New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
January 16, 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.
 
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2. 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.
 
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3. 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.
 
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4. 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.
 
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5. 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.
 
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6. Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr

An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.
 
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7. 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.
 
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8. The Wish
by Nicholas Sparks

Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.
 
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9. 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.
 
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10. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab

A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.
 
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11. Under the Whispering Door
by TJ Klune

When given seven days to cross over, Wallace tries to pack in a lifetime's worth of living in that week.
 
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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.
 
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13. Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney

A novelist, a warehouse worker, an editorial assistant and a political adviser deal with changes.
 
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14. A Slow Fire Burning
by Paula Hawkins

Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat.
 
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15. 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.
 
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A version of this list appears in the January 16, 2022 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending January 1, 2022.