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#2 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 101 week(s).

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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...

2) The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo: a novel

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Reid, Taylor Jenkins

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#4 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 143 week(s).

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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...

3) The housemaid

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McFadden, Freida

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#5 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 32 week(s).

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Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of...

4) A little life: a novel

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Yanagihara, Hanya

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#8 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).

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"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body...

5) The silent patient

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Michaelides, Alex

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#9 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).

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Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, living in a posh area of London. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word.

6) The nightingale

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Hannah, Kristin

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#10 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. It has been on the list for 81 week(s).

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"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...

7) It ends with us

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Hoover, Colleen

Series

It ends with us volume 2

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#11 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 135 week(s).

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"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 neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be...

8) Verity

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Hoover, Colleen

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#12 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 121 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...

9) House of earth and blood: a Crescent City novel

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Maas, Sarah J

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Crescent City volume 1

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#14 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion -- otherwise known as Crescent City -- has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city -- and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks...

10) It starts with us: a novel

Author

Hoover, Colleen

Series

It ends with us volume 2

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#15 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2023-12-17. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 56 week(s).

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"Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life--and Atlas Corrigan is the...