When an act of terror strikes New York, Dr. Reinhart and Detective Needham go after a sociopath.
9. The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Unveiled
by Jonathan Cahn

A traveler discovers mysteries hidden behind seven locked doors.
10. The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott

During the Cold War, members of the C.I.A.'s typing pool aid its mission to smuggle the banned book Doctor Zhivago behind the Iron Curtain.
11. Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson

The long-lasting decisions young people make are explored through the history of a Brooklyn teenager's family.
12. The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead

Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
13. The World That We Knew
by Alice Hoffman

A rabbi's daughter creates a mystical Jewish creature that is sworn to protect a 12-year-old girl in World War II Europe.
14. The Titanic Secret: An Isaac Bell Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul 

The 11th book in the Isaac Bell series. Dirk Pitt finds a document that brings a mystery from 1911 back to life.
15. A Better Man
by Louise Penny

The 15th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. The search for a missing girl is imperiled by rising floodwaters across the province.
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A version of this list appears in the October 13, 2019 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 28, 2019.
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