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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers May 16, 2021
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| 1. Sooley by John GrishamSamuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan. |
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| 3. Finding Ashley by Danielle SteelTwo estranged sisters, one a former best-selling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up. |
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| 4. A Gambling Man by David BaldacciAloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town. |
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| 5. The Four Winds by Kristin HannahAs dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West. |
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| 6. The Midnight Library by Matt HaigNora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. |
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| 7. Ocean Prey by John SandfordThe 31st book in the Prey series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters. |
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| 8. Whereabouts by Jhumpa LahiriA woman who feels lost in life finds solace in the city she calls home and gets a new outlook while visiting the sea. |
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| 11. A Distant Shore by Karen KingsburyA secret agent with the F.B.I. and a young woman betrothed by her father to a drug lord pretend to be in love for a mission. |
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| 12. 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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| 13. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroAn "Artificial Friend" named Klara is purchased to serve as a companion to an ailing 14-year-old girl. |
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| 14. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha WellsThe sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series. When a dead body turns up on Preservation Station, Murderbot must speak to humans. |
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