Fiction Best Sellers

Fiction Best Sellers: Week of May 26, 2019

  1. 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.

  2. THE 18TH ABDUCTION by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The 18th book in the Women's Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer investigates the disappearance of three female teachers.

  3. BLESSING IN DISGUISE by Danielle Steel. Isabelle McAvoy faces challenges as she raises three daughters from three separate fathers on her own.

  4. REDEMPTION by David Baldacci. The fifth book in the Memory Man series. The first man Amos Decker put behind bars asks to have his name cleared.

  5. SUNSET BEACH by Mary Kay Andrews. Drue Campbell inherits a run-down beach bungalow and takes a job at her estranged father’s personal injury attorney office.

  6. STORM CURSED by Patricia Briggs. The 11th book in the Mercy Thompson series. Dangers swell as Death approaches.

  7. THE ROAD HOME by Richard Paul Evans. The third book in the Broken Road series. Charles James continues his journey on Route 66 to his ultimate destination.

  8. THE BIG KAHUNA by Janet Evanovich and Peter Evanovich. The sixth book in the Fox and O’Hare series. An F.B.I. agent teams up with a con man to search for a Silicon Valley billionaire.

  9. NEON PREY by John Sandford. The 29th book in the Prey series. Lucas Davenport goes after a serial killer.

  10. THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake. Evie Milton uncovers a story going back a couple generations that may shatter a family myth.

  11. LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly. In 1914, the New York socialite Eliza Ferriday works to help White Russian families escape from the revolution. 

  12. NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney. The connection between a high school star athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they go to Trinity College in Dublin.

  13. THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides. Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband. 

  14. FIRE AND BLOOD by George R.R. Martin. The first volume of the two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros. 

  15. EXHALATION by Ted Chiang. Nine short stories including “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” and “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.” 


     
      Excerpted from The New York Times Best Seller lists