New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
April 18, 2021

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
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. 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.
8. Life After Death
by Sister Souljah

In a sequel to The Coldest Winter Ever, Winter Santiaga emerges after time served and seeks revenge.
9. 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.
10. Sunflower Sisters
by Martha Hall Kelly

During the Civil War, sisters Georgeanna and Eliza join the war effort together while sisters Jemma and Patience are enslaved on separate plantations.
11. Eternal
by Lisa Scottoline

Three people involved in a love triangle find everything they hold dear is tested as Mussolini's power grows and laws change in Rome.
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. Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia

Jeanette, the daughter of a Cuban immigrant, takes in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE and seeks to learn about her own family history.
14. We Begin at the End
by Chris Whitaker

Trouble might start for the chief of police and a self-proclaimed outlaw teenager when a man is released from prison.
15. A Court of Silver Flames
by Sarah J. Maas

The fifth book in A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Nesta Archeron is forced into close quarters with a warrior named Cassian.
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A version of this list appears in the April 18, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 3, 2021.