New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
January 2, 2022

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The Wish
by Nicholas Sparks

Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr

An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.
9. Fear No Evil
by James Patterson

The 29th book in the Alex Cross series. Cross fights the mastermind who has stalked him for years.
10. 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.
11. Billy Summers
by Stephen King

A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job.
12. 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.
13. Mercy
by David Baldacci

The fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. Atlee discovers her twin sister survived an abduction at the age of 6.
14. Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir

Ryland Grace awakens from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.
15. State of Terror
by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

In the wake of the previous administration's mishandling of international affairs, the new Secretary of State Ellen Adams confronts interconnected global threats.
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A version of this list appears in the January 2, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending December 18, 2021.
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