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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
November 15, 2020

1. The Sentinel
by Lee Child and Andrew Child

Jack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy.
2. A Time for Mercy
by John Grisham

The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
3. The Return
by Nicholas Sparks

A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
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.
5. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
by Fannie Flagg

Bud Threadgoode returns to his hometown and sets off some life-changing events.
6. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V. E. Schwab

A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
7. The Noel Letters
by Richard Paul Evans

An editor of a publishing house inherits her father's bookstore and receives letters from an anonymous source.
8. Truly, Madly, Deeply
by Karen Kingsbury

An 18-year-old who wants to become a police officer falls in love with a young woman who has an aggressive form of cancer.
9. The Evening and the Morning
by Ken Follett

In 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.
10. The Searcher
by Tana French

After a divorce, a former Chicago police officer resettles in an Irish village where a boy goes missing.
11. The Book of Two Ways
by Jodi Picoult

After surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist.
12. Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam

A 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.
13. The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett

The 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.
14. Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman

A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house.
15. 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.
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A version of this list appears in the November 15, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 31, 2020.
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