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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers August 9, 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. Near Dark by Brad ThorThe 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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| 3. The Order by Daniel SilvaThe 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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| 4. The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe 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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| 5. 28 Summers by Elin HilderbrandA 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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| 6. The Guest List by Lucy FoleyA wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly.Book Annotation |
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| 7. Axiom's End by Lindsay EllisCora Sabino finds herself caught between her estranged whistle-blower father and the extraterrestrials who have been living here for decades. |
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| 8. Camino Winds by John GrishamThe 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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| 10. American dirt by Jeanine CumminsA bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel. |
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| 11. Sex and Vanity by Kevin KwanA 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. |
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| 13. If It Bleeds by Stephen KingFour novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat and If It Bleeds. |
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| 14. The Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueWhile war and the Great Flu ravages 1918 Dublin, three women help expectant mothers who have been quarantined in a hospital. |
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| 15. Big Summer by Jennifer WeinerDaphne Berg's former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod. |
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