New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
November 21, 2021

1. The Stranger in the Lifeboat
by Mitch Albom

After a ship explodes, nine people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.
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. Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
by Janet Evanovich

The 28th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Diesel and Stephanie track the international computer hacker Oswald Wednesday
4. Better Off Dead
by Lee Child and Andrew Child

The 26th book in the Jack Reacher series. Reacher helps an F.B.I. agent look for her missing brother and takes on a foe named Dendoncker.
5. The Wish
by Nicholas Sparks

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

An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.
8. 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.
9. Apples Never Fall
by Liane Moriarty

The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother.
10. Our Country Friends
by Gary Shteyngart

Betrayals emerge and romances develop when eight friends wait out the pandemic in a country house.
11. The Family
by Naomi Krupitsky

A rift grows between Sofia Colicchio and Antonia Russo, two daughters of the Italian Mafia, as they enter adulthood in Brooklyn.
12. 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.
13. Billy Summers
by Stephen King

A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job.
14. 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.
15. Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout

Lucy Barton joins her ex-husband on a trip to look into a family secret.
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A version of this list appears in the November 21, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending November 6, 2021.
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