New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2021

The current #1 New York Times Fiction Best Seller is Call Us What We Carry written by Amanda Gorman . This book has been in the list for one week and listed as #1 best seller for one week

There are 38 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2021. The Four Winds written by Kristin Hannah is listed as the #1 best seller for 5 weeks.

There are 225 books in the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2021 list. The Midnight Library written by Matt Haig is in this list for 42 weeks.

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Current New York Times Best Seller List

1. Call Us What We Carry

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Am a Gorman
Release date: Dec 07, 2021
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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

Weeks on the list: 8

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 19, 2021
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The second book in the Whistler series. Investigator Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.

3. Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone

Weeks on the list: 3

by: Diana Gabaldon
Release date: Nov 23, 2021
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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.

4. The Lincoln Highway

Weeks on the list: 10

by: Amor Towles
Release date: Jan 01, 2021
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Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.

5. Wish You Were Here

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Jodi Picoult
Release date: Nov 30, 2021
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Diana O’Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.

6. It Ends With Us

Weeks on the list: 26

by: Colleen Hoover
Release date: Aug 02, 2016
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A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.

7. The Stranger In The Lifeboat

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Mitch Albom
Release date: Nov 02, 2021
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After a ship explodes, nine people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.

8. The Wish

Weeks on the list: 11

by: Nicholas Sparks
Release date: Sep 28, 2021
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Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.

9. Fear No Evil

Weeks on the list: 3

by: James Patterson
Release date: Nov 22, 2021
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The 29th book in the Alex Cross series. Cross fights the mastermind who has stalked him for years.

10. The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo

Weeks on the list: 24

by: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Release date: May 29, 2018
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A movie icon recounts stories of her loves and career to a struggling magazine writer.

11. Cloud Cuckoo Land

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Anthony Doerr
Release date: Sep 28, 2021
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An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.

12. The Dark Hours

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Michael Connelly
Release date: Nov 09, 2021
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A death on New Year’s Eve, an unsolved murder and a hunt for serial rapists bring Bosch and Ballard back together.

13. Mercy

Weeks on the list: 4

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Nov 16, 2021
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The fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. Atlee discovers her twin sister survived an abduction at the age of 6.

14. Autopsy

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Patricia Cornwell
Release date: Nov 30, 2021
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The 25th book in the Kay Scarpetta series. Scarpetta investigates crime scenes in Virginia and outer space.

15. The Midnight Library

Weeks on the list: 45

by: Matt Haig
Release date: Oct 20, 2020
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Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.

#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2021

1. The Four Winds

Weeks listed as #1: 5

by: Kristin Hannah
Release date: Feb 02, 2021
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As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.

2. The Duke And I

Weeks listed as #1: 4

by: Julia Quinn
Release date: Apr 28, 2015
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The first book in the Bridgerton series. Daphne Bridgerton’s reputation soars when she colludes with the Duke of Hastings. The basis of the Netflix series “Bridgerton.”

3. The Last Thing He Told Me

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Laura Dave
Release date: May 04, 2021
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Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

4. A Time For Mercy

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 13, 2020
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The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.

5. The Hill We Climb

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Am a Gorman
Release date: Jan 01, 2021
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The poem read on President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.

6. The President’s Daughter

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Bill Clinton James Patterson
Release date: Jun 07, 2021
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Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage daughter.

7. Billy Summers

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Stephen King
Release date: Aug 03, 2021
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A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job.

8. Apples Never Fall

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Liane Moriarty
Release date: Sep 14, 2021
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The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother.

9. Wish You Were Here

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jodi Picoult
Release date: Nov 30, 2021
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Diana O’Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.

10. Call Us What We Carry

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Am a Gorman
Release date: Dec 07, 2021
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A debut collection of poems on identity and history by the presidential inaugural poet who wrote “The Hill We Climb.”

11. The Russian

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson James O. Born
Release date: Jan 25, 2021
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The 13th book in the Michael Bennett series. An assassin killing a number of women might disrupt the detective’s wedding plans.

