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| New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers November 15, 2020 |  |  |   
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         | | |  | 		1. The Sentinel		 by Lee Child and Andrew ChildJack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy. | 
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| |  | 		2. A Time for Mercy		 by John GrishamThe third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990. | 
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| |  | 		3. The Return		 by Nicholas SparksA doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life. | 
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| |  | 		4. Three Women Disappear		 by James Patterson and Shan Serafin Detective Sean Walsh mush solve a case involving three missing women who had access to a home where a man was murdered. | 
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| |  | 		7. The Noel Letters		 by Richard Paul EvansAn editor of a publishing house inherits her father's bookstore and receives letters from an anonymous source. | 
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| |  | 		8. Truly, Madly, Deeply		 by Karen KingsburyAn 18-year-old who wants to become a police officer falls in love with a young woman who has an aggressive form of cancer. | 
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| |  | 		9. The Evening and the Morning		 by Ken FollettIn a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth, a boatbuilder, a Norman noblewoman and a monk live in England under attack by the Welsh and the Vikings. | 
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| |  | 		10. The Searcher		 by Tana FrenchAfter a divorce, a former Chicago police officer resettles in an Irish village where a boy goes missing. | 
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| |  | 		11. The Book of Two Ways		 by Jodi PicoultAfter surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist. | 
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| |  | 		12. Leave the World Behind		 by Rumaan AlamA family vacation in an isolated part of Long Island is thrown into confusion when the home's owners return claiming New York City is having a blackout. | 
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| |  | 		13. The Vanishing Half		 by Brit BennettThe lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine. | 
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| |  | 		14. Anxious People		 by Fredrik BackmanA failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house. | 
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| |  | 		15. Where the Crawdads Sing		 by Delia OwensIn a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. | 
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