New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers October 17, 2021 1. The Wish by Nicholas Sparks Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas. 2. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future. 3. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother. 4. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Ray Carney, a family man who sells furniture on 125th Street, gets a new clientele made up of vicious and unsavory characters. 5. The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik The second book in the Scholomance series. Will students now in their senior year make it out alive? 6. The Jailhouse Lawyer by James Patterson and Nancy Allen A young lawyer winds up in an Alabama jail that remains mysteriously crowded. 7. Bewilderment by Richard Powers An astrobiologist and single father learns of a neurofeedback treatment that may improve his son's emotional control. 8. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman The second book in the Thursday Murder Club series. A ruthless murderer is out to get four septuagenarian friends. 9. Billy Summers by Stephen King A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job. 10. The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews A recently divorced woman searching the pockets of an old Santa suit finds a child's wish that her father return from war. 11. 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. 12. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney A novelist, a warehouse worker, an editorial assistant, and a political adviser deal with changes. 13. Vince Flynn: Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills Anthony Cook, an autocratic president, distrusts Mitch Rapp, who is working to uncover a traitor. 14. 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. 15. A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat.. © 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 This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.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 October 17, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 2, 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