New York Times Fiction Bestsellers
Week of January 16th (list limited to titles available at the library)
1.
The Vanishing Half
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.
2.
The Scorpion’s Tail
The second book in the Nora Kelly series. An F.B.I. agent and an archaeologist identify a mummified corpse and its gruesome cause of death.
3.
Neighbors
A Hollywood recluse’s perspective changes when she invites her neighbors into her mansion after an earthquake.
5.
The Midnight Library
Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
6.
Where The Crawdads Sing
In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
7.
The Invisible Life Of Addie Larue
A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
8.
Anxious People
A failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house.
9.
The Return
A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
10.
A Time For Mercy
The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
11.
Ready Player Two
In a sequel to “Ready Player One,” Wade Watts discovers a technological advancement and goes on a new quest.
12.
Hamnet
An imagined exploration of how the death of an 11-year-old boy to the Black Plague in 1596 might have affected a famous playwright and his wife.
13.
Outlawed
Ada, who apprentices midwifery under her mother, must decide whether to aid a band of outlaws who want to create a safe haven for outcast women.
14.
Deadly Cross
The 28th book in the Alex Cross series. An investigation of a double homicide sends Alex Cross to Alabama.
15.
The Guest List
A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly.