#Theredheadedauthor Presents the May 2020 New York Times TOP 10 Best Sellers – FICTION

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 May 2020!

If you’ve read any of the TOP 10 selections and recommend them, please comment below and let me know. If you see something you like and plan to pick up a copy, you can do so by clicking on the cover image, the title or the [BUY IT HERE] button.

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#1 Masked Prey

by John Sandford

The 30th book in the Prey series. Washington politicians ask Lucas Davenport to look into someone who is targeting their children.


#2 Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.


#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 American Dirt

by Jeanine Cummins

A book seller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.


#5 The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.


#6 The Last Emperox

by John Scalzi

The third book in the Interdependency series. As an interstellar pathway collapses, Emperox Grayland II fights to save humanity.


#7 The Boy From the Woods

by Harlan Coben

When a girl goes missing, a private investigator’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.


#8 The Woman in the Window

by A.J. Finn

A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.


#9 The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

A concentration camp detainee tasked with permanently marking fellow prisoners falls in love with one of them.


#10 Savage Son

by Jack Carr

The third book in the Terminal List series. The Russian mafia targets a former Navy SEAL who is recovering from brain surgery.


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