NY Times Best Seller List

This Week
Combined Print and E-Book Fiction
 Weeks On List

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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.
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THE RETURN, by Nicholas Sparks. 
A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
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THE SEARCHER, by Tana French. 
After a divorce, a former Chicago police officer resettles in an Irish village where a boy goes missing.
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THE EVENING AND THE MORNING, by Ken Follett. 
In a prequel to “The Pillars of the Earth,” a boatbuilder, a Norman noblewoman and a monk live in England under attack by the Welsh and the Vikings.
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TROUBLES IN PARADISE, by Elin Hilderbrand. 
The final installment of the trilogy that includes “Winter in Paradise” and “What Happens in Paradise.”
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THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS, by Jodi Picoult. 
After surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist.
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THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE, by VE Schwab. 
A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
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8

RETURN TO VIRGIN RIVER, by Robyn Carr. 
The 21st book in the Virgin River series. Strangers help an author during the holidays.
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JINGLE ALL THE WAY, by Debbie Macomber. 
A December cruise in the Amazon fosters a potential change in priorities for a career-focused real-estate executive.
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10

INVISIBLE GIRL, by Lisa Jewell. 
An ex-schoolteacher accused of sexual misconduct lives near a family led by a child psychologist whose former patient goes missing.
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LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, by Rumaan Alam. 
A family vacation in an isolated part of Long Island is thrown into confusion when the home’s owners return claiming New York City is having a blackout.
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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.
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13

ANXIOUS PEOPLE, by Fredrik Backman. 
A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house.
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14

THE COAST-TO-COAST MURDERS, by James Patterson and JD Barker. 
A detective and an F.B.I. agent are baffled by a cross-country killing spree.
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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.
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