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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers August 18, 2019
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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. One Good Deed by David BaldacciA World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail. |
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| 3. The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadTwo boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later. |
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| 4. The New Girl by Daniel SilvaGabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped. |
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| 5. Dark Age by Pierce BrownThe fifth book in the Red Rising series. |
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| 6. Summer of '69 by Elin HilderbrandThe Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface. |
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| 7. Labyrinth by Catherine CoulterThe 23rd book in the F.B.I. Thriller series. Agents Savich and Sherlock wend their way through a maze of lies to get to the bottom of a secret. |
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| 8. Chances Are by Richard RussoThree men in their 60s who met in college reunite on Martha's Vineyard, where mysterious events occurred in 1971. |
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| 9. Under Currents by Nora RobertsEchoes of a violent childhood reverberate for Zane Bigelow when he starts a new kind of family in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. |
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| 10. City of Girls by Elizabeth GilbertAn 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene. |
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| 11. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth KeaneThe lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades. |
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| 12. Someone We Know by Shari LapenaIn a quiet suburb, a teenager has been sneaking into homes and hacking into computers, while a woman is found murdered. |
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| 13. Window on the Bay by Debbie MacomberA single mom's life takes unexpected turns when her two children go off to college. |
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| 14. The Last House Guest by Megan MirandaAvery Greer must fight the clock to clear her name and uncover her friend's real killer. |
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| 15. Lady in the Lake by Laura LippmanIn 1966, a housewife becomes a reporter and investigates the killing of a black woman in Baltimore. |
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