New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers August 28, 2022 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell Mysteries involving a decades-old cold case, a murder in France and a woman's return to London are connected. 4. 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. 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. 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. 7. Sparring Partners by John Grisham Three novellas: Homecoming, Strawberry Moon and Sparring Partners. 8. 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. 9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design. 10. 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. 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. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship. 13. 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. 14. Horse by Geraldine Brooks The story of a racehorse, an enslaved groom and an itinerant painter reverberates in three different eras. 15. The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid Anders is one of many people who wake up with a different appearance and skin color. ©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 This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.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 August 28, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 13, 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