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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers January 19, 2020
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| 1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensIn 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 Guardians by John GrishamCullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister, antagonizes some ruthless killers when he takes on a wrongful conviction case. |
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| 3. Such a Fun Age by Kiley ReidTumult ensues when Alix Chamberlain's babysitter is mistakenly accused of kidnapping her charge. |
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| 4. The Silent Patient by Alex MichaelidesTheo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband. |
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| 5.The Dutch House by Ann PatchettA sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades. |
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| 6. Criss Cross by James PattersonThe 27th book in the Alex Cross series. Copycat crimes make the detective question whether an innocent man was executed. |
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| 7. The Institute by Stephen KingChildren with special talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods. |
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| 8. The Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesIn Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books. |
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| 9. A Minute to Midnight by David BaldacciWhen Atlee Pine returns to her hometown to investigate her sister's kidnapping from 30 years ago, she winds up tracking a potential serial killer. |
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| 11. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi CoatesA young man who was gifted with a mysterious power becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved. |
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| 12. The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodIn a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, old secrets bring three women together as the Republic of Gilead's theocratic regime shows signs of decay. |
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| 13. Olive, Again by Elizabeth StroutIn a follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge, new relationships, including a second marriage, are encountered in a seaside town in Maine. |
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| 14. The Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternZachary Ezra Rawlins fights to save a labyrinthine underground repository of stories. |
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| 15. Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet EvanovichThe 26th book in the Stephanie Plum series. A New Jersey gangster's associates go after a bounty hunter's widowed grandmother. |
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