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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers November 17, 2019
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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. The Night Fire by Michael ConnellyHarry Bosch and Renée Ballard return to take up a case that held the attention of Bosch's mentor. |
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| 4. 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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| 5. Find Me by André AcimanYears after the events of Call Me by Your Name, Elio has become a classically trained pianist in Paris while Oliver is a New England college professor with a family. |
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| 6.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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| 7. The Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesIn Depression-era America, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books throughout the mountains of Kentucky. |
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| 8. 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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| 9. The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal with Lance RubinTwo high school freshmen dig into the dark underpinnings of their hometown and a local reform school in North Carolina. |
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| 10. The 19th Christmas by James Patterson and Maxine PaetroIn the 19th installment of the Women's Murder Club series, detective Lindsay Boxer and company take on a fearsome criminal known only as "Loman." |
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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 Deserter by Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMilleTwo members of the Criminal Investigation Division must bring back a Delta Force soldier who disappeared. |
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| 13. 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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| 14. Ninth House by Leigh BardugoAfter mysteriously surviving a multiple homicide, Galaxy Stern comes face to face with dark magic, murder and more at Yale University. |
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| 15. 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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