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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers January 31, 2021 |
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| 1. The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine. |
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| 2. The Scorpion's Tail by Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildThe second book in the Nora Kelly series. An F.B.I. agent and an archaeologist identify a mummified corpse and its gruesome cause of death. |
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| 3. Neighbors by Danielle SteelA Hollywood recluse's perspective changes when she invites her neighbors into her mansion after an earthquake. |
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| 5. The Midnight Library by Matt HaigNora 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. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensIn a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. |
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| 8. Anxious People by Fredrik BackmanA failed bank robber holds a group of strangers hostage at an apartment open house. |
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| 9. The Return by Nicholas SparksA doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life. |
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| 10. A Time for Mercy by John GrishamThe third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990. |
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| 11. Ready Player Two by Ernest ClineIn a sequel to Ready Player One, Wade Watts discovers a technological advancement and goes on a new quest. |
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| 12. Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O'FarrellAn imagined exploration of how the death of an 11-year-old boy to the Black Plague in 1596 might have affected a famous playwright and his wife. |
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| 13. Outlawed by Anna NorthAda, who apprentices midwifery under her mother, must decide whether to aid a band of outlaws who want to create a safe haven for outcast women. |
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| 14. Deadly Cross by James PattersonThe 28th book in the Alex Cross series. An investigation of a double homicide sends Alex Cross to Alabama. |
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| 15. The Guest List by Lucy FoleyA wedding between a TV star and a magazine publisher on an island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly. |
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