New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
August 30, 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.
 
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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.
 
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3. A Private Cathedral
by James Lee Burke

The 23rd book in the Dave Robicheaux series. Rival Louisiana crime families and a time-traveling superhuman assassin bring up Robicheaux's personal demons.
 
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4. 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.
 
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5. 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.
 
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6. Choppy Water
by Stuart Woods

The 54th book in the Stone Barrington series. Things get rough for Stone as he goes after criminals in New York City and Key West.
 
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7. 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.
 
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8. 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.
 
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9. 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.
 
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10. 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.
 
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11. 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.
 
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12. 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.
 
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13. The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides

Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
 
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14. If It Bleeds
by Stephen King

Four novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and If It Bleeds.
 
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A version of this list appears in the August 30, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 15, 2020.