August 16, 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. 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. 3. 1st Case by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts After getting kicked out of M.I.T., Angela Hoot interns with the F.B.I. and tracks the murderous siblings known as the Poet and the Engineer. 4. The Order by Daniel Silva The 20th book in the Gabriel Allon series. The art restorer and spy cuts his family's vacation short to investigate whether Pope Paul VII was murdered. 5. Near Dark by Brad Thor The 19th book in the Scot Harvath series. With a bounty on his head, Harvath makes an alliance with a Norwegian intelligence operative. 6. 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president. 7. The Guest List by Lucy Foley A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly. 8. Deadlock by Catherine Coulter The 24th book in the F.B.I. Thriller series. A young wife, a psychopath and three red boxes puzzle agents Savich and Sherlock. 9. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia In 1950s Mexico, a debutante travels to a distant mansion where family secrets of a faded mining empire have been kept hidden. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. The End of Her by Shari Lapeña The parents of colicky twin girls have other trouble delivered in the form of suspicions surrounding the husband's first wife's death. 13. If It Bleeds by Stephen King Four novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat and If It Bleeds. 14. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband. 15. Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan A nod to A Room With a View in which Lucie Tang Churchill is torn between her WASPy billionaire fiancé and a privileged hunk born in Hong Kong. © 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 August 16, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 1, 2020. Demarest Free Public Library 90 Hardenburgh Ave. Demarest, New Jersey 07627 (201) 768-8714 demarestlibrary.org