New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
May 30, 2021

1. While Justice Sleeps
by Stacey Abrams

When Justice Wynn slips into a coma, his law clerk, Avery Keene, must unravel the clues of a controversial case.
2. Sooley
by John Grisham

Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
3. 21st Birthday
by  James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

The 21st book in the Women's Murder Club series. New evidence changes the investigation of a missing mother.
4. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
by Amanda Gorman

The poem read on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.
5. That Summer
by Jennifer Weiner

Daisy Shoemaker receives emails intended for a woman leading a more glamorous life and finds there was more to this accident.
6. Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir

Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. A Gambling Man
by David Baldacci

Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.
10. The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah

As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.
11. The Devil May Dance
by Jake Tapper

The second book in the Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery series. Attorney General Robert Kennedy asks the Marders to look into a threat, which brings them into contact with the Rat Pack and the Church of Scientology.
12. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab

A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
13. Finding Ashley
by Danielle Steel

Two estranged sisters, one a former best-selling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.
14. The Summer of Lost and Found
by Mary Alice Monroe

The seventh book in the Beach House series. A love triangle is complicated by Covid-19.
15. The Newcomer
by Mary Kay Andrews

After discovering her sister dead, Letty Carnahan drives away with her niece and find potential trouble with a police detective at a Florida motel. 
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A version of this list appears in the May 30, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 15, 2021.
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