New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers May 9, 2021 1. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town. 2. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman The poem read on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem. 3. Ocean Prey by John Sandford The 31st book in the Prey series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters. 4. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West. 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. 6. 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. 7. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro An "Artificial Friend" named Klara is purchased to serve as a companion to an ailing 14-year-old girl. 8. Lover Unveiled by J. R. Ward The 19th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Sahvage and Mae fight against what she unleashed.  9. The Red Book by James Patterson and David Ellis The second book in the Black Book thriller series. Chicago detective Billy Harney investigates his own past. 10. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The 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. 11. The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth Past secrets come up when Fern decides to pay back her twin sister, Rose, by having a baby for her. 12. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright A previously unpublished novel by the author of Native Son, with an afterword by his grandson Malcom Wright. A Black man named Fred Daniels is tortured by the police until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. 13. Win by Harlan Coben Windsor Horne Lockwood III might rectify cold cases connected to his family that have eluded the F.B.I. for decades. 14. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner An aspiring historian in London finds a clue that might put to rest unsolved apothecary murders from 200 years ago. 15. Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney The foundation of a marriage between actors is shaken when they reunite with an old friend who is now a TV star. © 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 May 9, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 24, 2021.