New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers November 28, 2021 1. 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. 2. The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly A death on New Year's Eve, an unsolved murder and a hunt for serial rapists bring Bosch and Ballard back together. 3. 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. 4. The Wish by Nicholas Sparks Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas. 5. Never by Ken Follett Tensions escalate around the globe as President Pauline Green works to prevent a world war. 6. 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. 7. 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 8. 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. 9. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich A woman released from prison deals with the ghost of an annoying customer haunting a bookstore in Minneapolis during a contentious time. 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. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future. 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. 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. 14. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother. 15. 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. © 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 28, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending November 13, 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