As an avid reader of fiction (and an author who one day hopes to make the list) I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE checking out the New York Times Best Seller list. So, here it is… The independently ranked top 10 Fiction selections for August 2020!

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#1 Deadlock
by Catherine Coulter
The 24th book in the F.B.I. Thriller series. A young wife, a psychopath and three red boxes puzzle agents Savich and Sherlock.
#2 1st Case
by James Patterson
After getting kicked out of M.I.T., Angela Hoot interns with the F.B.I. and tracks the murderous siblings known as the Poet and the Engineer.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 The Order
by Daniel Silva
The 20th book in the Gabriel Allon series. The art restorer and spy cuts his family’s vacation short to investigate whether Pope Paul VII was murdered.
#6 Near Dark
by Brad Thor
The 19th book in the Scot Harvath series. With a bounty on his head, Harvath makes an alliance with a Norwegian intelligence operative.
#7 The Guest List
by Lucy Foley
A wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly.
#8 28 Summers
by Elin Hilderbrand
A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president.
#9 Then She Was Gone
by Lisa Jewell
Ten years after her daughter disappears, a woman tries to get her life in order but remains haunted by unanswered questions.
#10 American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.
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