New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
February 6, 2022

1. The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig

Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
2. The Maid
by Nita Prose

When a wealthy man is found dead in his room, a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel becomes a lead suspect.
3. The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles

Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.
4. The Horsewoman
by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

As the Paris Olympics draw near, a mother and daughter, who are champion horse riders, compete against each other.
5. One Step Too Far
by Lisa Gardner

The second book in the Frankie Elkin series. Frankie searches for a young man who went missing during a bachelor party camping trip.
6. The Last Thing He Told Me
by Laura Dave

Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
7. The Judge's List
by John Grisham

The second book in the Whistler series. Investigator Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.
8. The Stranger in the Lifeboat
by Mitch Albom

After a ship explodes, 10 people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.
9. Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult

Diana O'Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galapagos Islands.
10. To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara

Difficult circumstances and societal pressures affect characters living in America in 1893, 1993 and 2093.
11. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
by Amanda Gorman

A debut collection of poems on identity and history by the presidential inaugural poet who wrote The Hill We Climb.
12. Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr

An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.
13. Something to Hide
by Elizabeth George

The 21st book in the Inspector Lynley series. Lynley pursues a killer who might be hiding in North London's Nigerian community.
14. The Wish
by Nicholas Sparks

Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.
15. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon

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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A version of this list appears in the February 6, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending January 22, 2022.
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