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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers July 16, 2023  
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             | 		1. The Five-Star Weekend		 by Elin HilderbrandAfter a tragedy, a popular food blogger brings friends from distinct times in her life to spend a weekend in Nantucket.  |  
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  | 		2. Happy Place		 by Emily HenryA former couple pretend to be together for the sake of their friends during their annual getaway in Maine.  |  
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  | 		3. Fourth Wing		 by Rebecca YarrosViolet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.  |  
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  | 		4. Lessons in Chemistry		 by Bonnie GarmusA scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.  |  
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  | 		5. The Covenant of Water		 by Abraham VergheseThree generations of a family living on South India's Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.  |  
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  | 		6. Palazzo		 by Danielle SteelChallenges arise when a young woman takes over her family's haute couture Italian leather brand and 400-year-old palazzo in Venice.  |  
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  | 		7. Demon Copperhead		 by Barbara KingsolverWinner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.  |  
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  | 		8. Zero Days		 by Ruth WareA security system tester must elude the police to find the person who killed her partner in marriage and in crime.  |  
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  | 		9. The Only One Left		 by Riley SagerIn 1983, a mute woman confined to a wheelchair types out her side of the story about a family massacre to her home-health aide.  |  
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  | 		10. Hello Beautiful		 by Ann NapolitanoIn an homage to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a young man's dark past resurfaces as he gets to know the family of his college sweetheart.  |  
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  | 		11. Cross Down		 by James Patterson and Brendan DuBoisJohn Sampson seeks justice after Alex Cross gets injured.  |  
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  | 		13. Lady Tan's Circle of Women		 by Lisa SeeTan Yunxian learns the pillars of Chinese medicine from her grandmother but is sent into an arranged marriage and pressured by her mother-in-law.  |  
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  | 		14. The First Ladies		 by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher MurrayThe first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune work together for justice and equality.  |  
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  | 		15.  Identity		 by Nora RobertsAfter her roommate is killed by a con artist, a former Army brat builds a new life at her mother's home in Vermont.  |  
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