12. A Court Of Silver Flames

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Sarah J. Maas
Release date: Feb 16, 2021
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The fifth book in A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Nesta Archeron is forced into close quarters with a warrior named Cassian.

13. Life After Death

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Sister Souljah
Release date: Mar 02, 2021
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In a sequel to “The Coldest Winter Ever,” Winter Santiaga emerges after time served and seeks revenge.

14. Win

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Harlan Coben
Release date: Mar 16, 2021
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Windsor Horne Lockwood III might rectify cold cases connected to his family that have eluded the F.B.I. for decades.

15. Ocean Prey

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John S ford
Release date: Apr 13, 2021
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The 31st book in the Prey series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.

16. A Gambling Man

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Apr 20, 2021
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Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.

17. Sooley

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John Grisham
Release date: Apr 27, 2021
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Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.

18. 21St Birthday

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: May 03, 2021
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The 21st book in the Women’s Murder Club series. New evidence changes the investigation of a missing mother.

19. While Justice Sleeps

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Stacey Abrams
Release date: May 11, 2021
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When Justice Wynn slips into a coma, his law clerk, Avery Keene, must unravel the clues of a controversial case.

20. Legacy

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nora Roberts
Release date: May 25, 2021
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Threats put in rhymes and sent from shifting locations escalate as the daughter of a successful fitness celebrity’s own yoga business grows.

21. Freed

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: E.L. James
Release date: Jun 01, 2021
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The final chapter of the Fifty Shades as Told by Christian trilogy delves into the wedding between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele.

22. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Quentin Tarantino
Release date: Jun 29, 2021
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A novelization of the film set in 1969, by its director and screenwriter.

23. The Paper Palace

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Mir a Cowley Heller
Release date: Jan 01, 2021
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After an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband and her childhood love.

24. The Cellist

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Daniel Silva
Release date: Jul 13, 2021
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The 21st book in the Gabriel Allon series. A private intelligence service plans an act of violence that will aid Russia and divide America.

25. Black Ice

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Brad Thor
Release date: Jul 20, 2021
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The 20th book in the Scot Harvath series. The American spy faces dangers in the Arctic Circle.

26. Bloodless

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Douglas Preston Lincoln Child
Release date: Aug 17, 2021
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The 20th book in the Pendergast series. Bodies found without blood in their veins might be connected to an unsolved skyjacking.

27. The Madness Of Crowds

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Louise Penny
Release date: Aug 24, 2021
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The 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Gamache is tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose views are repulsive to him.

28. A Slow Fire Burning

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Paula Hawkins
Release date: Aug 31, 2021
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Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat.

29. Forgotten In Death

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: J.D. Robb
Release date: Sep 07, 2021
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The 53rd book of the In Death series. The property where a decades-old crime occurred belongs to the homicide detective Eve Dallas’s husband.

30. The Wish

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nicholas Sparks
Release date: Sep 28, 2021
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Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.

31. State Of Terror

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Hillary Rodham Clinton Louise Penny
Release date: Oct 12, 2021
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In the wake of the previous administration’s mishandling of international affairs, the new Secretary of State Ellen Adams confronts interconnected global threats.

32. The Lincoln Highway

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Amor Towles
Release date: Jan 01, 2021
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Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.

33. The Judge’s List

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 19, 2021
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The second book in the Whistler series. Investigator Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.

34. Better Off Dead

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Lee Child Andrew Child
Release date: Oct 26, 2021
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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.

35. Game On

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Janet Evanovich
Release date: Nov 02, 2021
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The 28th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Diesel and Stephanie track the international computer hacker Oswald Wednesday.

36. The Dark Hours

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Michael Connelly
Release date: Nov 09, 2021
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A death on New Year’s Eve, an unsolved murder and a hunt for serial rapists bring Bosch and Ballard back together.

37. Mercy

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Nov 16, 2021
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The fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. Atlee discovers her twin sister survived an abduction at the age of 6.

38. Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Diana Gabaldon
Release date: Nov 23, 2021
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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.

Last updated on December 21, 2021