New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers August 21, 2022 1. The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci When his ex-girlfriend turns up dead in his office building, an entry-level investment analyst delves into the halls of economic power. 2. Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister A mother who witnesses her son murder a stranger finds her days are going in reverse and seeks to use that to alter events. 3. Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva The 22nd book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud. 4. The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff. 5. The It Girl by Ruth Ware A decade after her first year at Oxford, an expectant mother looks into the mystery of her former best friend's death. 6. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship. 7. Sparring Partners by John Grisham Three novellas: Homecoming, Strawberry Moon and Sparring Partners. 8. Shattered by James Patterson and James O. Born The 14th book in the Michael Bennett series. When an F.B.I. abduction specialist disappears, Bennett goes outside his jurisdiction. 9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design. 10. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford A former poet laureate grapples with inherited trauma and connects with past generations of women in her family. 11. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960's becomes a star on a TV cooking show. 12. Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra As America entry World War II, an Italian woman who became an associate producer in Hollywood navigates personal and professional calamities. 13. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. 14. Reckoning by Catherine Coulter The 26th book in the F.B.I. thriller series. Savich and Sherlock are enlisted to protect women with traumatic pasts. 15. Black Dog by Stuart Woods The 62nd book in the Stone Barrington series. Stone meets a socialite with ties to a nefarious enemy. ©2022 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 21, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 6, 2022. L.E. Smoot Memorial Library 9533 Kings Hwy King George, Virginia 22485 (540) 775-2147 www.smoot.org