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#1 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).

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"The newest, highly anticipated novel from beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous...

2) People we meet on vacation

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Henry, Emily

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#2 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"What happens when best friends with nothing in common come together, fall apart, and fall in love? The Vacationers meets When Harry Met Sally..., from the author of Beach Read When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home...

3) Where the crawdads sing

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Owens, Delia

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#3 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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Book, Audio, Book Discussion Kit, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...

4) The song of Achilles

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Miller, Madeline

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#4 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 42 week(s).

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Book, Playaway

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Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.

5) The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo: a novel

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Reid, Taylor Jenkins

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#5 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...

6) The guest list: a novel

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Foley, Lucy

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#6 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...

7) Beach read

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Henry, Emily

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#7 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 23 week(s).

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...

8) The silent patient

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Michaelides, Alex

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#8 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).

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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into...

9) Anxious people: a novel

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Backman, Fredrik

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#9 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.

10) CIRCE

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Miller, Madeline

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#10 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 61 week(s).

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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...

11) Verity

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Hoover, Colleen

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Audible Studios on BrillianceAudio

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#11 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...

12) The unhoneymooners

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Lauren, Christina

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#13 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion ... she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. Olive braces herself for...

13) Red, white & royal blue

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McQuiston, Casey

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#14 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2021-08-22. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 20 week(s).

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First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz, with his sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, are the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. Then photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids. The plan for damage control: stage a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex soon discovers that beneath Henry's Prince Charming...