New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers October 23, 2022 1. Fairy Tale by Stephen King A high school kid inherits a shed that is a portal to another world where good and evil are at war. 2. Righteous Prey by John Sandford The 32nd book in the Prey series. Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport go after a group of vigilante killers. 3. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan After returning to her hometown, Olivia McAfee's son gets accused of killing his crush. 4. Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks Musicians from different backgrounds are attracted to each other and a mother flees with her son from an abusive husband. 5. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner goes on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese American poet whose work he was taught to disavow. 6. Verity by Colleen Hoover Lowen Ashleigh is hired by the husband of an injured writer to complete her popular series and uncovers a horrifying truth. 7. The Winners by Fredrik Backman The third book in the Beartown series. Rivalries between two hockey-obsessed towns escalate into violence off the ice. 8. Endless Summer by Elin Hilderbrand A collection of nine stories set during summers in Nantucket. 9. Treasure State: A Cassie Dewell Novel by C.J. Box The sixth book in the Cassie Dewell series. Cassie works two cases involving buried treasure and a con man. 10. Blowback: A Thriller by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois President Keegan Barrett's power grab tests the loyalties of two C.I.A. agents. 11. Vince Flynn: Oath of Loyalty by Kyle Mills The 21st book in the Mitch Rapp series. President Cook, a team of assassins and a killer known as Legion confront Rapp on different fronts. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart A forensic pathologist is on the trail of a serial killer in the Louisiana bayou. 15. The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn In 1928, an orphan and her family create a theater from the rib cage of a whale, which should be the property of the king. ©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 This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.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 October 23, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 8, 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