The New York Times Best Sellers (Fiction) October 20, 2019

List: 01. BLOODY GENIUS by John Sandford 02. THE WATER DANCER by Ta-Nehisi Coates 03. THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King 04. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens 05. THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett 06. THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood 07. VINCE FLYNN: LETHAL AGENT by Kyle Mills, Emily Bestler 08. THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah 09. A MRS. MIRACLE CHRISTMAS by Debbie Macomber 10. CILKA’S JOURNEY by Heather Morris 11. THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris 12. THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood 13. FULL THROTTLE by Joe Hill 14. HOLY GHOST by John Sandford 15. THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review). At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . . and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among this group of wildly impassioned, diametrically opposed zealots lurks a killer, and it will be up to Virgil to sort the murderer from the mere maniacs.