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. © 2021 All rights reserved by New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.   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. Atlantic County Library System | 40 Farragut Avenue, Mays Landing, NJ 08330 Phone: (609) 625-2776 | www.atlanticlibrary.org        Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson Atlantic County Board of Commissioners, Maureen Kern, Chairwoman