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New York Time Best sellers of Fiction / Historical: Babel (2023), Lessons In Chemistry (2022), The Four Winds (2021), A Gambling Man (2021), The Lincoln Highway (2021) and other 233 books.

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Babel

by: R.F. Kuang
released in: 2023
Babel
In 1828, Robin Swift studies at Oxford University\'s Royal Institute of Translation and faces a choice when Britain pursues a war with China.
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Lessons In Chemistry

by: Bonnie Garmus
released in: 2022
Lessons In Chemistry
A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
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The Four Winds

by: Kristin Hannah
released in: 2021
The Four Winds
As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.
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A Gambling Man

by: David Baldacci
released in: 2021
A Gambling Man
Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.
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The Lincoln Highway

by: Amor Towles
released in: 2021
The Lincoln Highway
Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.
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Royal

by: Danielle Steel
released in: 2021
Royal
In 1943, the 17-year-old Princess Charlotte assumes a new identity in the country and falls in love.
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The Maid

by: Nita Prose
released in: 2021
The Maid
When a wealthy man is found dead in his room, a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel becomes a lead suspect.
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To Paradise

by: Hanya Yanagihara
released in: 2021
To Paradise
Difficult circumstances and societal pressures affect characters living in America in 1893, 1993 and 2093.
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All Good People Here

by: Ashley Flowers,  Alex Kiester
released in: 2021
All Good People Here
A journalist who returns to her hometown vows to find a missing girl and solve a 20-year-old cold case.
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The Vanishing Half

by: Brit Bennett
released in: 2020
The Vanishing Half
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.
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Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone

by: Diana Gabaldon
released in: 2020
Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone
The ninth book in the Outlander series. As the Revolutionary War moves closer to Fraser\'s Ridge, Claire and Jamie reunite with their daughter and her family.
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The Paris Apartment

by: Lucy Foley
released in: 2020
The Paris Apartment
Jess has suspicions about her half-brother\'s neighbors when he goes missing.
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The Mirror & The Light

by: Hilary Mantel
released in: 2020
The Mirror & The Light
The third book in the Wolf Hall trilogy. After Anne Boleyn\'s execution, Thomas Cromwell\'s enemies assemble.
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The Evening And The Morning

by: Ken Follett
released in: 2020
The Evening And The Morning
In a prequel to “The Pillars of the Earth,” a boatbuilder, a Norman noblewoman and a monk live in England under attack by the Welsh and the Vikings.
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A World Of Curiosities

by: Louise Penny
released in: 2020
A World Of Curiosities
The 18th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. When an attic room that was sealed off 160 years ago is opened, an old enemy returns.
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The Water Dancer

by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
released in: 2019
The Water Dancer
A young man who was gifted with a mysterious power becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved.
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Summer Of '69

by: Elin Hilderbrand
released in: 2019
Summer Of '69
The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
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Year One

by: Nora Roberts
released in: 2019
Year One
When a pandemic strikes and the world spins into chaos, several travelers head west to find a new life.
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Daisy Jones & The Six

by: Taylor Jenkins Reid
released in: 2019
Daisy Jones & The Six
A fictional oral history charting the rise and fall of a \'70s rock \'n\' roll band.
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Where The Crawdads Sing

by: Delia Owens
released in: 2018
Where The Crawdads Sing
In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
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The Great Alone

by: Kristin Hannah
released in: 2018
The Great Alone
A former prisoner of war returns from Vietnam and moves his family to Alaska, where they face tough conditions.
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The Women

by: Kristin Hannah
released in: 2018
The Women
In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America.
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Fire And Blood

by: George RR Martin
released in: 2018
Fire And Blood
Set 300 years before the events of “A Game of Thrones,” this is the first volume of the two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.
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The Escape Artist

by: Brad Meltzer
released in: 2018
The Escape Artist
Nola Brown, a painter and trained soldier, discovers a military secret that traces back to Harry Houdini.
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Circe

by: Madeline Miller
released in: 2018
Circe
Zeus banishes Helios\' daughter to an island, where she must choose between living with gods or mortals.
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Before We Were Yours

by: Lisa Wingate
released in: 2017
Before We Were Yours
A prominent South Carolina lawyer, researching her grandmother\'s past, learns about a Tennessee orphanage that kidnapped children and placed them for adoption with wealthy people. Based on a real-life scandal.
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The Mistress

by: Danielle Steel
released in: 2017
The Mistress
The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch falls in love with an artist and yearns for freedom.
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Lincoln In The Bardo

by: George Saunders
released in: 2017
Lincoln In The Bardo
Visiting the grave of his recently deceased young son in 1862, Lincoln encounters a cemetery full of ghosts.
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House Of Spies

by: Daniel Silva
released in: 2017
House Of Spies
Gabriel Allon, the Israeli art restorer and spy, now the head of Israel\'s secret intelligence service, pursues an ISIS mastermind
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A Column Of Fire

by: Ken Follett
released in: 2017
A Column Of Fire
The lovers Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict between English Catholics and Protestants while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.
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Small Great Things

by: Jodi Picoult
released in: 2017
Small Great Things
A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.
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The Underground Railroad

by: Colson Whitehead
released in: 2016
The Underground Railroad
A teenage girl heads north on the network that helped slaves escape to freedom, envisioned in this novel as a secret system of actual tracks and tunnels.
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The Black Widow

by: Daniel Silva
released in: 2016
The Black Widow
Gabriel Allon, the Israeli art restorer and spy, recruits and trains a doctor from Jerusalem to help capture a secret ISIS terrorist in France.
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March: Book Three

by: John Lewis,  Andrew Aydin
released in: 2016
March: Book Three
Representative John Lewis concludes his memoir of the civil rights movement in this volume, which depicts the Selma March.
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Cometh The Hour

by: Jeffrey Archer
released in: 2016
Cometh The Hour
The sixth and penultimate book of the Clifton Chronicles brings the Cliftons and the Barringtons into the 1970s.
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The Gangster

by: Clive Cussler,  Justin Scott
released in: 2016
The Gangster
In the ninth book in this series, set in 1906, the New York detective Isaac Bell contends with a crime boss passing as a respectable businessman and a tycoon\'s plot against President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Commonwealth

by: Ann Patchett
released in: 2016
Commonwealth
Five decades in the lives of two families — parents, children, siblings, stepchildren — remade by divorce.
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Portrait Of An Unknown Woman

by: Daniel Silva
released in: 2016
Portrait Of An Unknown Woman
The 22nd book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon becomes an art forger to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud.
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The Collector

by: Daniel Silva
released in: 2016
The Collector
The 23rd book in the Gabriel Allon series. The art restorer teams up with a thief to find a missing painting and works to prevent a conflict between Russia and the West.
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Edge Of Eternity

by: Ken Follett
released in: 2015
Edge Of Eternity
Five interrelated families grapple with the events of the 1960s through the 1980s; Book 3 of the Century Trilogy.
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