New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers September 11, 2022 Babel: or, the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang In 1828, Robin Swift studies at Oxford University's Royal Institute of Translation and faces a choice when Britain pursues a war with China. 2. Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter U.S. Marshal Andrea Oliver goes to Longbill Beach to protect a judge and winds up investigating a cold case from 1982. 3. All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester  A journalist who returns to her hometown vows to find a missing girl and solve a 20-year-old cold case. 4. Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs The 13th book in the Mercy Thompson series. The disappearance of the vampire Wulfe and others might indicate the return of the Harvester. 5. Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger The 19th book in the Cork O'Conner mystery series. Cork uses his skills as a hunter to track mercenaries and confronts his own self-doubt 6. The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entry-level investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power. 7. The Challenge by Danielle Steel Parents of children who have gone missing on a dangerous peak in Montana form a search-and-rescue mission. 8. Overkill by Sandra Brown A former football star falls for a state prosecutor at the same time he must decide whether to kill his ex-wife, who is on life support, to ensnare her attacker. 9. The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff. 10. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960's becomes a star on a TV cooking show. 11. Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister A mother who witnesses her son murder a stranger finds her days are going in reverse and seeks to use that to alter events. 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 It Girl by Ruth Ware A decade after her first year at Oxford, an expectant mother looks into the mystery of her former best friend's death. 14. Sparring Partners by John Grisham Three novellas: Homecoming, Strawberry Moon and Sparring Partners. 15. Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva The 22nd book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud. ©2022 All rights reserved by New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.   A version of this list appears in the September 11, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 27, 2022. Atlantic County Library System | 40 Farragut Avenue, Mays Landing, NJ 08330 Phone: (609) 625-2776 | www.atlanticlibrary.org        Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson Atlantic County Board of Commissioners, Maureen Kern, Chairwoman