New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers July 16, 2023 1. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand After a tragedy, a popular food blogger brings friends from distinct times in her life to spend a weekend in Nantucket. 2. Happy Place by Emily Henry A former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine. 3. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders. 4. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show. 5. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Three generations of a family living on South India's Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning. 6. Palazzo by Danielle Steel Challenges arise when a young woman takes over her family's haute couture Italian leather brand and 400-year-old palazzo in Venice. 7. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. 8. Zero Days by Ruth Ware A security system tester must elude the police to find the person who killed her partner in marriage and in crime. 9. The Only One Left by Riley Sager In 1983, a mute woman confined to a wheelchair types out her side of the story about a family massacre to her home-health aide. 10. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano In an homage to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a young man's dark past resurfaces as he gets to know the family of his college sweetheart. 11. Cross Down by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois John Sampson seeks justice after Alex Cross gets injured. 12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design. 13. Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See Tan Yunxian learns the pillars of Chinese medicine from her grandmother but is sent into an arranged marriage and pressured by her mother-in-law. 14. The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray The first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune work together for justice and equality. 15.  Identity by Nora Roberts After her roommate is killed by a con artist, a former Army brat builds a new life at her mother's home in Vermont. ©2023 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 July 16, 2023 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending July 1, 2023. 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, John W. Risley, Jr., Chairman