New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers September 4, 2022 1. All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers  A journalist who returns to her hometown vows to find a missing girl and solve a 20-year-old cold case. 2. The Challenge by Danielle Steel Parents of children who have gone missing on a dangerous peak in Montana form a search-and-rescue mission. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design. 11. 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. 12. Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel by Beth Revis Princess Leia and Han Solo get married and continue to fight what  remains of the Imperial forces. 13. Sparring Partners by John Grisham Three novellas: Homecoming, Strawberry Moon and Sparring Partners. 14. Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner New adversaries confront returning characters in situations set before and after the events of the film Heat. 15. Shattered by James Patterson and James O. Born The 14th book in the Michael Bennett series. When an F.B.I. abduction specialist disappears, Bennett goes outside his jurisdiction. ©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 4, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 20, 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