New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
May 16, 2021

1. Sooley
by John Grisham

Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
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. Finding Ashley
by Danielle Steel

Two estranged sisters, one a former best-selling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Whereabouts
by Jhumpa Lahiri

A woman who feels lost in life finds solace in the city she calls home and gets a new outlook while visiting the sea.
9. 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.
10. Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good
by Timothy Zahn

In this Star Wars saga, Thrawn and the Expansionary Defense Fleet discover how their enemy truly operates.
11. A Distant Shore
by Karen Kingsbury

A secret agent with the F.B.I. and a young woman betrothed by her father to a drug lord pretend to be in love for a mission.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Fugitive Telemetry
by Martha Wells

The sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series. When a dead body turns up on Preservation Station, Murderbot must speak to humans.
15. Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
by Elin Hilderbrand

A collection of stories and other writing inspired by the work of the late author Dorothea Benton Frank.
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A version of this list appears in the May 16, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 1, 2021.
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