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 October 2019!

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#1 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.
#2 The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
In a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” old secrets bring three women together as a Republic of Gilead’s theocratic regime shows signs of decay.
#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 Land of Wolves
by Craig Johnson
The 15th book in the Longmire series. Back from Mexico, Sheriff Longmire must deal with a wolf and a killer on the looses.
#5 The Goldfinich
by Donna Tartt
A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.
#6 The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
In the Republic of Gilead’s dystopian future, men and women perform the services assigned to them.
#7 IT
by Stephen King
The fears of seven teenagers are rekindled in their adult lives by the terrifying title character. Originally published in 1986.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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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