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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
October 21, 2018

1. A Spark of Light
by Jodi Picoult

The lives of patients, doctors and activists intersect when a gunman holds them all hostage in a woman's health center in Mississippi.
2. Vince Flynn: Red War
by Kyle Mills

When the Russian prime minister plots to invade the Baltics, only Mitch Rapp can stop him.
3. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
by Hank Green

After posting a video that goes viral, April May must deal with the pressures of becoming an internet sensation.
4. Alaskan Holiday
by Debbie Macomber

A Seattleite cook stuck in remote Ponder, Alaska, grapples with her feelings for the local swordsmith.
5. Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat
by Anne Rice

The latest in the Vampire Chronicles series details Prince Lestat's reign over the vampire world.
6. Juror #3
by James Patterson and Nancy Allen

Ruby Bozarth defends a college football star charged in a felony case complicated by a second murder.
7. Lethal White
by Robert Galbraith

The fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series. Detectives Strike and Ellacott investigate a crime a young man may have witnessed as a child; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.
8. Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens

In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
9. Uncompromising Honor
by David Weber

The 19th book in the Honor Harrington series. The Star Kingdom's Grand Fleet commander takes on the Solarian League's corrupt leaders and its navy.
10. War of the Wolf
by Bernard Cornwell

The Saxon Tales series continues as Uhtred of Beddanburg fights a new foe who controls an army of wolf-warriors and wants to rule Northumbria.
11. Transcription
by Kate Atkinson

Ten years later, figures from a BBC radio producer's past as an M15 recruit in 1940 confront her. 
12. Time's Convert
by Deborah Harkness

During his lover's journey to immortality, a vampire's past returns to haunt them both.
13. Shadow Tyrants
by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison

Juan Cabrillo and his crew fight two destructive adversaries.
14. The Outsider
by Stephen King

A detective investigates a seemingly wholesome member of the community when an 11-year-old boy's body is found.
15. In His Father's Footsteps
by Danielle Steel

The son of two Holocaust survivors struggles to become his own person after his marriage falls apart.
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A version of this list appears in the October 21, 2018 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 6, 2018.


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