New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers May 31, 2020 1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. 2. Camino Winds by John Grisham The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island. 3. If It Bleeds by Stephen King Four novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat and If It Bleeds. 4. Walk the Wire by David Baldacci The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom. 5. The 20th Victim by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro The 20th book in the Women's Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputable persons in three separate cities. 6. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner Daphne Berg's former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod. 7. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel. 8. The Last Trial by Scott Turow An 85-year-old defense lawyer puts off his retirement to aid a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, who is accused of insider trading, fraud and murder.  9. All Adults Here by Emma Straub A repressed memory triggers Astrid Strick to weigh the outcomes of her parenting of her now-grown children. 10. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers. 11. The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate The stories of three women struggling to get from Louisiana to Texas during Reconstruction are discovered by a first-year teacher living a century later. 12. The Wedding Dress by Danielle Steel The triumphs and losses of one family over the last century are recounted as a symbolic piece of apparel gets handed down through the generations. 13. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books. 14. The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi In 1950s Jaipur, a young woman who escaped an abusive marriage and started a new life is confronted by her husband. 15. Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore When the Duke orders his death, Pocket of Dog Snogging escapes to  the woods where he works to become the fairy king's replacement fool. © 2020 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 May 31, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 16, 2020. Comsewogue Public Library 170 Terryville Road Port Jefferson Station, New York 11776 (631) 928-1212 www.cplib.org