New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers January 9, 2022 1. 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. 2. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom After a ship explodes, 10 people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea. 3. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman A debut collection of poems on identity and history by the presidential inaugural poet who wrote The Hill We Climb. 4. The Wish by Nicholas Sparks Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas. 5. 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. 6. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone  by Diana Gabaldon 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. 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. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult Diana O'Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galapagos Islands. 9. 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. 10. Billy Summers by Stephen King A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job. 11. Fear No Evil by James Patterson The 29th book in the Alex Cross series. Cross fights the mastermind who has stalked him for years. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. Mercy by David Baldacci The fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. Atlee discovers her twin sister survived an abduction at the age of 6. 15. 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. © 2022 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 January 9, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending December 25, 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