NY Times Best Seller List

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

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THE INSTITUTE, by Stephen King. 
Children with special talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods.
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2

THE TESTAMENTS, by Margaret Atwood. 
In a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” old secrets bring three women together as the Republic of Gilead’s theocratic regime shows signs of decay.
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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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4

THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. 
A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.
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5

THE TITANIC SECRET, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. 
The 11th book in the Isaac Bell series. Dirk Pitt finds a document that brings a mystery from 1911 back to life.
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KILLER INSTINCT, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. 
The second book in the Instinct series. When an act of terror strikes New York, Dr. Reinhart and Detective Needham go after a sociopath.
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THE HANDMAID'S TALE, by Margaret Atwood. 
Men and women in a dystopian future. The basis of the Hulu series; originally published in 1985.
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8

VENDETTA IN DEATH, by JD Robb. 
The 49th book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas looks into the misdeeds of a wealthy businessman while a vigilante named Lady Justice uses disguises to avenge women who were wronged.
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9

IT, by Stephen King. 
The fears of seven teenagers are rekindled in their adult lives by the terrifying title character. Originally published in 1986.
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10

THE GIRL WHO LIVED TWICE, by David Lagercrantz. 
Mikael Blomkvist helps Lisbeth Salander put her past behind her in the latest installment of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.
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THE ORACLE, by Jonathan Cahn. 
A traveler discovers mysteries hidden behind seven locked doors.
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12

ROBERT B. PARKER'S THE BITTEREST PILL, by Reed Farrel Coleman. 
Police chief Jesse Stone must catch the perpetrators behind the opioid epidemic in the town of Paradise.
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13

A BETTER MAN, by Louise Penny. 
The 15th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. The search for a missing girl is imperiled by rising floodwaters across the province.
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14

THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, by Heather Morris. 
A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.
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15

LOOK ALIVE TWENTY-FIVE, by Janet Evanovich. 
The 25th book in the Stephanie Plum series. When several managers of a deli in Trenton disappear, a bounty hunter and her detective boyfriend look for clues.
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