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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
December 6, 2020

1. Rhythm of War
by Brandon Sanderson

The fourth book in the Stormlight Archive series. Technological discoveries and an ensuing arms race change how a war is fought.
2. Daylight
by David Baldacci

The F.B.I. agent Atlee Pine's search for her twin sister overlaps with a military investigator's hunt for someone involved in a global conspiracy.
3. A Time for Mercy
by John Grisham

The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
4. The Law of Innocence
by Michael Connelly

The sixth book in the Mickey Haller series. Haller defends himself when police find the body of a former client in his car's trunk.
5. The Return
by Nicholas Sparks

A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
6. All That Glitters
by Danielle Steel

Just as Coco is about to graduate from Columbia, tragic events in her family send her on a journey of self-discovery.
7. The Sentinel
by Lee Child and Andrew Child

Jack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy.
8. Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven
by Janet Evanovich

The 27th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Stephanie deals with a soldier of fortune from Little Havana.
9. Tom Clancy: Shadow of the Dragon
by Marc Cameron

A missing scientist, strange noises under the Arctic ice and a mole who infiltrated American intelligence bedevil President Jack Ryan.
10. Piece of My Heart
by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

As their wedding approaches, a television producer and her fiancée must search for his missing 7-year-old nephew.
11. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
by Halsey

A debut collection of poems by the Grammy Award-nominated musician.
12. The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett

The 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.
13. Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens

In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
14. Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman

A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house.
15. Marauder: A Novel of the Oregon Files
by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison

The 15th book in the Oregon Files series. A billionaire's dying wish bestows a paralyzing chemical to a terrorist group.
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A version of this list appears in the December 6, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending November 21, 2020.
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